Old and forgotten “shims” Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple. An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discovery was made by researchers at…
US military’s drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again. For the first time in its history, the US military sent explosive-laden drone boats into combat by attacking an Iranian midget submarine and naval port. The unprecedented use of such kamikaze sea drones by the…
Conductive ink is painted directly onto the skin in colorful custom designs, drying into working electrodes. Credit: Wanqing Zhang Credit: Wanqing Zhang Scientists at Pennsylvania State University have developed a novel conductive ink that can be painted directly onto the skin in colorful custom designs, turning into a functional…
This flight will put Starship under higher pressure and test out new Starlink satellites in orbit. The next test flight of SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster could take off as soon as Thursday, and much of the hour-long mission will look a lot like the last Starship…
With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant. The federal government is warning users of home and small office routers to secure their devices as Russia state hackers continue to mass-compromise them for use in obscuring nefarious actions against sensitive organizations in the public…
Ukraine’s drone blitz halted Russia’s Sea of Azov shipping in under a week. Ukrainian drone strikes have forced Russia to completely halt shipping in the Sea of Azov in less than a week—showing once again how a country without traditional naval power can still effectively blockade maritime corridors. Ukraine’s…
There’s a separate $1,750 rebate for used EVs, but both rebates have a price cap. At the end of last September, electric vehicle adoption in the US began to crater. That followed the abolition of the IRS clean vehicle tax credit as part of a series of moves by…
OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets. Apple is gunning for OpenAI, demanding steep penalties after stumbling on a “rare” bug that temporarily allowed a poached employee that joined OpenAI to maintain access to confidential information on Apple servers for weeks after his termination.…
New study confirms 2024 “momentum flux theory” on how angular momentum of water flows drives rotation. Watering your lawn in the summer can be both pragmatic and fun with so-called “silly sprinklers,” designed to create amusing loops and spirals of water jets. And there’s some fascinating physics at work…
The biggest smartphone makers keep on trucking in the face of component shortages and economic uncertainty. Smartphone shipments started to plateau a few years back, ending the days of guaranteed double-digit growth for any company that wanted to make phones. Fewer smartphone manufacturers exist today, and they’re facing new…
