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The quest to return to the Moon has hit another snag. NASA is delaying Artemis II again, as interrupted helium flow to the rocket’s upper stage forces a rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and wipes out the March launch window. The US space agency said on Saturday that it was troubleshooting interruptions in

Flock cameras have become such attractive targets for destruction that some police have become protective of information about where they’re mounted. A local news story Friday in Louisville, Kentucky detailed the Louisville police’s effort to keep the locations secret. The story also mentions that when the locations of some of the cameras were released, they

SerpApi, a Texas-based web scraping company, has asked a California court to dismiss Google’s claim that that it bypassed digital locks to gather copyrighted content in Google Search results. “Google is the largest scraper in the world,” the company said in a blog post on Friday. “Google’s entire business began with a web crawler that

Thieves stole more than $20 million from compromised ATMs last year using a malware-assisted technique that the FBI says is on the uptick across the United States. They are doing this through ATM jackpotting – a cyber-physical attack in which crooks exploit physical and software vulnerabilities in ATMs to deploy malware that instructs the machine

Notepad++ has continued beefing up security with a release the project’s author claims makes the “update process robust and effectively unexploitable.” Version 8.9.2 adds verification of the signed XML returned by notepad-plus-plus.org. Combined with verification of the signed installer, introduced in version 8.8.9, the update process now validates both the instructions and the payload –

Many are longing for oblivion these days, and the cleansing fire of any sort of apocalypse presumably sounds great, including one brought on by malevolent forms of machine intelligence. This sort of wishful thinking would go a long way toward explaining why recent stories about an AI that supposedly bullied a software developer, hinting at

Podcaster David Greene is accusing Google of using his voice without permission to create one of the AI voices in the company’s research and note-taking tool NotebookLM. Google added Audio Overviews in the second half of 2024, allowing NotebookLM users to make brief podcast episodes out of pages of notes and documents of any kind.

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been distributing to Big Tech the past few months, according to an anonymously sourced New York

Here’s something you rarely see so up close. The photograph above shows one of 18 optical modules inside KM3NeT, a massive detector for neutrinos, which are nearly massless, neutrally charged particles that permeate every corner of the universe. The bubble-like demeanor of the module is reminiscent of where KM3NeT is located: deep under the Mediterranean

Of the solar system’s planets, Saturn piques the human imagination with its signature rings and impressive moon count of 274. But compelling new research reignites theories of an ancient collision shaping Saturn’s environment as we know it today—especially Titan, its biggest moon. The study, accepted for publication in the Planetary Science Journal, addresses a well-known