It'll also cost billions, but perhaps a price worth paying?

Let's say that you and your political leaders are committed to reducing the effects of the "greenhouse gasses" such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) that are indisputably toasting our Earth.…

Won't stop the chaos, may lead to attacks with more dire consequences

Opinion  A general ban on ransomware payments, as was floated by some this week, sounds like a good idea. Eliminate extortion as a source of criminal income, and the attacks are undoubtedly going to drop. …

An electric airplane on Mars, micrograv hibernation, and plenty others

NASA is funding 13 ambitious projects that could potentially lead to space missions one day, ranging from scanning for signs of life on Mars to exploring a nearby exoplanet with thousands of swarming spacecraft.…

Remember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers?

Extortionists are now threatening to swat hospital patients — calling in bomb threats or other bogus reports to the police so heavily armed cops show up at victims' homes — if the medical centers don't pay the crooks' ransom demands.…

You really think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?

Predictive and generative AI systems remain vulnerable to a variety of attacks and anyone who says otherwise isn't being entirely honest, according to Apostol Vassilev, a computer scientist with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).…

Stockpiled TSMC silicon from 2020 shock!

Did Huawei's domestic fab partners somehow develop the means to mass produce a 5nm laptop chip in spite of US sanctions designed to prevent just that? No, they most certainly did not.…

The advent of generative AI has made the attack far more pervasive

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is promising a $25,000 reward for the best solution to combat the growing threat of AI voice cloning.…

Perfect timing – now BYD can rub that in Tesla's face along with stealing the global EV sales crown

A hot new Tesla import has arrived in China in the form of a pair of forced software updates for nearly every car the US EV maker has sold in the Middle Kingdom. …

Decades, gone in a flash: Longlived mission was almost derailed by file system whoopsie

It is 20 years this week since NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars, kicking off years of exploration before ending its mission stuck in the sand.…

So long, and thanks for all the sanctions as PR and government relations teams decamp

Chinese tech giant Huawei has reportedly stood down much of its public and government relations teams in the US and Canada, in a sign it may have given up trying to persuade Washington to soften its stance.…

Remember when Microsoft said that about FTC (and then walked it back)?

SpaceX has sued America's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an independent federal agency responsible for protecting private sector employees' rights, just 24 hours after the body accused Elon Musk's company of treating employees unfairly.…

Fitzpatrick faces potentially decades in prison later this month, so may as well get some foreign Netflix in beforehand

The cybercriminal behind BreachForums was this week arrested for violating the terms of his pretrial release and will now be held in custody until his sentencing hearing.…

Throwback word processor ditched from clean installs, soon to be removed on upgrade

Microsoft has begun ditching WordPad from Windows and removed the editor from the first Canary Channel build of 2024.…