Astronomers are eagerly awaiting a rare celestial event involving a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Corona Borealis. The system consists of a white dwarf and a red giant locked in a cosmic dance. The white dwarf is steadily drawing hydrogen from its companion, which will eventually lead to a … Read more
Google updates deepfakes search algorithms and controls and expands About this image to Circle to Search and Google Lens. Google has updated its search ranking system for queries where there’s a higher risk of explicit fake content appearing. This includes making it easier to remove deepfakes from search results. The company is also improving the … Read more
Three critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ServiceNow IT service management platform. These flaws, identified as CVE-2024-4879, CVE-2024-5217, and CVE-2024-5178, have been under active exploitation and have exposed sensitive information from over 105 organizations. The vulnerabilities allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code within the Now Platform, potentially leading to compromise, data theft, … Read more
Microsoft and Discord are making it easier for people using Xbox consoles to communicate with friends and family. You can already share your gaming experiences on Discord, but now you’ll also be able to watch what your friends are doing, whether they’re playing games on a PC, phone, or Xbox. Xbox Insiders will get this … Read more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are rapidly advancing fields that have significantly impacted various industries. Autonomous agents, a specialized branch of AI, are designed to operate independently, make decisions, and adapt to changing environments. These agents are crucial for tasks that require long-term planning and interaction with complex, dynamic settings. To develop autonomous … Read more
Social Life The Hardest Part of Learning Another Language Knowing a language is not the same as being able to effectively communicate with it. A knowledge of social rules, routines, and norms is essential too. Key points: * Knowing a language and being able to effectively communicate with it are different things. * Understanding social … Read more
Researchers have made progress towards a unified theory for high temperature superconductivity in copper-containing materials called cuprates. Superconductivity competes with magnetic spin and electric charge density wave (CDW) order in these materials. In regular metals, electron spins cancel each other out and electrical charges are uniform. However, strong electron interactions in high-temperature superconductors give rise … Read more
AWS appears to be scaling back its DevOps service, closing CodeCommit source code repository service and Cloud9 cloud IDE to new customers without prior announcement or formal documentation. Users discovered the changes by trying to create a CodeCommit repository, which returned an error message stating that onboarding new customers ceased on June 6, 2024. AWS … Read more
Dark chocolate and similar cocoa products are contaminated with lead and cadmium, two neurotoxic metals linked to cancer, chronic disease, or reproductive and developmental issues, especially in children. A new study found that even organic dark chocolate contains high levels of these metals. As natural elements in the Earth’s crust, lead, cadmium, and other heavy … Read more
A Fortune 50 company paid a record-breaking $75 million ransom payment to the Dark Angels ransomware gang in early 2024. This is higher than any previously known amount and surpasses the previous largest known ransom payment of $40 million, which was paid by insurance giant CNA after an Evil Corp ransomware attack. Dark Angels is … Read more