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Citizen Lab says an Israeli ad tech firm used real-time ad auctions to deliver Candiru spyware to chosen targets, including at least 45 Al Jazeera devices. Here is how the ad-based attack worked, who was hit and what actually protects you.
SunExpress, United Express and British Airways all turned flights around over cracked windows or windshields in five weeks. Here is how airplane windows are built, why a crack is usually not dangerous, and what the rare serious cases had in common.
Two UK graduates stranded on Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Salt Pans used a saved what3words location and its offline compass to find their sunken Land Rover at night. Here is what really saved them, and which offline location and satellite SOS tools work where.
A prank ChatGPT image of a brown bear sent police and hunters searching a Russian town, and a court fined its creator 15,000 roubles. Here is the law behind it, the wave of fake bears across Russia, and why it is not funny in a year of 26 deadly attacks.
Tesla finally revealed the new Roadster, and the driverless demo car used SpaceX-style air thrusters to flip over five parked cars. Here is what the three versions claim, what the “flying car” can really do, and what is still missing.
Anthropic is giving six METR researchers employee-level access and no right to block their reports. Here is how the new three-tier audit system works and why it matters.
Meta’s Muse Spark Open packs 816 billion parameters and a 1 million token context window, and it is built to run locally on Apple silicon. Here is what that really takes and who it is for.
Johan and Johanna ran on the same GPT-4 model, yet workers in a VR office gave the male-presenting avatar more money, while insisting gender did not matter. Here is what the NordiCHI paper actually found, and what it cannot prove.
Cloudflare Radar’s bot map puts automated traffic at roughly a third of the web, while Thales says bots hit 53% in 2025. Here is why the numbers differ, what AI crawlers are changing, and how close we really are to a ‘dead internet.’
Apple added the 2017 12-inch MacBook, the sixth-generation iPad and BeatsX to its obsolete list on October 14. Apple Stores will no longer repair them, but MacBook owners still have a battery-only lifeline.