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Monday September 15, 2025. 12:10 AM
'There has never been a successful, widespread malware attack against iPhone,' notes Apple's security blog, pointing out that 'The only system-level iOS attacks we observe in the wild come from mercenary spyware... historically associated with state actors and [using]...
Sunday September 14, 2025. 10:34 PM
The oldest person living in Japan is 114 years old, reports the BBC. But 'The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has risen to a record high of nearly 100,000, its government has announced.' Setting a new record for the 55th year in a row, the number of centenarians...
'When residents of Equatorial Guinea's Annobón island wrote to the government in Malabo in July last year complaining about the dynamite explosions by a Moroccan construction company, they didn't expect the swift end to their internet access...' reports the Associated Press. ...
America's Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Amazon and Google misled advertisers placing ads on their websites, reports Bloomberg, and specifically whether the two companies 'properly disclosed the terms and pricing for ads.' The FTC is seeking details about...
Many coral reefs 'have now turned ghostly white,' reports CBS News — and 'a major culprit is climate change.' SFGate adds that more than 50% of the world's coral reefs have been lost, mostly over the past 10 years, according to coral reef scientist Rebecca Albright at the...
TechCrunch reports: Thanks to a pledge to unbundle its corporate messaging app Teams from its productivity suites, Microsoft has managed to slip unscathed through a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in massive fines for the...
One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere,' reports ScienceAlert. 'In exciting new JWST observations, the Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e shows hints of a gaseous envelope similar to our own,...
'Facebook users who filed a claim in parent company Meta's $725 million settlement related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal may soon get a payment,' reports CNN, since 'on August 27, the court ordered that settlement benefits be distributed.' It's been over two years since ...
They stole a woman's phone in Barcelona. Unfortunately, her husband was security consultant/penetration tester Martin Vigo, reports Spain's newspaper El Pais. 'His weeks-long investigation coincided with a massive two-year police operation between 2022 and 2024 in six...
TIOBE attempts to calculate programming language popularity using the number of skilled engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. And the eight most popular languages in September's rankings haven't changed since last month: 1. Python 2. C++ 3. C 4. Java 5. C# 6....
After its six-year journey to Saturn's moon Titan, Dragonfly's rotorcraft lander 'will fly like a large drone,' explains its web page, spending three years sampling multiple landing sites to characterize Titan's habitability and look for 'precursors of the origin of life.'...
Paramount and Comcast's NBCUniversal are joining Microsoft in telling employees 'they could face consequences if they don't return to the office more frequently,' reports the Washington Post: NBCUniversal sent a memo to its employees telling them to return to the office four ...
Last week Steam and other major storefronts crashed, reports the Guardian, including Nintendo's eShop, PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store. They were all 'unable to cope with the demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong, the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed 2017...
Saturday September 13, 2025. 10:34 PM
Finland's second-largest university has announced new research suggesting that heart attacks could be an infectious disease. [T]he research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbor a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm...
It was 'little more than empty fields' five years ago — but it's now 'a vast, heavily guarded complex stretching for 210 hectares (520 acres),' reports the Guardian, 'the frontline of a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry fuelled by human trafficking and brutal violen...
'The United Arab Emirates wants to compete with the U.S. and China in AI,' writes Gizmodo, 'and a new open source model may be its strongest contender yet. 'An Emirati AI lab called the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released K2 Think on Tuesday, a model that...
The Washington Post notes that past research 'indicates that exercise helps some cancer survivors avoid recurrence of their disease.' But a new study 'offers an explanation of how, showing that exercise changes the inner workings of our muscles and cells, although more study ...
'Freelance developers and entire companies are making a business out of fixing shoddy vibe coded software,' writes 404 Media, interviewing one of the 'dozens of people on Fiverr... now offering services specifically catering to people with shoddy vibe coded projects.' Hamid...
In 2015 Kim Dotcom answered questions from Slashdot's readers. Now CBS News reports on 'the latest chapter in a protracted 13-year battle by the U.S. government' to extradite Finnish-German millionaire Kim Dotcom from New Zealand: A New Zealand court has rejected the latest...
ScienceDaily reports: Forever chemicals known as PFAS have turned up in an unexpected place: beer. Researchers tested 23 different beers from across the U.S. and found that 95% contained PFAS, with the highest concentrations showing up in regions with known water...
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