Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland
In a recent study, University of Alaska Fairbanks paleontologist Matthew Wooller and his colleagues radiocarbon-dated what they thought were pieces…
February 2026
Inside Modern API Attacks: What We Learn from the 2026 API ThreatStats Report
API security has been a growing concern for years. However, while it was always seen as important, it often came…
Looks a lot like an electric station wagon: the 2026 Toyota bZ Woodland
Toyota provided flights from Columbus, Ohio to Santa Barbara, California and accommodation so Ars could drive the Woodland bZ. Ars…
Grok Faces EU-Wide Fallout After Ireland Opens Formal Inquiry into Generated Sexual Images
Ireland has officially opened a data protection investigation into X after Grok was accused of generating non-consensual sexual images of…
99% of adults over 40 have shoulder “abnormalities” on an MRI, study finds
Up to a third of people worldwide have shoulder pain; it’s one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints. But medical…
Fake ‘Olympics Shop’ Ads on Meta Lead Netizens to Cloned Websites Promising 80% Off Merch
Bitdefender Labs is tracking an ongoing scam campaign on Meta platforms targeting people in the EU and the US, using…
Google Addresses Actively Exploited Chrome Vulnerability CVE-2026-2441
The discovery of CVE-2026-2441 reveals a critical zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome that is actively being exploited in the wild.…
Poorly crafted phishing campaign leverages bogus security incident report
Attackers used a fake PDF incident report hosted on AWS to scare victims into enabling 2FA, though a poorly crafted…
SmartLoader Attack Uses Trojanized Oura MCP Server to Deploy StealC Infostealer
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new SmartLoader campaign that involves distributing a trojanized version of a Model Context…
Side-Channel Attacks Against LLMs
Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. “Remote Timing Attacks on Efficient Language Model Inference“: Abstract: Scaling…