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…
Clever coding and graphical compromises get a classic game on more classic hardware. Last month, we passed along Modern Vintage Gamer’s (MVG) confident assertion that Doom is functionally impossible to run on the Neo Geo, owing to the console’s sprite-based display hardware and lack of a frame buffer. We…
“Context bombing” tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm. Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A well-phrased command sneaked into an email…
New climate evidence adds context to these long voyages. The same question drives both the plot of Moana and decades of archaeological research: Why, after centuries of relative stability, did Polynesian voyagers suddenly begin settling islands thousands of kilometers away across the Pacific? The latest Moana movie is a…
It’s unclear how the planet avoided its star’s bloated red giant stage. WD 1856 b is the only confirmed case of a planet that survived the death of a Sun-like star. It’s a Jupiter-size world orbiting a white dwarf—the burned-out remnant of a Sun-like star. Now, a team of…
