Feds charge 16 Russians allegedly tied to botnets used in cyberattacks and spying

The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, ...
Read more
In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

By late 2021, major updates for Windows’ built-in Notepad text editor had been so rare for so long that a ...
Read more
Planet found orbiting backward between two stars

And, critically, the entire orbit is within the orbit of the smaller companion star. The gravitational forces of a tight ...
Read more
RFK Jr. calls WHO “moribund” amid US withdrawal; China pledges to give $500M

“WHO’s priorities have increasingly reflected the biases and interests of corporate medicine,” Kennedy said, alluding to his anti-vaccine and germ-theory ...
Read more
AMD’s $299 Radeon RX 9060 XT brings 8GB or 16GB of RAM to fight the RTX 5060

AMD didn’t provide much by way of performance comparisons, but it’s promising that the cards have the same number of ...
Read more
FCC chairman celebrates court loss in case over Biden-era diversity rule

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr celebrated an FCC court loss yesterday after a ruling that struck down Biden-era diversity ...
Read more
Biotech company Regeneron to buy bankrupt 23andMe for $256M

Biotechnology company Regeneron will acquire 23andMe out of bankruptcy for $256 million, with a plan to keep the DNA-testing company ...
Read more
Experts alarmed over Trump’s promotion of deep-sea mining in international waters

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. ...
Read more
Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs

This week, Spotify rushed to remove hundreds of obviously fake podcasts found to be marketing prescription drugs in violation of ...
Read more
Sierra made the games of my childhood. Are they still fun to play?

Like the acorn example above, we had known what to do—we had just not done it to the game’s rather ...
Read more