Screenshot showing a graph tracking mining activity. Credit: Checkmarx But wait, there’s more On Friday, Datadog revealed that MUT-1244 employed additional means for installing its second-stage malware. One was through a collection of at least 49 malicious entries posted to GitHub that contained Trojanized proof-of-concept exploits for security vulnerabilities. These packages help malicious and benevolent […]
December 13, 2024 | Biz & IT, credential theft, cryptomining, GitHub, npm, Security, supply chain attacks | No comments
That mind is partly revealed through Herzog’s running narration, such as when he muses about collective behavior and whether fish have souls—a digression sparked by his interview with Siri co-inventor Tom Gruber. “In the background, I saw his TV screen still on, we didn’t switch it off, and I saw some very, very strange school […]
December 13, 2024 | brain, consciousness, Culture, documentaries, film, Neuroscience, science documentaries | No comments
An SEC spokesperson told Ars today that the commission’s policy is “to conduct investigations on a confidential basis to preserve the integrity of its investigative process. The SEC therefore does not comment on the existence or nonexistence of a possible investigation.” A Reuters source confirmed the settlement offer. “The SEC sent Musk a settlement offer […]
December 13, 2024 | elon musk sec, Policy | No comments
A bitcoin investor who went to increasingly great lengths to hide $1 million in cryptocurrency gains on his tax returns was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday. It seems that not even his most “sophisticated” tactics—including using mixers, managing multiple wallets, and setting up in-person meetings to swap bitcoins for cash—kept the feds […]
December 13, 2024 | bitcoin, cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency mixer, department of justice, IRS, Policy, tax evasion, tax fraud | No comments
Accessible racing is the name of the game, so the first four (out of five) difficulty levels lean toward the easier side of things: If you want to change your own gears as opposed to letting the computer handle that for you, you need to pick Elite, which also turns off the traction control and […]
December 13, 2024 | F1, F1 Arcade | No comments
Mastalir said China is “copying the US playbook” with the way it integrates satellites into more conventional military operations on land, in the air, and at sea. “Their specific goals are to be able to track and target US high-value assets at the time and place of their choosing,” Mastalir said. China’s strategy, known as […]
December 13, 2024 | chance saltzman, Features, military space, Science, Space, US Space Force | No comments
On Wednesday, a video from OpenAI’s newly launched Sora AI video generator went viral on social media, featuring a gymnast who sprouts extra limbs and briefly loses her head during what appears to be an Olympic-style floor routine. As it turns out, the nonsensical synthesis errors in the video—what we like to call “jabberwockies”—hint at […]
December 13, 2024 | AI, AI confabulation, AI hallucination, AI jabberwocky, Ai video generator, Biz & IT, confabulation, gymnastics, hallucination, jabberwocky, machine learning, Olympics, openai, Sora, video synthesis | No comments
For the new study, researchers at the Mayo Clinic analyzed health statistics collected by the World Health Organization. The resource included data from 183 countries, allowing the researchers to compare countries’ life expectancy and healthspans, which are calculated by years of life weighted by health status. Longer, but not better Overall, the researchers saw lifespan-healthspan […]
December 13, 2024 | disability, disease, Health, health care, life expectancy, lifespan, Science, us | No comments
For the new study, researchers at the Mayo Clinic analyzed health statistics collected by the World Health Organization. The resource included data from 183 countries, allowing the researchers to compare countries’ life expectancy and healthspans, which are calculated by years of life weighted by health status. Longer, but not better Overall, the researchers saw lifespan-healthspan […]
December 13, 2024 | disability, disease, Health, health care, life expectancy, lifespan, Science, us | No comments
But it’s not clear why … Founded in early 2022 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ArianeGroup, MaiaSpace is developing a 50-meter tall, two-stage, partially reusable rocket designed to deliver small satellites to orbit. Avio builds solid rocket motors and is best known for its Vega rockets. It’s not clear why a reusable launch company would […]
December 13, 2024 | rocket report, Space | No comments