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Nov 9, 2024

Microsoft Warns of Chinese Botnet Exploiting Router Flaws for Credential Theft

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Chinese botnet Storm-0940 exploits routers, targets Microsoft users with covert password spray attacks.

Nov 9, 2024

Microsoft Delays Windows Copilot+ Recall Release Over Privacy Concerns

Posted by in category: privacy

Microsoft delays Windows Copilot+ Recall feature to enhance privacy, with a new release slated for December.

Nov 9, 2024

New Phishing Kit Xiū gǒu Targets Users Across Five Countries With 2,000 Fake Sites

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Discover how the new Xiū gǒu phishing kit threatens users in multiple countries since September 2024.

Nov 9, 2024

DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, economics, energy, law enforcement

The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years.

The seizure and arrests were conducted as part of “Operation PowerOFF,” an ongoing international law enforcement operation that targets DDoS-for-hire platforms, aka “booters” or “stressers,” to seize infrastructure and arrest the operators.

These platforms are responsible for service disruptions to online services and can cause significant economic damages, as well as impact to the operation of critical services, such as healthcare.

Nov 9, 2024

The reasons flowers wilt could explain how plants spend (and save) their energy

Posted by in category: futurism

A study in the journal Plant Biology by researchers from Macquarie University and international collaborators has shown for the first time that reuse resources from wilting flowers to support future reproduction.

Lead author Honorary Professor Graham Pyke from Macquarie University says the findings help explain a common but poorly understood plant process.

“Our research delivers the first direct demonstration that plants can salvage resources from wilting flowers and reuse these resources to promote future reproduction,” Professor Pyke says.

Nov 9, 2024

Black hole study challenges Kerr solution assumptions

Posted by in category: cosmology

Black holes continue to captivate scientists: they are purely gravitational objects, remarkably simple, yet capable of hiding mysteries that challenge our understanding of natural laws. Most observations thus far have focused on their external characteristics and surrounding environment, leaving their internal nature largely unexplored.

Nov 9, 2024

EA Claims Linux Is Path for “Exploits and Cheats”

Posted by in category: computing

No more Apex Legends on Steam Deck.

Nov 9, 2024

This “AI-Generated Game” Blatantly Rips Off Minecraft

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

The most observant of our readers might have already noticed a small little detail about Oasis, a caveat that only the most eagle-eyed OSINT enthusiasts would catch – it’s basically a 1-to-1 copy of Mojang’s Minecraft.

And those readers would be right. Essentially, the “first AI-generated game” is nothing more than blatant plagiarism of everyone’s favorite sandbox, trained on thousands of hours of Minecraft gameplay and recordings of corresponding user actions, which resulted in a nearly identical, but worse in every aspect, “game” with a similar visual style, UI, gameplay mechanics, fonts, visual effects, animations, and so on.

One thing that doesn’t exist in the original Minecraft but is front and center in Oasis is, of course, AI hallucinations. Those who have tried it confirm that the experience is incredibly unstable, with environments often morphing into something else when not in the player’s direct line of sight, making the “first AI-generated game” a proof of concept at best, something that its creators, to their credit, openly admit, describing the current iteration of Oasis as a “technical demo.”

Nov 9, 2024

Engineer Moves Landscapes with Her Hands

Posted by in category: futurism

Kat Zhang is back with more tactile magic.

Nov 9, 2024

Greg Hildebrandt, influential artist for Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Magic: The Gathering, has died

Posted by in category: futurism

Hildebrandt died on October 31, aged 85.

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