Researchers have revealed a never-before-seen piece of cross-platform malware that has infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including small office routers, FreeBSD boxes, and large enterprise servers. Black Lotus Labs, the research arm of security firm Lumen, is calling the malware Chaos, a word that repeatedly... Read more

Coolio, real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr., has died aged 59, according to TMZ. Reports from paramedics on the scene suggest he may have passed away from a cardiac arrest, but an official cause of death has not been determined. TMZ confirmed the news with Coolio’s longtime manager, who... Read more

Investigators across Europe, including intelligence agencies, will now be trying to piece together exactly who and what caused the apparent explosions. This is likely to involve multiple steps, such as examining what data is held about the area, including seismic data and other sensors, checking whether any communications around... Read more

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Register today. Mythical Games announced it’s launched its first game, Blankos Block Party, which had previously been in early access. The Web3 title is... Read more

Enlarge / CAPTCHAs are meant to prevent these kinds of browsing scenarios, not train us all to better recognize vehicles and infrastructure in grainy photos. Getty Images Cloudflare has recently made an audacious claim: We could all be doing something better with our lives than deciding which images contain... Read more

You don’t have to travel far to have a good time. It’s hard to beat a great cookout with friends, dinners on the patio or ghost stories around the fire pit, but you can use your outdoor oasis for so much more this fall — including big-screen entertainment. All it takes... Read more

In July, the Google executive who oversees the company’s lucrative and dominant search engine made a surprising admission. Younger users were diverting questions that would once have naturally flowed to the iconic search box to social networks, Prabhakar Raghavan said at a Forbes conference. Take the example of where... Read more

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. A doctor walks into a bar… What does the setup for a likely bad joke have to do with image bias in DALL-E? DALL-E is an artificial intelligence... Read more

Not every truism is true, but there’s one for the ad industry that is pretty truthy: When the economy goes south, the ad market is the first thing to go. The idea behind this one is pretty straightforward. If a company needs to cut costs, it’s much easier to... Read more

matrix.org Developers of the open source Matrix messenger protocol are releasing an update on Thursday to fix critical end-to-end encryption vulnerabilities that subvert the confidentiality and authentication guarantees that have been key to the platform’s meteoric rise. Matrix is a sprawling ecosystem of open source and proprietary chat and... Read more