German authorities identify Daniil Shchukin as UNKN, leader of GandCrab and REvil ransomware gangs, responsible for 130+ attacks and €35M in damages.
Russian GRU hackers used outdated routers to redirect DNS and steal Microsoft Office OAuth tokens from 200+ organizations and 5,000 devices without malware.
Microsoft fixed 167 bugs including SharePoint zero-day, Windows Defender BlueHammer, Adobe Reader flaw, and Chrome zero-day. Second-largest Patch Tuesday ever.
Tyler 'Tylerb' Buchanan, senior Scattered Spider member, pleads guilty to wire fraud and identity theft for 2022 SMS phishing attacks on Twilio, LastPass, etc., stealing $8M in crypto. Faces 20+ years.
A DDoS protection firm, Huge Networks, was found to have enabled massive attacks on Brazilian ISPs due to a breach, exposing misconfigured routers and DNS vulnerabilities.
Apple's R&D spending hit a record $7.9 billion in Q4 2023, driven by AI investments. This Q&A covers the record, reasons, comparisons, projects, financial impact, and future products.
Recent evidence and the 2022 Mauna Loa eruption on Earth provide scientists with crucial data to determine if Venus remains volcanically active.
US Space Force launches a program to develop space-based missile interceptors for Golden Dome, aiming for a 2028 demonstration. Challenges include cost and technology.
Russia's Soyuz 5 rocket successfully completed its first launch on April 30, marking a milestone in domestic spaceflight with improved performance and reduced environmental impact.
Meta overcame the WebRTC forking trap by building a dual-stack architecture for A/B testing, enabling continuous upgrades across 50+ use cases while improving performance, size, and security.
Meta's AI-driven Capacity Efficiency Program automates performance fixes and regression detection, saving hundreds of megawatts and engineering hours at hyperscale.
Facebook revamped Groups Search with hybrid retrieval and automated evaluation to fix discovery, consumption, and validation issues.
DFMO, a forgotten sleeping sickness drug, shows early promise against ultra-rare genetic disorder BABS by targeting the root genetic cause, but faces regulatory and supply hurdles.
Freeze-thaw cycles helped lipid bubbles fuse, capture DNA, and mix molecules, offering a new explanation for life's origin on early Earth.
A rare lensed supernova, SN Winny, appears five times due to gravitational lensing. Measuring time delays between images directly yields the universe's expansion rate, potentially resolving the Hubble constant tension.
Recent excavations in southwestern Spain uncovered six Bronze Age mines, providing evidence that copper, silver, and lead from these sites supplied Scandinavia, solving a long-standing metal mystery.
For the first time, scientists have observed wave-like interference in positronium, an exotic antimatter atom. This breakthrough confirms quantum wave-particle duality for antimatter and opens doors to testing gravity on antimatter.
A 47-million-year-old snake discovered in India, Vasuki indicus, may be one of the largest ever, reaching 15 meters long and rivaling Titanoboa.
Scientists captured the first 3D view of killer T cells forming a precise contact zone to destroy cancer cells, revealing molecular choreography that could transform immunotherapy.
Warm circumpolar deep water has expanded 30% in volume and moved 60 km closer to Antarctica over 20 years, threatening ice shelves and sea levels.