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AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives

Samara January 2, 2025

Kip Meintzer, an executive at security company Check Point Software Technologies, told a recent investor…

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Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist

Samara January 2, 2025

Back in 2019, we told you about an intriguing experiment to test a famous anthropological…

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The perfect New Year’s Eve comedy turns 30

Samara December 31, 2024

There aren't that many movies specifically set on New Year's Eve, but one of the…

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Manta rays inspire faster swimming robots and better water filters

Samara December 31, 2024

This robot can also dive and come back to the surface. Faster flapping results in…

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Power company hid illegal crypto mine that may have caused outages

Samara December 30, 2024

But Russia presumably gets no taxes on illegal crypto mining, and power outages can be…

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Evolution journal editors resign en masse

Samara December 30, 2024

Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier's Journal…

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Frogfish reveals how it evolved the “fishing rod” on its head

Samara December 30, 2024

In most bony fish, or teleosts, motor neurons for fins are found on the sides…

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Trump told SCOTUS he plans to make a deal to save TikTok

Samara December 30, 2024

Several members of Congress— Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Representative…

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Whistleblower finds unencrypted location data for 800,000 VW EVs

Samara December 30, 2024

Connected cars are great—at least until some company leaves unencrypted location data on the Internet…

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Ten cool science stories we almost missed

Samara December 30, 2024

For their study, Yudkin et al. compiled a dataset of nearly 370,000 AITA posts, along…

Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee

Heartbreaking video shows deadly risk of skipping measles vaccine

Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked

OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure

Google accidentally reveals Android’s Material 3 Expressive interface ahead of I/O

Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack

Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee

Heartbreaking video shows deadly risk of skipping measles vaccine

Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked

OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure

Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee

Heartbreaking video shows deadly risk of skipping measles vaccine

Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked

OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure

AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives

Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist

The perfect New Year’s Eve comedy turns 30

Manta rays inspire faster swimming robots and better water filters

Power company hid illegal crypto mine that may have caused outages

Evolution journal editors resign en masse

Frogfish reveals how it evolved the “fishing rod” on its head

Whistleblower finds unencrypted location data for 800,000 VW EVs

Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee

Heartbreaking video shows deadly risk of skipping measles vaccine

Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked

OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure