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 data dumps, high stakes, and lizard brain screen time. JOSEPH: Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador is the…
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that overthrew the regime, survived outer space, smashed planets, and crafted an ancient mystery from clay. First, a queen gets sprayed with acid—and that’s not even the most horrifying part of the story. Then: a moss garden that is out of this world, the…
Here are some of the stocks Wall Street thinks will win under the Stargate joint venture.
Kids say they are using pictures of Trump, YouTuber Markiplier, and the G-Man from Half-Life to bypass newly integrated age restriction software in the VR game Gorilla Tag. Gorilla Tag is a popular game with a global reach and a young audience, which means it has to comply with complicated and contradictory laws aimed at…
The FBI has issued a new warning to disable local admin accounts as ongoing data-stealing attacks continue. Here’s what you need to know.
This article was produced with support from WIRED. A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wifi—“using the school network as a lab,” as he puts it—when he spotted a handful of mysterious devices…
Critical zero-day vulnerability CVE-2024-40891 in Zyxel CPE devices is under active attack, affecting 1,500+ devices.
Threat actor exploited phishing and OAuth abuse to inject malicious code
We’ve survived and thrived for two years and are ready to celebrate with you, the ones who made it possible! Come have a cocktail or locally-brewed beer on us at vertical farm and brew lab farm.one. We’ll also record a live podcast with the whole 404 crew, for the first time in person together since… well,…
The dawn of our fifth year deepens our understanding of the enemies at the gate, and some tensions inside it; plus, an anniversary gift from us to you
