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Charter's Spectrum brand has finished absorbing Cox, with former Cox customers now billed by Spectrum starting Wednesday. The deal, agreed in May 2025, cleared its last regulatory hurdle after the California Public Utilities Commission approved it last month, giving Charter over 35 million customers nationwide.
The Internet Archive said the Wayback Machine has faced surges of high-volume automated traffic, prompting it to deploy protective measures that occasionally block legitimate users. The organization updated the error message shown when requests are rejected with a 429 'too many requests' code and is refining how it distinguishes abusive bots from genuine visitors.
Five men accused of leading a Black Axe cybercrime cell—Perry Osagiede, Franklyn Osagiede, Osariemen Clement, Collins Otughwor, and Musa Mudashiru—have been extradited from South Africa to the US to face wire fraud and money laundering charges. Prosecutors say the group ran romance scams and advance-fee schemes targeting American victims from Cape Town between 2011 and 2021, using fake identities, dating sites, and VoIP numbers, and blackmailing victims with threats to leak intimate photos when they resisted paying.
A commentary piece draws a parallel between the stigmatized rise of 'Internet dating' becoming simply 'dating' and the current term 'vibe coding,' arguing it may soon just be called 'coding' as AI-driven development becomes the norm. The author notes that today's coding still implies meaningful human authorship, while vibe coding implies letting AI produce code with minimal human involvement, and questions how long that distinction will hold.
A Nature.com piece profiles René Descartes, examining how his mathematical innovations reshaped geometry and laid groundwork for modern analytical methods. The page content itself was largely inaccessible due to a browser compatibility notice, limiting the technical details available.
A Nature editorial argues that the US National Institutes of Health should not adopt simplistic bibliometric measures, such as citation counts or journal impact factors, to judge the value of research it funds. It warns that basing funding or hiring decisions on these numbers risks distorting scientific priorities and rewarding easily counted output over genuinely important work.
Researchers examined how warming temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns are affecting conifer forests, finding measurable impacts on tree growth and physiological function. The changes appear to be reducing the ability of these forests to absorb and store atmospheric carbon as effectively as before.
Usenet-Rewind is a newly launched search engine that lets users browse and query Usenet newsgroup archives spanning from 1981 to the present day. The site currently indexes more than 1 billion messages across tens of thousands of days, with search filters for subject, body text, author, message ID, newsgroup and date range, and it says it is still actively adding more content.
Dubai-based SpiderSilk has built AI-driven scanning tools that need only a company's name to search billions of IP addresses for leaked data, exposed assets, and compromised credentials. The system mimics how an outside attacker would probe an organization's digital footprint, flagging weaknesses before they can be exploited. Co-founder Mossab Hussein says many organizations previously had no clear picture of what was exposed on the open internet until damage was already done.
A retrospective catalogs odd, non-standard CSS behaviors that browsers—especially old versions of Internet Explorer—have accepted over the years, such as property prefixes with asterisks, underscores, or hyphens, and near-arbitrary strings after an exclamation mark being treated as !important. These tricks let developers target specific browsers at a time when CSS lacked conditional logic and browser rendering was wildly inconsistent.
A Nature Briefing Chat episode examines the widely taught story about the Bunsen burner's origins and finds the popular version doesn't hold up to scrutiny. The discussion revisits the historical record to clarify who actually contributed to the device's development and how the myth took hold.
Researchers have discovered a specific population of neurons that act as a natural brake on the growth of a nervous-system cancer, according to new findings published in Nature. The study details how these neurons interact with tumor cells to slow disease progression, offering fresh insight into the biology of nervous-system tumors.