Published on: 2025-06-21 01:27:59
Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls in fabric so they can be weighed, treated, and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap. The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 04:15:27
Researchers have found malicious software that received more than 6,000 downloads from the NPM repository over a two-year span, in yet another discovery showing the hidden threats users of such open source archives face. Eight packages using names that closely mimicked those of widely used legitimate packages contained destructive payloads designed to corrupt or delete important data and crash systems, Kush Pandya, a researcher at security firm Socket, reported Thursday. The packages have been
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 08:31:37
In Brief Google’s openly available Gemma collection of AI models has reached a milestone: over 150 million downloads. Omar Sanseviero, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind, announced the figure on X over the weekend, also revealing that developers have created more than 70,000 variants of Gemma on the AI dev platform Hugging Face. Gemma just passed 150 million downloads and over 70k variants on Hugging Face🚀🚀🚀 What would you like to see in the next Gemma versions? — Omar Sansev
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-30 16:25:36
Seven malicious PyPi packages were found using Gmail's SMTP servers and WebSockets for data exfiltration and remote command execution. The packages were discovered by Socket's threat research team, who reported their findings to the PyPI, resulting in the removal of the packages. However, some of these packages were on PyPI for over four years, and based on third-party download counters, one was downloaded over 18,000 times. Here's the complete list shared by Socket: Coffin-Codes-Pro (9,000
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 04:41:33
In Brief In mid-March, Meta said that its “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads, up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024. On Tuesday at its inaugural LlamaCon developer conference, Meta revealed that figure has reached 1.2 billion downloads. “We have thousands of developers contributing tens of thousands of derivative models being downloaded hundreds of thousands of times a month,” said Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox onstage during a keynote. Meanwhile,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-13 08:55:26
A German startup was aiming to test a reentry capsule designed to reach orbit and survive the intense heat of returning to Earth. For its first flight, PHOENIX 1 launched to space as part of a SpaceX ride-share mission, but a change in launch plans largely messed the whole thing up. ATMOS Space Cargo launched its PHOENIX 1 capsule at 8:48 p.m. ET on Monday, with the device tucked inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. About two hours after liftoff, the capsule reentered Earth’s atmosphere, but its sp
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The recommended Ripple cryptocurrency NPM JavaScript library named "xrpl.js" was compromised to steal XRP wallet seeds and private keys and transfer them to an attacker-controlled server, allowing threat actors to steal all the funds stored in the wallets. Malicious code was added to versions 2.14.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, and 4.2.4 of the xrpl NPM package and published to the NPM registry yesterday between 4:46 PM and 5:49 PM ET. These compromised versions have since been removed, and a clean 4.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-21 00:52:03
Encrypted messaging app Signal continues to see spiking downloads in the wake of the messaging scandal, which saw The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg added to a group chat where high-ranking officials in the Trump administration were discussing an attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen. The resulting press coverage around the leak of these sensitive plans has been driving more people to check out Signal’s app for the first time, leading to a doubling of its downloads. According to app int
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-24 00:20:48
Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. That’s the highest download number since 2023. LibreOffice, which runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, is a standalone desktop office productivity software that is free to use. Downloads have picked up since The Document Foundation, which manages its development, released version 25.2 last week. It has emerged as the most popular open-
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Ten npm packages were suddenly updated with malicious code yesterday to steal environment variables and other sensitive data from developers' systems. The campaign targeted multiple cryptocurrency-related packages, and the popular 'country-currency-map' package was downloaded thousands of times a week. The malicious code was discovered by Sonatype researcher Ali ElShakankiry and is found in two heavily obfuscated scripts, "/scripts/launch.js" and "/scripts/diagnostic-report.js," which execute
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 23:52:53
Over 300 malicious Android applications downloaded 60 million items from Google Play acted as adware or attempted to steal credentials and credit card information. The operation was first uncovered by IAS Threat Lab, who categorized the malicious activity under the name "Vapor" and said it has been ongoing since early 2024. IAS identified 180 apps as part of the Vapor campaign, generating 200 million fraudulent advertising bid requests daily to engage in large-scale ad fraud. A newly publishe
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IEMidi IEMidi is a cross-platform MIDI editor built with ImGui and RtMidi. The editor is designed to map any MIDI message to various actions such as volume control, mute, console commands or opening files. Installation Windows Download the win installer from: https://interactive-echoes.github.io/Downloads/Win/IEMidi/amd64/IEMidi-1.2.0-win64.zip To ensure the integrity and authenticity of the IEMidi installer, you can run the Verify.bat file provided by the package. Linux RPM-Based Distr
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In brief: If you're going to visit websites that host pirated video streams, you'd better be willing to accept the risks. That's something owners of the one million devices affected by a malware campaign originating from these sites might not have considered. Microsoft writes that its threat analysis team detected a large-scale malvertising campaign that impacted nearly one million devices globally
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Microsoft has taken down an undisclosed number of GitHub repositories used in a massive malvertising campaign that impacted almost one million devices worldwide. The company's threat analysts detected these attacks in early December 2024 after observing multiple devices downloading malware from GitHub repos, malware that was later used to deploy a string of various other payloads on compromised systems. After analyzing the campaign, they discovered that the attackers injected ads into videos
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 14:43:05
Sensor Tower recently released its latest Digital Market Index Report, which covers the mobile market for the last quarter of 2024. The general report is cautiously optimistic, showing that in-app revenue is up by 13.5% year-over-year, reaching a new high of nearly $40 billion. In the gaming-specific part of the report, Sensor Tower reports that strategy games comprised a large part of the breakout games chart. Specifically, six out of the top 10 games on the Q4 breakout games chart (when sorte
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 12:30:18
Twitch is putting a cap on how much storage a streamer can take up for their uploads and highlight videos. The streaming service has announced that starting on April 19, all uploads and highlights will count towards a new 100-hour storage limit for each streamer, whether the videos are published or not. To note, the cap doesn't apply to past broadcasts, which are previous livestreams saved to a streamer's account for on-demand viewing, or clips, which are minute-long segments that can be shared
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 21:28:00
Twitch is planning to cull some of the content archived by streamers to save on storage costs. On Wednesday, the streaming platform announced that it will introduce a 100-hour storage cap for highlights and uploads starting on April 19th, warning that users will have their content automatically deleted until it falls below the limit. Twitch says it’s doing this because “Highlights haven’t been very effective in driving discovery or engagement,” and it isn’t worth the cost of storing thousands o
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