This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss companies’ responses to being monitored by an ICE contractor, caring about the little things, weight loss drug ads, and how our SXSW shindig went. JOSEPH: This week…
Dakota State’s Cyber Academy made the trip down to Sioux Falls and the CTE Academy, giving students hands-on experience in cybersecurity activities.
Moltbook is a “social media” site for AI agents that’s captured the public’s imagination over the last few days. Billed as the “front page of the agent internet,” Moltbook is a place where AI agents interact independently of human control, and whose posts have repeatedly gone viral because a certain set of AI users have…
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Humans may be tiny compared to the immensity of Earth, but our activity can alter its dynamics on a planetary scale—for good and ill. Scientists have even discovered that Earth’s rotation…
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. 4chan and Kiwi Farms sued the United Kingdom’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) over its age verification law in U.S. federal court Wednesday, fulfilling a promise it announced on August 23. In the lawsuit, 4chan…
The breach reportedly exploited Maager-Tec’s interfaces, which are responsible for emergency button systems at various institutions across Israel.
Last week, the Financial Times reported that Nintendo shifted half of its production capabilities for the upcoming Switch 2 to Cambodia and Vietnam, in part to avoid Donald Trump’s trade war on China. Wednesday morning, Nintendo formally announced the Switch 2, and its $449 price, which is $150 more than the Switch. A few hours…
The Dow Jones held up best out of major indexes on the stock market today. Nvidia plunged due to concerns of China AI lab DeepSeek.
In the fourth of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops explores threat actors’ real-world criminal business interests
SLAP and FLOP exploit speculative execution, a performance optimization technique used in modern CPUs to predict and execute instructions ahead of time.
