4+ week, 23+ hour ago   (56+ words) Honestly, this is a pretty good example of one fairly simple way that facts can change. That Pluto was a planet was a fact until we decided / learned / discovered that there were too many similar bodies in the solar system…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (379+ words) App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming. As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that…...

4+ day, 5+ min ago   (426+ words) The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life. Níckolas de Aguiar Alves, a physicist at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil, had first watched Next Generation as a Master’s student. When he got to…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (116+ words) A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors. A nearly identical exploit kit that targets critical vulnerabilities in both Chromium-based browsers and older versions of Windows is being actively used by at least four…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (683+ words) Apple’s first foldable can be yours next month. Apple ended today’s hardware event with one of its classic “One more thing” reveals. Some smartphone makers have been offering foldable phones for the better part of a decade, but Apple has…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (481+ words) “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” When a prominent researcher quits a job at a frontier AI lab these days, it’s often to pursue a new startup or protest a new business model. But AI researcher…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (339+ words) Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant. On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (744+ words) LG TVs are facing scrutiny due to a video seemingly showing the devices’ capability to track users when the TVs are off. YouTube channel Gamers Nexus worked with Level1Techs, a technology-focused YouTube channel, and security researchers to analyze LG TVs’ tracking…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (369+ words) Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks. Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. Dustin Childs, a…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (384+ words) Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls’ Instagram pics. “If Meta’s ad approval process can’t detect and reject such obviously horrific content before it is shown to Facebook and Instagram users, then Meta’s whole ad review system…...