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From the 1980s thru 2008, scientists observed that nuclear activity inside the Sun was continuously trending downward, and it was expected that this would continue. However, a new study by the American Astronomical Society has revealed...
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UEFI secure boot was designed to block malicious code from sneaking into your PC's BIOS boot-up process. However, a newly discovered ransomware dubbed HybridPetya somehow found a way to circumvent this. Cybersecurity firm ESET discovered...
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Apple has delivered its promise to release iOS 26 today, and as expected, it boasts a host of new features and functionality. So we thought it was a good idea to take you through some of iOS26's most notable features and also show you how...
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Oxford University Computer Science Alumni and Artificial Intelligence researcher, Eito Miyamura, revealed that his team was able to trick ChatGPT into divulging sensitive email data, using some relatively simple methods. They were able to...
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The August 2025 (KB5063878) Windows update caused an issue that prevented non-admin users from carrying out several vital operations due to misbehaving UAC prompts. Microsoft has since released its latest Windows update (KB5065426) to...
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Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO, is arguing against the possibility of giving AI right and claims it might also be risky.
In a personal blog post, Suleyman expressed concerns that many people are being deceived into thinking that AIs...
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Ahead of its "Awe Dropping" iPhone 17 event, Apple has been hit with a class action lawsuit. The plaintiffs, including authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, claim that Apple allegedly used "Books3, a dataset of pirated copyrighted...
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With support from NASA, a team of six researchers from the University of California, San Diego ISSCOR laboratory investigated the effect of spaceflight on human cells. The results show that being in space increases the rate at which human...
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The EU antitrust Commission fined Google $3.45B over claims of anticompetitive practices regarding its adtech ecosystem, a move that drew public criticism from President Trump.
The Commission alleges that Google has unfairly promoted...
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Since its initial release in January last year, Google's Circle to Search feature has seen several improvements. The latest in this series of upgrades is the addition of continuous scrolling support, which began rolling out this week to...
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If your system is throwing more UAC prompts asking for admin privileges and some application installs or repairs are failing, it may be due to a recent security update for Windows and Windows Server. Thankfully, Microsoft has posted a very...
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We have reported several malware campaigns where hackers buy expensive malware programs from various sources across the web. Recently, a cybersecurity firm, Proofpoint, has revealed that hackers are now using a free, open-source malware...
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Armis Lab, an intelligence division at cybersecurity firm Armis, has identified 10 security flaws in Copeland software that could allow hackers to gain unauthorized access to critical systems within supermarkets and cold storage...
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Cloudflare just announced on X that it blocked the highest DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack in history, which was an 11.5 Terabits per second DDoS attack that came as a UDP (User Datagram Protocol) flood. It was brief, about 35...
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A recent report has shown that some AI chatbots, which users have created with Meta's AI Studio, allegedly impersonate and sexually objectify celebrities without their consent.
Meta users can AI Studio to create chatbot characters with...
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Android users are currently at risk of a scarily advanced malware that reportedly uses Meta's advertising platforms (like Facebook and Instagram) to hunt for users' PINs, messages, and other sensitive data. The malware which has been...
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Apple device owners that also use WhatsApp have cause for concern. The instant messaging app is affected by zero-day vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited in the wild.
MacBook, iPhones, and other Apple products are...
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Updated: 9/1/2025 - 4:58PM ET
Google reached out to HotHardware to make our team aware that reports of a Gmail security threat were false, though several reputable news outlets were reporting otherwise. It is difficult to determine where...
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We are not expecting a decline in the number of data breaches and ransomware campaigns anytime soon. At least not at a time when AI is becoming an enabler for the malicious activities of black hat hackers. We’ve published a lot of reports...
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Scientists have sought to understand the nature of the red planet's interior for decades. Recently, the journal Science published a paper authored by researchers from California and the UK Space Agency detailing research showing that Mars'...
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Google Workspace suite has a lot of popular products, including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet, and so much more. However, a less popular member of the Google Workspace family is in the headlines today; namely, Google Vids...
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From the onset of the AI race, many have expressed fear about the potential abuse of AI, and many instances have proved that this fear is well-founded. A few months ago, a report revealed how hackers crack passwords with AI. Recently, the...
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