Enlarge In 2009, the computer worm Stuxnet crippled hundreds of centrifuges inside Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant by targeting the software running on the facility’s industrial computers, known as programmable logic controllers. The exploited PLCs Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) If you purchased a new car in the past few years, chances are good that it contains at least one embedded modem, which it uses to offer some Read more…
Enlarge / This is the front of the Apple Watch Ultra. (credit: Samuel Axon) We learned earlier this week that Apple is trying to make its own in-house Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips, and today the Read more…
Enlarge (credit: James Marshall/Getty Images) Last month, a young woman went to work at Sarzamineh Shadi, or Land of Happiness, an indoor amusement park east of Iran’s capital, Tehran. After a photo of her without Read more…
Enlarge / As of 7:30 am Eastern, all domestic flights have been grounded due to a NOTAM outage. (credit: Getty Images) Today might not be the best day to fly. Earlier this morning, the Federal Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than a fifth of the passwords protecting network accounts at the US Department of the Interior—including Password1234, Password1234!, and ChangeItN0w!—were weak enough to be cracked using standard methods, a recently Read more…
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person talking to a secret robot therapist. (credit: Ars Technica) On Friday, Koko co-founder Rob Morris announced on Twitter that his company ran an experiment to provide AI-written Read more…
Enlarge / The iPhone 14 Pro. (credit: Apple) For years now, Apple has wanted to replicate its success in processors with its own in-house cellular modems. The company spent $1 billion to buy Intel’s modem Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Academic researchers have discovered serious vulnerabilities in the core of Threema, an instant messenger that its Switzerland-based developer says provides a level of security and privacy “no other chat service” can Read more…
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person’s silhouette. (credit: Ars Technica) On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person’s voice when given a three-second Read more…