January 2025

New dementia tool predicts when symptoms will start: ‘Would you want to know?’ 2025-01-08 at 23:34 By Tracy Swartz Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia, which slowly erodes memory, thinking skills and the ability to perform basic tasks. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View

LA wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate; NASA JPL closed 2025-01-08 at 23:17 By Iain Thomson Fire crews fight to keep people, homes, and science safe With several major wildfires raging out of control in Los Angeles, fire crews are risking their lives to protect people, homes, and a key NASA facility.… This article

ByteDance’s Lemon8 gains traction amid TikTok ban threat as creators push the app 2025-01-08 at 23:05 By Associated Press Hearing a lot about Lemon8 lately? You’re not the only one. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Mitel 0-day, 5-year-old Oracle RCE bugs under active exploit 2025-01-08 at 22:33 By Jessica Lyons 3 CVEs added to CISA’s catalog Cybercriminals are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in Mitel MiCollab, including a zero-day flaw, alongside a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server that has been exploited for at least five years.… This

TikTok’s fate divides Trump and fellow Republicans as Supreme Court action looms 2025-01-08 at 21:49 By Reuters While President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to block a looming U.S. ban on TikTok, many of his Republican allies have urged the opposite. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post

Quantum? No solace: Nvidia CEO sinks QC stocks with 20 years off forecast 2025-01-08 at 21:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo D-Wave, Rigetti and others plummet nearly 50% following Huang’s comment at CES The quantum computing industry seems to be just as delicate as the qubits it relies on. Shares in some publicly traded QC companies saw

Neglected Domains Used in Malspam to Evade SPF and DMARC Security Protections 2025-01-08 at 20:52 By Cybersecurity researchers have found that bad actors are continuing to have success by spoofing sender email addresses as part of various malspam campaigns. Faking the sender address of an email is widely seen as an attempt to make the

Garmin Connect outage leaves folks unable to share their fitness virtue signaling 2025-01-08 at 20:40 By Iain Thomson RUN/STOP Fitness app Garmin Connect got knocked down but got up again, after an unexplained outage that left fitness extroverts flummoxed.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Amazon splashes $11B on AI datacenters in Georgia 2025-01-08 at 20:03 By Dan Robinson The Peach State is already home to more than 50 bit barns Amazon’s datacenter footprint in the US state of Georgia is set to swell, with an $11 billion investment proposed.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

NASA has just two Mars Sample Return mission lander options left 2025-01-08 at 19:20 By Richard Speed JPL’s spy crane tech or private vendor to get $5-7 billion contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA NASA says it needs until 2026 before making a final decision on how the Mars Sample Return (MSR)

Never mind those Chinese spies: US Air Force picks Verizon for 35 base network upgrades 2025-01-08 at 18:44 By Brandon Vigliarolo Salt Typhoon? Unpatched network kit? Sorry, I think you’re breaking up Never mind that whole Salt Typhoon hiccup – Verizon’s reputation hit hasn’t stopped it from securing a deal to upgrade the networks on

Meta employees rip Mark Zuckerberg for ending fact-checking, adding Dana White to board: ‘Extremely concerned’ 2025-01-08 at 18:20 By Ariel Zilber Workers at the Silicon Valley giant voiced their displeasure on the company’s internal messaging forum on Tuesday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View

Application security and risk management in financial organizations 2025-01-08 at 18:20 By Financial services companies are under pressure to deliver secure software faster like never before. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research 2025-01-08 at 17:33 By Connor Jones Devices on six-year-old firmware vulnerable to takeover and destruction Argentine cybersecurity shop Eclypsium claims security issues affecting leading DNA sequencing devices could lead to disruptions in crucial clinical research.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Japan’s wooden satellite exits International Space Station 2025-01-08 at 17:04 By Richard Speed Carefully crafted wooden box, LignoSat, is on its own Japan’s wooden satellite, LignoSat, has been deployed into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Instagram users find AI images of themselves on their feeds in ‘nightmarish situation’ — here’s what to do 2025-01-08 at 16:47 By Brooke Kato An Instagram user was scrolling through his feed only to stumble upon AI-generated photos of himself shared by Meta AI. But there’s a way to turn off this feature. This article