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Albania’s Vjosa, ‘Europe’s last wild river’ Lucas Bischoff Photo/shutterstock When you look at an abandoned construction site, it’s not hard to wonder what happened. We floated along the bend of the river on a raft to two huge artificial dykes…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that Saturn’s moon Enceladus is spewing out a giant plume of water vapor, far larger than anything previously observed there. This gigantic cloud may contain the chemical components of life that have…

AI fooled advertising experts BrXnd.ai AI-generated ads were proven to be generally indistinguishable from human-created ads in the first competition known as the Ad Turing Test. The contest is inspired by the original Turing test, which asks how well a…

$400 for 1080p performance and extra memory Like it or not, $400 is now the price point for mid-range GPUs. It may be a little high compared to past card prices, but what’s not? It’s far more affordable than the…

A recently discovered Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group named GoldenJackal has been observed targeting governments and diplomatic organizations in the Middle East and South Asia. According to a new advisory published by Kaspersky today, GoldenJackal has been active since 2019,…

We are trying to learn more about the predicted ice conditions in the Moon’s Permanent Shadow Regions (PSR). Several countries are eyeing the lunar south pole, and researchers plan where and how to explore the bottom of the sun-blocking terrain.…

After continual writes, the drive’s file system gets corrupted and data disappears A significant number of users of portable SanDisk Extreme SSDs, especially Extreme V2 and Extreme Pro V2 2TB and 4TB models, have experienced catastrophic data loss. Prolonged writes…

ClearSky cybersecurity experts have discovered a sophisticated watering hole attack targeting multiple Israeli websites. The malicious attempt is believed to have been perpetrated by Iranian nation-state actors and has raised concerns for the safety of shipping and logistics companies operating…

Climate Wire | The 1987 Montreal Protocol is best known for protecting the ozone layer. Scientists now claim it slowed the disappearance of Arctic sea ice. An international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons is widely regarded as one of…

May 23, 2023Ravi LakshmananEndpoint security/malware Since at least May 2020, unknown attackers have been observed leveraging malicious Windows kernel drivers to conduct attacks, presumably targeting the Middle East. Fortinet named Artifact Fortiguard Labs winter picks (WinTapix.sys) said there is low…