Enlarge / Three female skeletons found in a Neolithic storage pit in France show signs of ritualistic human sacrifice. . Beeching/Ludes et al., 2024 reader comments 40 Archaeologists have discovered the remains of two women in a Neolithic tomb in France, with the positioning of the bodies suggesting they may have been ritualistically murdered by ..
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Enlarge / ULA’s Vulcan rocket rolls to the launch pad for testing. United Launch Alliance reader comments 119 United Launch Alliance will not see the debut of its next-generation Vulcan rocket in 2023, as previously planned. The launch company’s chief executive, Tory Bruno, announced the delay on the social media site X on Sunday. United ..
Law enforcement agencies in seven countries teamed up with Europol and Eurojust to dismantle a major Ukraine-based ransomware operation. According to Europol, 30 properties were searched on November 21 in four regions of Ukraine, resulting in the arrest of a 32-year-old who is allegedly the operation’s ringleader, as well as four key accomplices. This law ..
Microsoft snapped up Sam Altman and another architect of OpenAI for a new venture after their sudden departures shocked the artificial intelligence world, leaving the newly installed CEO of the ChatGPT maker to paper over tensions by vowing to investigate Altman’s firing. The developments Monday come after a weekend of drama and speculation about how ..
The US Justice Department announced on Wednesday that a man who admitted being an administrator of a now-defunct cybercrime forum named Darkode has been sentenced to prison. Thomas Kennedy McCormick, aka ‘Fubar’, a 30-year-old from Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in running Darkode. The sentence also includes ..
reader comments 21 with Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates to fix a high-severity CPU bug that has the potential to be maliciously exploited against cloud-based hosts. The flaw, affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs, causes them to “enter a glitch state where the normal rules don’t apply,” Tavis Ormandy, one of several security researchers ..
reader comments 1 with That sound you hear in the distance is the slow approach of Black Friday, steadily making its way into your holiday shopping, for better or worse. The deals have already begun, and we’ve got some doozies in today’s Dealmaster, including 4K TVs, headphones and audio gear, tons of tools, and Herman ..
Enlarge / John Carmack (left) and John Romero (second from right) pose with their id Software colleagues in the early ’90s. reader comments 48 with For gamers of a certain age, the ’90s break up of Doom co-creators John Carmack and John Romero is a cultural moment on par with the breakup of The Beatles. ..
Exploitation of a recently patched critical vulnerability in F5’s BIG-IP product started less than five days after public disclosure and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code was published. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-46747 (CVSS score of 9.8), affects the Traffic Management User Interface of BIG-IP and allows for unauthenticated, remote code execution (RCE). A request smuggling flaw, ..
Enlarge / The winning entry: a rodent optic nerve head with astrocytes (yellow), contractile proteins (red), and retinal vasculature (green). Hassanain Qambari and Jayden Dickson reader comments 26 with Millions of Americans with diabetes (about 1 in 5) face the risk of eventual blindness due to diabetic retinopathy, a condition that affects blood vessels in ..