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Hong Kongs newest anti-scam technology is over-the-counter banking
The Register - 31 Dec 2025 04:57
Funds in Money Safe accounts are only available when customers appear for face-to-face verification Hong Kongs banks have a new weapon against scams: Accounts that require customers to visit a branch to access their fund...
NASA Probe Captures Postcard of Mars That Blends Day and Night
PetaPixel - 31 Dec 2025 12:18Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong
The Register - 31 Dec 2025 11:02
El Reg speculates about what GPUzilla really gets out of the deal This summer, AI chip startup Groq raised $750 million at a valuation of $6.9 billion. Just three months later, Nvidia celebrated the holidays by dropping ...
Cybersecurity pros admit to moonlighting as ransomware scum
The Register - 31 Dec 2025 01:46
Pair became ALPHV affiliates to prey on US-based clients A ransomware negotiator and a security incident response manager have admitted to running ransomware attacks.
Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack Led to $8.5 Million Trust Wallet Heist
SecurityWeek - 31 Dec 2025 11:58
The worm exposed Trust Wallets Developer GitHub secrets, allowing attackers to publish a backdoor extension and steal funds from 2,520 wallets. The post Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack Led to $8.5 Million Trust Wallet Hei...
U.S. Treasury Lifts Sanctions on Three Individuals Linked to Intellexa and Predator Spyware
The Hacker News - 31 Dec 2025 10:47
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday removed three individuals linked to the Intellexa Consortium, the holding company behind a commercial spyware known as Predator...
Trumps golden phone is delayed. Again.
Mashable - 31 Dec 2025 10:08
Trump Mobile has yet again delayed shipping of its flagship device, the T1, according to a report by the Financial Times.
European Space Agency Confirms Breach After Hacker Offers to Sell Data
SecurityWeek - 31 Dec 2025 09:35
The European Space Agency is conducting an investigation and says external science servers have been compromised. The post European Space Agency Confirms Breach After Hacker Offers to Sell Data appeared first on Security...
'Foreign Tech Workers Are Avoiding Travel To the US'
Slashdot - 31 Dec 2025 02:02
In an opinion piece for Computerworld, columnist Steven Vaughan-Nichols argues that restrictive visa policies and a hostile border climate under the Trump administration are driving foreign tech workers, researchers, and...
LG announces new line of xboom speakers ahead of CES
Engadget - 31 Dec 2025 01:00New Yorks incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party
The Register - 31 Dec 2025 00:31
Zohran Mamdani appears not to understand that smartphones can be used for evil New Yorks mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has invited the citys residents to join him at a block party to celebrate his inauguration but told atte...
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Mashable - 31 Dec 2025 23:00
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Trust Wallet Chrome Extension Hack Drains $8.5M via Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack
The Hacker News - 31 Dec 2025 21:59
Trust Wallet on Tuesday revealed that the second iteration of the Shai-Hulud (aka Sha1-Hulud) supply chain outbreak in November 2025 was likely responsible for the hack of its Google Chrome extension, ultimately resultin...
DarkSpectre Browser Extension Campaigns Exposed After Impacting 8.8 Million Users Worldwide
The Hacker News - 31 Dec 2025 21:44
The threat actor behind two malicious browser extension campaigns, ShadyPanda and GhostPoster, has been attributed to a third attack campaign codenamed DarkSpectre that has impacted 2.2 million users of Google Chrome, Mi...
Amazon Has Big Changes Planned For 2026 - Here's What To Look For
BGR - 31 Dec 2025 21:17
Every major business aims to outperform itself each year, which typically means a lot of new initiatives, which can both benefit and hurt consumers.
NJ's Answer To Flooding: It Has Bought Out and Demolished 1,200 Properties
Slashdot - 31 Dec 2025 21:15
New Jersey has found its answer to the relentless flooding that has plagued the state's coastal and inland communities for decades: buy the homes, demolish them and turn the land back into open space permanently. The...
Reading for the New Year
The New Yorker - 31 Dec 2025 21:00
The first installment in a series of recommendations by New Yorker writers.
25 good things that happened in 2025
Mashable - 31 Dec 2025 20:33
This year had its share of negative news, but here's our selection of the good, positive, upbeat and uplifting stories you may be craving.
NASA Craft To Face Heat-Shield Test on Its First Astronaut Flight Next Year
Slashdot - 31 Dec 2025 20:30
An anonymous reader shares a report: Getting to space is hard. In many ways, getting back is even harder. NASA soon aims to pull off the kind of re-entry it last conducted more than 50 years ago: safely returning astrona...
Instagram chief: AI is so ubiquitous 'it will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media'
Engadget - 31 Dec 2025 20:26Sigma in 2025: The Best Performance of Any Photo Company This Year
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Slash Gear - 31 Dec 2025 20:15
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