on April 1, researchers from the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure identified the first of what they quickly found to be seven vulnerabilities—all easy to spot, some potentially catastrophic—in an IT management system known as the Virtual System Administrator. By April 6, they had found 2,200 vulnerable systems and... Read more

Donald Trump filed lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google on Wednesday, accusing the companies of violating his and other conservatives’ First Amendment rights. But winning these lawsuits seems to be beside the point for Trump. Legal experts say these are frivolous cases likely to be thrown out of court,... Read more

Morgan Stanley suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive customer data, and it became the latest known casualty of hackers exploiting a series of now-patched vulnerabilities in Accellion FTA, a widely used third-party file-transfer service. The data obtained included names, addresses dates of birth, social security numbers, and affiliated... Read more

A recent study from the University of Sydney School of Psychology investigated why our brains process certain signals and interpret them as human faces. And right on cue, here’s another stunning example. BBC photographer Jeff Overs took a photo in Newhaven, in East Sussex, England on Tuesday that very... Read more

An emergency patch that Microsoft issued on Tuesday fails to fully fix a critical security vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that allows attackers to take control of infected systems and run code of their choice, researchers said. Ars Technica This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a... Read more

Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. When I think about Star Trek, I think about the Prime Directive. I don’t think about the way the show deals with it, necessarily. But I try to consider what... Read more

Fort Lauderdale is interested in using a tunnel to ease traffic on one of its busiest roads, and Elon Musk wants to build it. This week, Ford Lauderdale’s city government accepted a proposal from Musk’s urban tunnel-digging outfit, the Boring Company, to carve out an underground passageway that will... Read more

Deathloop will be the focus of Sony’s upcoming State of Play event. Bethesda If you’ve been eagerly awaiting Deathloop’s release on PS5, Sony has the livestream for you. The upcoming Bethesda shooter will be the focus of Thursday’s State of Play presentation, which will include roughly 30 minutes of... Read more

Getting into the weeds of its specifications for a minute, the Vilo routers support IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac. There’s no support for the latest ax standard, also known as Wi-Fi 6. That’s not a huge deal considering you need to upgrade all your devices to enable Wi-Fi 6, but it would’ve... Read more

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. The NFT Oasis creator Provenonce has raised $4.4 million to enable virtual reality creators to reach the mass market via VR art galleries. The company has created a gathering place in VR... Read more