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From the Archives: Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics
When Hurricane Larry made landfall two years ago, it dropped over 100,000 microplastics per square meter of land per day. It’s another ominous sign o…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Fight Against AI Comes to a Foundational Data Set
Long-running nonprofit Common Crawl has been a boon to researchers for years. But now its role in AI training data has triggered backlash from publis…
2 years, 3 months ago
Medical-Targeted Ransomware Is Breaking Records After Change Healthcare’s $22M Payout
Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future counted 44 health-care-related incidents in the month after Change Healthcare’s payment came to light—the most it’…
2 years, 3 months ago
From the Archives: How NASA Is Protecting Its Precious Asteroid Bennu Sample
The OSIRIS-REx capsule containing a “treasure trove” of space rocks has now arrived at Johnson Space Center, where scientists will gingerly unpack it…
2 years, 3 months ago
US Leaders Dodge Questions About Israel’s Influence Campaign
Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has joined US intelligence officials in ignoring repeated inquiries about Israel’s “malign” efforts to covertly inf…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ransomware Is ‘More Brutal’ Than Ever in 2024
As the fight against ransomware slogs on, security experts warn of a potential escalation to “real-world violence.” But recent police crackdowns are …
2 years, 3 months ago
Microsoft's Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought
A new discovery that the AI-enabled feature's historical data can be accessed even by hackers without administrator privileges only contributes to th…
2 years, 3 months ago
From the Archives: Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them
In 2021, scientists experimenting with fiber optics picked up a strange signal: the cacophony of cicadas. It could lead to a new way of monitoring in…
2 years, 3 months ago
From the Archives: The Weirdest Reason the Poles Are Warming So Fast? Invisible Clouds
Clouds way up in the stratosphere act like a blanket, trapping heat in the Arctic and Antarctica. That could help explain why models keep underestima…
2 years, 3 months ago
From the Archives: DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare
Police are hosting events to collect DNA samples that can help solve missing persons cases. But when people put their DNA in a commercial database, i…
2 years, 3 months ago