Even if you’re not an anxious flyer, booking a plane trip can sometimes feel like rolling the dice. Will you make the tight-turnaround connecting flight? Will your carry on fit in the overhead bin? Will you end up stuck, waiting in the terminal or worse—on the tarmac? And honestly, the odds aren’t great. So far in…
In the first blog post, we introduced you to the Nike Shoe Bot (NSB), one of the most dangerous scalping bots around. We outlined its purpose, its behavior, and described how we recovered its source code. In this blog post, we will take a closer look at the bot’s source code, and determine what information […]
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It’s springtime in the tech world, so birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and the Apple campus is getting ready for its annual developer conference. WWDC 2023 is happening June 5 at Apple’s spaceship HQ in Cupertino. Following this month’s Google I/O, WWDC is where we’ll learn about what’s coming up for the…
Researchers have identified a gene that is associated with taller noses in humans and found it likely comes from Neanderthals, an extinct hominin group intimately related to our own species.
After the American Motion Picture and Television Producers union failed to offer acceptable counters and terms to the Writers Guild of America, the WGA called a strike on May 2. Struck companies include Netflix, Amazon, Disney, and Apple, and will likely affect dozens of productions across the next few months.
Thanks to an inclusion in the omnibus spending package passed by Congress in December, the FDA has new authority to establish medical device security requirements for manufacturers. The Protecting and Transforming Cyber Healthcare (Patch) Act has been praised by healthcare organizations.
The ability of cyber-attackers to access a healthcare provider’s network environment through security gaps or vulnerabilities is increasing. And regrettably, Internet of Medical Things (IoMTs) and other devices may be severely affected when bad actors can travel laterally through a network – and have a a direct negative impact on patient care and safety.
Microsoft is treating Windows 11 more and more like a billboard bus, finding ways to stick advertisements for its services along every surface and armpit of its operating system. In addition to ads in the Start menu, the latest test build for Windows 11 includes notices for a Microsoft 365 trial and more in the…
We’ve heard about the benefits of reflective electronic paper displays time and again, so why aren’t there E Ink monitors for those who spend all their time on a computer reading, writing, or crunching numbers? The answer is that there are E Ink computer displays, but they come with a lot of trade-offs. Philips’ new …
Local police and federal law enforcement believe the shooter who rampaged through a crowded Texas mall leaving at least nine people dead over the weekend regularly viewed and posted far right-wing extremist content on social media and espoused sympathy for Neo-Nazis.
Battery Life—about a space traveler and a scavenger who join forces to survive the post-apocalypse—has an intriguing premise, but its backstory might be even cooler: authors Brennan Gilpatrick and Gregory Lang have been friends since the sixth grade, and decided to draw on their shared love of genre to write their…
