A Magnetar Can Be Born When Two Neutron Stars Touch
Magnetars are neutron stars with magnetic fields a thousand times stronger than normal. One way that magnetars might form is through the merger of two small...
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Qilin and INC Ransomware Groups Exploit Palo Alto Networks Flaw to Bypass MFA
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that it's continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware actors. The activity...
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How Wearables Can Adapt When Pregnancy Changes a User’s Regular Baseline
Your smart ring or watch has many useful jobs, including learning your usual physiological patterns and showing you when they change. Resting heart rate, heart rate...
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Spreading Life to Bleached Coral
Coral bleaching is a major problem for ocean ecosystems as the ocean gets warmer. Researchers at Stanford have found a new method for regenerating bleached corals....
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The demo for city-flattening fighting game Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered is a roaring good time, no nostalgia required
Despite being a lover of the King of the Monsters, I was unfortunately too young to experience Pipeworks Software's Godzilla trilogy of 3D kaiju-fighters back its...
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I have neither the budget nor the inclination for a crystal encrusted RTX 5090, but Galax is releasing one anyway
These stones ain't no friends of mine.
Read moreUSN-8942-1: .NET vulnerabilities
Multiple security issues were discovered in .NET and this update includes new upstream .NET versions to fix these issues. .NET 8 has been updated to 8.0.32...
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An AI Agent Joined a Listserv of Top Internet Researchers. The Reply-All Chaos Is Still Unfolding
Hysteria over the agent's appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy.
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“It doesn’t have to always be triple-A”: Galactic Racer and Zero Company’s success has Lucasfilms wanting more smaller-scale Star Wars games
Star Wars: Galactic Racer has been fucking everywhere recently, seemingly both due to its actual quality as a game and also due to vast swathes of...
Read moreNASA Provides Progress Update on Moon Base Rovers
As NASA works to build the Moon Base, crewed and robotic lunar rovers will play a crucial role during early development through technology demonstrations, astronaut transport,...
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DeepSeek open-sources the inference engine behind its API. And Huawei gets equal billing with Nvidia.
DeepSeek has open-sourced the inference engine it uses to serve its models in production, a step it said last year The post DeepSeek open-sources the inference...
Read moreeMudhra intermediate CA compromise
Mozilla has announced that it has received a report that private keys associated with eight eMudhra intermediate certificates have been compromised: These keys could allow attackers...
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