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Astronomers create first 3D map of a hellish alien planet's atmosphere

techspot.com Zo Ahmed 2025-12-18 21:35:00

The big picture: Nearly 6,000 exoplanets have now been confirmed in the vast expanse of the Milky Way galaxy. Some are believed to have the potential to harbor life, while others are so hostile that they make Venus seem mild by comparison. One such planet is the ultra-hot Jupiter known as WASP-121b, nicknamed Tylos – a world so extreme it defies expectations. Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation, Tylos orbits its parent star at an absurdly close distance, completing a

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Explorers Discover First Pharaoh Tomb in Over 100 Years

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-19 00:06:59

A British-Egyptian team of researchers has discovered what it says is the first pharaoh's tomb in over a century. As the BBC reports, the team discovered the tomb of King Thutmose II in the Western valleys of the Theban Necropolis, near Luxor, Egypt. "It is an extraordinary moment for Egyptology and the broader understanding of our shared human story," said Egypt's minister of tourism and antiquities Sherif Fathy in a statement. It must've been an extremely moving moment for everybody involve

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Invisible, autonomous and hackable: The AI agent dilemma no one saw coming

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-12-18 21:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The cyber resilience playbook: Navigating the new era of threats.” Read more from this special issue here. Generative AI poses interesting security questions, and as enterprises move into the agentic world, those safety issues increase. When AI agents enter workflows, they must be able to access sensitive data and documents to do their job — making them a significant risk for many security-minded enterprises. “The rising use of multi-agent

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AI vs. endpoint attacks: What security leaders must know to stay ahead

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-12-18 21:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The cyber resilience playbook: Navigating the new era of threats.” Read more from this special issue here. Enterprises run the very real risk of losing the AI arms race to adversaries who weaponize large language models (LLMs) and create fraudulent bots to automate attacks. Trading on the trust of legitimate tools, adversaries are using generative AI to create malware that doesn’t create a unique signature but instead relies on fileless exe

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Milliseconds to breach: How patch automation closes attackers’ fastest loophole

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-12-18 21:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The cyber resilience playbook: Navigating the new era of threats.” Read more from this special issue here. Procrastinating about patching has killed more networks and damaged more companies than any zero-day exploit or advanced cyberattack. Complacency kills — and carries a high price. Down-rev (having old patches in place that are “down revision”) or no patching at all is how ransomware gets installed, data breaches occur and companies are

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You can now sign up to be a contributor to Meta's Community Notes feature

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-18 23:08:15

After announcing its plan to end third-party fact-checking in January 2025, Meta's crowdsourced replacement is finally starting to take shape. You can now join a waitlist to be a Community Notes contributor on Facebook, Instagram and Threads when the feature rolls out in the coming months. Contributors are expect to provide context via a note when a post on one of Meta's platforms "might be inaccurate or confusing," according to the company's sign-up page. Community Notes will be able to be add

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Elon Musk wants to 'fix' Community Notes on X

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-19 00:23:10

Elon Musk has a problem with Community Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking feature that started as Birdwatch, and launched at scale after he purchased Twitter. "Unfortunately @CommunityNotes is increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media," Musk posted. "Working to fix this..." Based on the rant his tweet descends in to afterwards, his issue appears to be with how X's Community Notes contributors have been treating misinformation about President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the war in Uk

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Chinese hackers use custom malware to spy on US telecom networks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-18 20:11:59

The Chinese state-sponsored Salt Typhoon hacking group uses a custom utility called JumbledPath to stealthily monitor network traffic and potentially capture sensitive data in cyberattacks on U.S. telecommunication providers. Salt Typhoon (aka Earth Estries, GhostEmperor, and UNC2286) is a sophisticated hacking group active since at least 2019, primarily focusing on breaching government entities and telecommunications companies. Recently, the U.S. authorities have confirmed that Salt Typhoon w

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US healthcare org pays $11M settlement over alleged cybersecurity lapses

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-18 22:47:21

Health Net Federal Services (HNFS) and its parent company, Centene Corporation, have agreed to pay $11,253,400 to settle allegations that HNFS falsely certified compliance with cybersecurity requirements under its Defense Health Agency (DHA) TRICARE contract. The U.S. government contracted HNFS to provide managed healthcare support services for TRICARE's North region, covering 22 states. The contract required compliance with cybersecurity standards, specifically 48 C.F.R. § 252.204-7012 and 51

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Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from ancient Red Planet lake

news.ycombinator.com Stefanie Waldek 2025-12-18 23:28:53

Today, we know of Mars as a cold, dry desert, with patches of subterranean ice and ice caps at its poles. Billions of years ago, however, liquid water flowed freely across the planet. And, while NASA's various Mars rovers have uncovered signs that such water once existed on Mars , there's perhaps no better evidence of an ice-free, shallow lake than these two sets of ripples in Martian rock. In November 2022, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged the Amapari Marker Band in the foothills of Mount Sharp,

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Apple, Lenovo lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-18 23:20:21

Apple and Lenovo had the lowest laptop repairability scores in an analysis of recently released devices from consumer advocacy group US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. While Apple's low marks are partially due the difficulty involved in disassembling MacBooks, Lenovo appears to be withholding information from shoppers deemed critical to right-to-repair legislation and accessibility. The report, US PIRG's fourth annual “Failing the Fix” [PDF], calculated repairability score

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Meta starts accepting sign-ups for Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-18 23:55:57

Meta announced in a blog post on Thursday that it’s now accepting sign-ups for its Community Notes program on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The announcement follows Meta news last month that it’s going to end its third-party fact-checking program and is instead moving to a Community Notes model similar to the one at X. In its blog post, Meta explains that Community Notes will be a way for users across its platforms to decide when posts are misleading, and allow them to add more context to t

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Microsoft fixes Power Pages zero-day bug exploited in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-19 00:34:14

Microsoft has issued a security bulletin for a high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in Power Pages, which hackers exploited as a zero-day in attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-24989, is an improper access control problem impacting Power Pages, allowing unauthorized actors to elevate their privileges over a network and bypass user registration controls. Microsoft says it has addressed the risk at the service level and notified impacted customers accordingly, enclosing instruct

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Integrating LLMs into security operations using Wazuh

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-19 00:01:11

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence in machines, enabling systems to learn from data, recognize patterns, and make decisions. These decisions can include predicting outcomes, automating processes, and detecting anomalies. Large Language Models (LLMs) are specialized AI models designed to process, understand, and generate human-like text. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on diverse and extensive textual data. They are designed to understand language and a

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What’s driving electricity demand? It isn’t just AI and data centers.

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-12-19 03:00:00

Take the US, for example. The IEA report points to other research showing that the 10 states hosting the most data center growth saw a 10% increase in electricity demand between 2019 and 2023. Demand in the other 40 states declined by about 3% over the same period. One caveat here is that nobody knows for sure what’s going to happen with data centers in the future, particularly those needed to run AI. Projections are all over the place, and small changes could drastically alter the amount of en

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Best Internet Providers in Minneapolis, Minnesota

cnet.com Stephen J. Bronner 2025-12-18 23:14:00

What is the best internet provider in Minneapolis? Xfinity is CNET's top pick for the best internet service provider for most Minneapolis households thanks to its wide selection of plans and solid coverage throughout the area. Whether you need fast speeds for gaming and streaming or an affordable connection for everyday home usage, Xfinity's wide range of plans has options for everyone. It offers competitive prices and reliable customer support as well, making Xfinity a solid overall choice. I

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This smart thermostat compay is considering charging users for its app

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-12-19 05:56:01

In a first for a smart thermostat company, Tado is exploring charging its customers £1 / €1 a month just to control their devices from its app. Multiple users have reported that Tado, manufacturers of smart thermostats, radiator valves, and heat pump controllers for Europe and the UK, sent a message through their app alerting them to the impending charge. The Verge reached out to Tado to confirm this, but the company declined to comment. According to a post on the Tado community forum earlier t

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Tether backs stablecoin liquidity provider Mansa in $10M seed round

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-12-18 23:00:00

As payment companies increasingly explore stablecoins for cross-border payments and real-time settlement, some startups are tapping into the zeitgeist by providing liquidity via a revolving line of credit in stablecoins. One of them is Dubai-based Mansa, whose offering allows payments companies, mainly in Africa to date, to settle transactions and fund customer accounts instantly. The startup has raised $10 million in seed funding including both equity and debt. Stablecoin provider Tether led t

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iPhone 16e camera seems to lack latest-generation Photographic Styles

9to5mac.com Filipe Espósito 2025-12-18 22:05:17

With the iPhone 16 lineup, Apple has completely revamped the Photographic Styles feature – which was first introduced with the iPhone 13. However, despite the new iPhone 16e having almost the same hardware as its more expensive siblings, the device seems to lack the latest-generation Photographic Styles. iPhone 16e and Photographic Styles Based on Apple’s official webpage that compares different iPhone models, only the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro feature the latest-generation Photographic Styl

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Researchers Find Elon Musk's New Grok AI Is Extremely Vulnerable to Hacking

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-19 00:28:54

Researchers at the AI security company Adversa AI have found that Grok 3, the latest model released by Elon Musk's startup xAI this week, is a cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen. The team found that the model is extremely vulnerable to "simple jailbreaks," which could be used by bad actors to "reveal how to seduce kids, dispose of bodies, extract DMT, and, of course, build a bomb," according to Adversa CEO and cofounder Alex Polyakov. And it only gets worse from there. "It’s not just ja

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You can now apply for the 'opportunity to purchase' an RTX 5090 or 5080 from NVIDIA

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-19 03:55:49

While graphics cards have been getting almost ludicrously more powerful over the years, it's also been increasingly difficult to actually buy one . In an effort to address this problem, NVIDIA has introduced a plan it's calling Verified Priority Access for its recently released GeForce RTX 50 series of GPUs. Verified Priority Access offers an unspecified number of people the chance to buy either a GeForce RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card direct from the company. This "opportu

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US AI Safety Institute will be 'gutted,' Axios reports

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-12-18 23:04:00

Andry Djumantara/Getty Images After reversing a Biden-era executive order on AI regulation and firing staff across several government agencies, the Trump administration is gearing up to make cuts to the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) next. On Wednesday, Axios reported that probationary employees at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which houses AISI, are "bracing to be fired imminently." Sources told Axios they are preparing for 497 roles to be cut, which they believe w

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Best Internet Providers in Missouri City, Texas

cnet.com Hallie Seltzer 2025-12-18 22:24:00

What is the best internet provider in Missouri City? Xfinity is the best internet service provider in Missouri City, Texas, according to our CNET experts. Xfinity offers the widest broadband availability in this Texas town, serving over 99% of households, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Plus, this cable giant comes with low prices, speeds up to 2 gigabits and free equipment on most plans. Other ISPs, such as T-Mobile Home Internet, Frontier Fiber and AT&T, also serve select

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Latest Tech News

Astronomers create first 3D map of a hellish alien planet's atmosphere

Explorers Discover First Pharaoh Tomb in Over 100 Years

Invisible, autonomous and hackable: The AI agent dilemma no one saw coming

AI vs. endpoint attacks: What security leaders must know to stay ahead

Milliseconds to breach: How patch automation closes attackers’ fastest loophole

You can now sign up to be a contributor to Meta's Community Notes feature

Elon Musk wants to 'fix' Community Notes on X

Chinese hackers use custom malware to spy on US telecom networks

US healthcare org pays $11M settlement over alleged cybersecurity lapses

Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from ancient Red Planet lake

Apple, Lenovo lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

Meta starts accepting sign-ups for Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

Microsoft fixes Power Pages zero-day bug exploited in attacks

Integrating LLMs into security operations using Wazuh

What’s driving electricity demand? It isn’t just AI and data centers.

Best Internet Providers in Minneapolis, Minnesota

This smart thermostat compay is considering charging users for its app

Tether backs stablecoin liquidity provider Mansa in $10M seed round

iPhone 16e camera seems to lack latest-generation Photographic Styles

Researchers Find Elon Musk's New Grok AI Is Extremely Vulnerable to Hacking

You can now apply for the 'opportunity to purchase' an RTX 5090 or 5080 from NVIDIA

US AI Safety Institute will be 'gutted,' Axios reports

Best Internet Providers in Missouri City, Texas

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