🌘 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 made fires as early as 400,000 years ago, pushing the timeline of this crucial human innovation back a staggering 350,000 years, reports a study published on Wednesday in Nature. Mastery…
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Hoopla, a service that provides public libraries around the country with ebooks, announced that it will do more to prevent the spread of low quality AI-generated books after a 404 Media investigation showed that they were common on its platform. “At hoopla, customer satisfaction is at the core of everything we do, and we deeply…
SonicWall has credited Microsoft for reporting CVE-2025-23006, a critical remote command execution vulnerability possibly exploited in the wild.
Tech giants are pouring capital into projects to create artificial minds on a staggering scale
ENISA announces support of the EU action plan, addresses proposed role to safeguard cybersecurity of health sector.
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.
The SVG file format can harbor malicious HTML, scripts, and malware
Growing sophistication of medical devices make it likely that 2025 will be another challenging year for cybersecurity and medical devices.
“Geopolitical dynamics are a key driver of this volatility” in Nvidia stock and its peers.
