Add These New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books to Your August Reading List
For whatever quirky reason, August 2023 is particularly robust on two fronts: short-story collections, and retellings that shed new light…
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NASA Detects ‘Heartbeat’ Message From Voyager 2 After Inadvertently Losing Contact
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, currently 12.4 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) from Earth, has phoned home, essentially telling mission controllers…
Firefox fixes a flurry of flaws in the first of two releases this month
No zero-days, but some interesting patches with their very own "teachable moments".
Apple Users Open to Remote Control via Tricky macOS Malware
The Hidden Virtual Network Computing (hVNC) malware infests Macs and silently executes complete takeovers, with no user permission needed. It…
Threat Actors Exploiting Ivanti EPMM Vulnerabilities
SUMMARY The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Norwegian National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NO) are releasing this joint…
CISA and International Partner NCSC-NO Release Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Threat Actors Exploiting Ivanti EPMM Vulnerabilities
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Norwegian National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NO) have released a joint Cybersecurity…
Space-Scanning Algorithm Spots ‘Potentially Hazardous’ 600-Foot Asteroid
An asteroid-hunting algorithm set to be implemented in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 10-year survey spotted its first potentially hazardous…
Trolls Hijack Twitter CEO’s Old Username After Twitter Didn’t Lock It
Elon Musk announced he was changing Twitter’s name to X In the last week of July, reflecting the billionaire’s life-long…
OceanGate Co-Founder Wants to Send 1,000 People to Venus—What Could Go Wrong?
Just a few short weeks after OceanGate’s own CEO perished along with four others in an implosion of the Titan…
‘DarkBERT’ GPT-Based Malware Trains Up on the Entire Dark Web
The DarkBART and DarkBERT cybercriminal chatbots, based on Google Bard, represent a major leap ahead for adversarial AI, including Google…