This post originally ran on Tedium, our zine designer Ernie Smith’s wonderful website and newsletter about the Dull Side of the Internet. Check it out here. I write a lot these days, but my path into journalism, going way back to J-School, was through layout. For years, I was a graphic designer at a number…
Scientists have discovered million-year-old artifacts made by a mysterious group of early humans on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, according to a breakthrough study published on Wednesday in Nature. The extraordinary find pushes the archaeological record of Sulawesi back by about 800,000 years, and confirms that hominins, the broader family to which humans belong, crossed…
A leading French university is inviting American scientists who fear their research on subjects like climate might be censored by Donald Trump’s administration to do their work in France. “The program is called ‘safe place for science,’ and will provide 15 million Euros in funding for some 15 researchers over a 3-year period,” Clara Bufi,…
Critical zero-day vulnerability CVE-2024-40891 in Zyxel CPE devices is under active attack, affecting 1,500+ devices.
State-sponsored cyber warfare and its threat to critical infrastructure, zero-trust models, platform consolidation and quantum safety will be key topics for the year ahead
For the past two months I’ve been following a Telegram community tricking Grok into generating nonconsensual sexual images and videos of real people with increasingly convoluted methods. As countless images on X over the last week once again showed us, it doesn’t take much to get Elon Musk’s “based” AI model to create nonconsensual images….
SLAP and FLOP exploit speculative execution, a performance optimization technique used in modern CPUs to predict and execute instructions ahead of time.
Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump’s budget cuts all threaten US security. In an exit interview with WIRED, former CISA head Jen Easterly argues for her agency’s survival.
New details have emerged about a phishing campaign targeting Chrome browser extension developers that led to the compromise of at least thirty-five extensions to inject data-stealing code, including those from cybersecurity firm Cyberhaven. […]
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. Critics of YouTuber Ethan Klein are pushing back on subpoenas that would reveal their identities as part of an ongoing legal fight between Klein and his detractors. Klein is a popular content creator whose…
