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The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission made it to Houston today (Jan. 16), just a day after their unprecedented medical evacuation from the International Space Station.

China suffered a pair of launch failures Friday, seeing the loss of a classified Shijian satellite and the failed first launch of the Ceres-2 rocket The post China hit by dual launch failures as Long March 3B and Ceres-2...

Google Fast Pair makes pairing easy, but a flawed implementation has created a serious security risk.

Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantirs app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Last week, Nicholas Moore, 24, a resident of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking into the U.S. Supreme Court's electronic document filing ...

In December 2024 the Google Threat Intelligence Group published research on the code of the commercial spyware "Predator". But there's now been new research by Jamf (the company behind a mobile device managem...

Ukrainian and German law enforcement authorities have identified two Ukrainians suspected of working for the Russia-linked ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group Black Basta. In addition, the group's alleged leader, a ...

Ars Technica reports: Security firm Mandiant [part of Google Cloud] has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft's NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge ...

OpenAI on Friday said it would start showing ads in ChatGPT to logged-in adult U.S. users in both the free and ChatGPT Go tiers in the coming weeks, as the artificial intelligence (AI) company expanded access to its low-...

The state of Missouri now requires internet users to verify their age before accessing certain types of websites, leading to an increase in demand for VPNs.

A recent Microsoft Patch Tuesday update has introduced a bug in Windows 11 23H2 that causes some PCs to refuse to shut down or hibernate, "no matter how many times you try," reports The Register. From the report:...

The Trump administration urged the largest electricity grid in the U.S. to make big tech companies pay for new power plants to support the surging electricity demand from AI and data centers. CNBC reports: Electricity pr...

Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow OpenAI's budget ChatGPT Go subscription tier has migrated to the US, soon to be accompanied by advertising. The company's free tier will be similarly afflicted.

As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes "educated guesses" on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances "we think will drive progress or incite the most change - for better or worse ...

If you are looking to keep track of your vitals at an affordable price, then the Wyze Scale Ultra BodyScan needs to be on your radar.

For those who don't want a big desktop PC or even a video game console, a gaming laptop is the way to go. How do these options from Razer and Alienware compare?

A new census of more than 8,000 galaxies finds active black holes rising in frequency with galaxy mass, jumping sharply in galaxies similar in mass to the Milky Way.

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Don't throw out your old webcam - not when you can use it as the backbone of a cheap home security camera system that you can setup in just a few minutes.

In September 2025, a video of Waymo car driving onto a golf course was widely shared. Now, one was reportedly parked in a bike lane in Denver, Colorado.