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Monday August 11, 2025. 07:21 AM
Last week saw the 80th anniversary of a turning point in World War II: the day America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 'Twelve men were on that flight...' remembers the online magazine Mental Floss, adding 'Almost all had something to say after the war.' The group was...
Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU Nvidia and AMD will reportedly be allowed to resume sales in China if they cough a license fee amounting to 15 percent of sales.…
Since 2023 the Python Software Foundation has had a Security Developer-in-Residence (sponsored by the Open Source Security Foundation's vulnerability-finding 'Alpha-Omega' project). And he's just published a new 11-page white paper about open source's 'phantom dependencies'...
PLUS: Huawei open sources its CUDA equivalent; China boosts brain-computer interfaces; Scientists to visit penguins Trump taxed; And more! Asia In Brief Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services will shed over 10,000 staff but will give pay rises to most of those who...
'What happens when cybercriminals stop thinking small and start thinking like a Fortune 500 company?' asks a blog post from Koi Security. 'You get GreedyBear, the attack group that just redefined industrial-scale crypto theft.' '150 weaponized Firefox extensions...
Imagine this. Lightning sparks a wildfire, but 'within seconds, a satellite dish swirling overhead picks up on the anomaly and triggers an alarm,' writes the Los Angeles Times. 'An autonomous helicopter takes flight and zooms toward the fire, using sensors to locate the...
PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more! Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro's Apex One endpoint security platform is under active exploitation, the company...
Sunday August 10, 2025. 11:25 PM
'It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam,' writes this report from ScienceDaily, 'and hurtling through space at the speed of light toward a black hole, on a mission to probe the very fabric of space and time and...
The Wall Street Journal has found 'dozens of instances in recent months in which ChatGPT made delusional, false and otherworldly claims to users who appeared to believe them.' For example, 'You're not crazy. You're cosmic royalty in human skin...' In one exchange lasting...
'Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers...' reports the Associated Press. 'Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard...
The BBC reports: A meteorite that crashed into a home in the U.S. is older than planet Earth, scientists have said... Researchers at the University of Georgia examined a fragment of the rock that pierced the roof of a home in the city of McDonough [30 miles south of Georgia, ...
Plasma 6.4.5 is coming September 9th, reports Neowin. But they also report that the KDE team is already focusing on other upcoming release: Starting with KDE Frameworks, KDE's collection of foundational libraries, version 6.18 promises to let you do something with that...
One of America's largest solar + battery storage projects 'is now fully online in Mojave, California,' reports Electrek: Arevon Energy's Eland Solar-plus-Storage Project combines 758 megawatts (MWdc) of solar with 300 MW/1,200 megawatt hours of battery storage. Eland 1...
Thursday saw the release of Rust 1.89.0 But this week the Rust Foundation also released its second comprehensive annual technology report. A Rust Foundation announcement shares some highlights: - Trusted Publishing [GitHub Actions authentication using cryptographically...
These WIRED-tested hearing aids are our top selections for seniors whose hearing has faded with age.
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If you want a great cheap Bluetooth speaker (or a pair) this is a new WIRED favorite.
Five pilot deployments are just a drop in the bucket, so it's time to turbo scale def con A DEF CON hacker walks into a small-town water facility…no, this is not the setup for a joke or a (super-geeky) odd-couple rom-com. It's a true story that happened at five utilities...
xA California man sued Microsoft Thursday over its plan to stop supporting Windows 10 on October 14th, reports Courthouse News Though Windows 11 was launched nearly four years ago, many of its billion or so worldwide users are clinging to the decade-old Windows 10......
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