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Blind Eagles Five Clusters Target Colombia Using RATs, Phishing Lures, and Dynamic DNS Infra
The Hacker News - 27 Aug 2025 16:58
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five distinct activity clusters linked to a persistent threat actor known as Blind Eagle between May 2024 and July 2025. These attacks, observed by Recorded Future Insikt Group, ...
Starship Nails 10th Test Flight, Putting SpaceX Back on Track
Gizmodo - 27 Aug 2025 02:44
SpaceX has returned to the winning column, with Starship Flight 10 going down about as well as the company could have hoped.
European banks hit by rogue PayPal payments worth 'billions'
BBC - 27 Aug 2025 17:38
Local media said German lenders had reported millions of suspicious direct debits from the payment firm.
AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war
The Register - 28 Aug 2025 01:23
China would be a $50 billion a year market for Nvidia if Uncle Sam would let us sell competitive products, says Jensen Huang Nvidia's top brass urged Washington to approve the sale of Blackwell accelerators to China ...
Silver State Goes Dark as Cyberattack Knocks Nevada Websites Offline
Slashdot - 28 Aug 2025 01:20
Nevada has been crippled by a cyberattack that began on August 24, taking down state websites, intermittently disabling phone lines, and forcing offices like the DMV to close. The Register reports: The Office of Governor...
Someone Created First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI's gpt-oss:20b Model
The Hacker News - 28 Aug 2025 00:37
Cybersecurity company ESET has disclosed that it discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ransomware variant codenamed PromptLock. Written in Golang, the newly identified strain uses the gpt-oss:20b model from ...
OpenAI Admits Safety Controls Degrade, As Wrongful Death Lawsuit Grabs Headlines
Gizmodo - 28 Aug 2025 00:28
California couple Maria and Matt Raine say that ChatGPT assisted in the suicide of their 16-year-old son, Adam.
4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over Its Age Verification Law
Slashdot - 28 Aug 2025 00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: 4chan and Kiwi Farms sued the United Kingdom's Office of Communications (Ofcom) over its age verification law in U.S. federal court Wednesday, fulfilling a promise ...
Taiwan indicts three over alleged theft of TSMC trade secrets
The Register - 27 Aug 2025 17:56
Chipmaker keen to protect assets as race for 2nm process heats up Taiwanese prosecutors have charged three people over the alleged theft of TSMC's trade secrets.
Algae bloom chlorophyll South Australia
ESA - 27 Aug 2025 17:18
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows high concentrations of chlorophyll in yellow-green along the coastline of South Australia, near Adelaide. Chlorophyll-a is a key indicator of the presence of algae in the oce...
Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents Could Be the Future of Ambient Lighting
Gizmodo - 27 Aug 2025 17:00
A surprisingly simple trick is helping scientists make succulent leaves shine brighter than ever, giving these favorite houseplants a new glow.
ESA and JAXA advance potential Apophis mission collaboration
ESA - 27 Aug 2025 16:00
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has requested funding to participate in the European Space Agencys (ESA) Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses).
Warped spacetime with surprise 'double-zoom' reveals radiation around distant supermassive black hole
SPACE.com - 27 Aug 2025 15:00
A happy coincidence and a theory first put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago helped scientists detect faint radiation around a distant supermassive black hole.
14-year prison term sought over theft of trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process [U]
9 to 5 Mac - 27 Aug 2025 14:33
Six people have been arrested after Apple chipmaker TSMC said that several then-employees tried to steal trade secrets relating to the companys most advanced chip process. TSMC fired the individuals concerned and is now ...
Infostealers: The Silent Smash-and-Grab Driving Modern Cybercrime
SecurityWeek - 27 Aug 2025 14:30
Competition among malware-as-a-service developers has transformed infostealers into refined, accessible tools for cybercriminals worldwide. The post Infostealers: The Silent Smash-and-Grab Driving Modern Cybercrime appea...
What a difference 2 years makes: MariaDB buys back SkySQL
The Register - 27 Aug 2025 14:25
Because the DBaaS has lately become AI-tastic, among other things It's less than two years since MariaDB spun out SkySQL, but it's already unspinning the database-as-a-service outfit, which has since been marinat...
Anthropic Just Launched A Claude Agent For The Chrome Browser, But Most Users Can't Have It
BGR - 27 Aug 2025 14:02
These are only the early days for the Claude agent to help you with the content you're browsing. Not all subscribers will have access to Claude for Chrome.
ChatGPT hates LA Chargers fans
The Register - 28 Aug 2025 01:59
Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user's inferred politics and other affiliations OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of th...
Caltech breakthrough makes quantum memory last 30 times longer
Science Daily - 28 Aug 2025 01:49
While superconducting qubits are great at fast calculations, they struggle to store information for long periods. A team at Caltech has now developed a clever solution: converting quantum information into sound waves. By...
Microsoft Is Fixing One Of Windows 11's Most Annoying Bluetooth Issues
BGR - 28 Aug 2025 01:43
If you're sick of audio quality dropping every time you try to chat on a Bluetooth headset on Windows 11, this is the update for you.
WhatsApp starts testing AI-powered writing suggestions on iOS [U: launched]
9 to 5 Mac - 28 Aug 2025 01:39
Update, Aug 27: The feature was officially launched today for English-speaking users, according to the official WhatsApp blog. Original post below. In the latest TestFlight release for its iOS beta testers, WhatsApp roll...
Todays hottest foldable phones come from Samsung and Motorola
Android Authority - 28 Aug 2025 01:36
Whether you want your smartphone fo fold out or in, these deals are too hot to ignore.