Category: Technology

Pikselstock/Shutterstock In May 2025, a post asking “[Am I the asshole] for telling my husband’s affair partner’s fiancé about their relationship?” quickly received 6,200 upvotes and more than 900 comments on Reddit. This popularity earned the post a spot on Reddit’s front page of trending posts. The problem? It was (very likely) written by artificial […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal grand jury has returned a four-count superseding indictment charging 12 additional individuals, including U.S. citizens and foreign nationals, for their alleged roles in a cyber-enabled racketeering enterprise responsible for stealing over $263 million in cryptocurrency. The charges, unsealed today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, expand upon […]

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler has uncovered a massive data breach involving an unsecured online database containing more than 184 million unique account credentials. The exposed information, stored in plain text and accessible without any password protection or encryption, includes usernames, passwords, email addresses, and URLs associated with major platforms such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, […]

Children in Serbia may soon be learning basic literacy and maths with the help of a friendly virtual alpaca called Alpa, thanks to EU-funded research that is improving access to first-rate educational technology across Europe. Alpa is a key, albeit non-human, member of the team at ALPA Kids, an education technology company based in Estonia […]

Don Mammoser/Shutterstock In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises – but my rhythmic analyses reveal a different story. Those noises are the calls of Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii), used to warn others about the presence of predators. […]

Nova Scotia Power has confirmed that it was targeted in a sophisticated ransomware attack, resulting in the theft of sensitive customer information. The breach, first detected on April 25, 2025, led to unauthorized access to parts of the company’s Canadian network and business application servers. While the company has not disclosed the specific ransomware group […]

WASHINGTON / THE HAGUE — May 26, 2025 — In a major international cybercrime takedown, law enforcement agencies from the United States, Europe, and other global partners have disrupted the infamous DanaBot botnet, dismantling its vast infrastructure and unsealing indictments against 16 individuals allegedly involved in its operations. The coordinated action, part of the broader […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back key Biden-era restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) chip exports to China, calling the previous policy a “failure” that cost U.S. companies billions in lost sales. Speaking Wednesday at the Computex technology conference in Taipei, Huang said the export controls introduced […]

Leading technology companies OpenAI, Nvidia, SoftBank, Oracle, Cisco, and UAE-based firm G42 have announced the creation of Stargate UAE, a major artificial intelligence infrastructure cluster in Abu Dhabi. This initiative is a sister project to the recently unveiled Stargate USA, aimed at expanding global AI capabilities. The project was first revealed in January, when OpenAI, […]

The Trump administration’s recent announcement of a “Golden Dome” strategic missile defence shield to protect the US is the most ambitious such project since President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of the 1980s. The SDI programme – better known by its somewhat mocking nickname of “Star Wars” – sparked a heated debate over its […]