2025

Small ocean swirls may have an outsized affect on climate, NASA satellite shows 2025-04-17 at 19:40 By Lindsay Clark SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time A NASA-led satellite mission has suggested that swirls and eddies in the middle of the ocean have a bigger influence on Earth’s climate […]

Google and AWS say it’s too hard for customers to use Linux to dodge Azure 2025-04-17 at 19:40 By Paul Kunert Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive and in-house expertise needed When moving to the cloud, companies with significant investments in Microsoft infrastructure wares simply can’t afford to rewrite everything for Linux, so they end

Mustang Panda Targets Myanmar With StarProxy, EDR Bypass, and TONESHELL Updates 2025-04-17 at 19:40 By The China-linked threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been attributed to a cyber attack targeting an unspecified organization in Myanmar with previously unreported tooling, highlighting continued effort by the threat actors to increase the sophistication and effectiveness of their

MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk 2025-04-17 at 17:53 By Liam Proven Bookworm 12.10-based release is a few steps ahead of upstream MX Linux 23.6 is here, taking the baseline of Debian 12.10 and adding some selected tweaks and updates of its own.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

MITRE support extended 11 more months, yet uncertainty remains 2025-04-17 at 17:52 By Although MITRE’s contact has been extended for 11 more months, uncertainty remains un the cyber community.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Get Granny on Gmail — computer and smartphone use lowers risk of brain decline by 42% 2025-04-17 at 17:23 By McKenzie Beard A new study found that older adults who regularly use digital devices are less likely to suffer from cognitive impairment than those who interact with them less frequently. This article is an excerpt

Eliza Labs launches auto.fun, a no-code AI spin on Pump.Fun 2025-04-17 at 17:23 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Eliza Labs, the developer behind the AI agent framework ai16z, announced the launch of auto.fun, a new no-code platform allowing users to launch AI agents on Web3 applications. According to an April 17 announcement, auto.fun allows for

How Mantra’s OM token collapsed in 24 hours of chaos 2025-04-17 at 17:23 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun Mantra’s OM token collapsed by more than 90% overnight, and the crypto world can’t agree on why. On April 13, OM’s price plummeted from over $6 to below $0.50, wiping out more than $5 billion in market

Europe’s cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers 2025-04-17 at 16:52 By Richard Speed ‘It’s amazing how fast the change has been’ Are customers on the European side of the pond considering a move from US hyperscalers in the wake of recent events? Some of the region’s vendors are reporting an uptick in inquiries as

TSMC prepping for tariff turmoil, denies joint venture talks with Intel 2025-04-17 at 16:52 By Dan Robinson Chip contract manufacturer not immune to ‘uncertainties and risks’ caused by Trump’s import taxes TSMC’s top brass insist it is not entertaining a joint venture with beleaguered chip biz Intel, though it is steeling itself for potential effects

State-Sponsored Hackers Weaponize ClickFix Tactic in Targeted Malware Campaigns 2025-04-17 at 16:52 By Multiple state-sponsored hacking groups from Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been found leveraging the increasingly popular ClickFix social engineering tactic to deploy malware over a three-month period from late 2024 through the beginning of 2025. The phishing campaigns adopting the strategy

Artificial Intelligence – What’s all the fuss? 2025-04-17 at 16:52 By Talking about AI: Definitions Artificial Intelligence (AI) — AI refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines, enabling them to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as decision-making and problem-solving. AI is the broadest concept in this field, encompassing various technologies

Critical Erlang/OTP SSH Vulnerability (CVSS 10.0) Allows Unauthenticated Code Execution 2025-04-17 at 16:52 By A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the Erlang/Open Telecom Platform (OTP) SSH implementation that could permit an attacker to execute arbitrary code sans any authentication under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-32433, has been given the maximum CVSS