Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
In 1965, a presidential advisory panel issued a report warning that pervasive chemical and carbon pollution was harming environmental health…
Category: Technology
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation.…
DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
On Monday, passengers aboard Delta flight 591 going from Las Vegas to Atlanta allegedly spoofed the onboard Wi-Fi, raising the…
Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species
Mount Toba was the biggest volcanic eruption in the last 2.6 million years, and some have suggested it nearly wiped…
Organ donation group accused of trying to take living man's organs faces shutdown
The US health department is working to shut down a Kentucky-based organ procurement organization that made headlines over a 2021…
The Pixel 11's "glow" feature is actually called HiLight—here's what it does
Google will reveal the Pixel 11 series later this month, but leaks and teasers so far have painted a picture…
Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission
One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way toward an attempted rescue…
Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
A quantum-resistant cryptography algorithm that was under consideration as an official US standard has been taken out of the running…
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft is introducing new AI tools designed to help customers continuously streamline and automate the process of identifying and reducing…
Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain
A fast-moving wildfire, one of many raging across Spain, bore down on the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on Friday,…