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On Wednesday, Spotify announced new features designed to introduce users to the people behind their favorite music, including producers, engineers, songwriters, and background vocalists. The company also plans to release tools that show how songs are connected and what inspired them. The second set of tools is introduced with a new interactive feature called SongDNA, which shows you what songs are sampled on a particular track, who covered the song, and what other projects the song’s collaborators may be involved with. Image credit: Spotify TechCrunch reported in October that Spotify was developing the SongDNA feature as a way to let…
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers resigned from OpenAI’s board days after Congress released a large cache of emails containing details of his intimate relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mr. Summers is a former president and current professor at Harvard University. The university will launch its own investigation into the relationship between Summers and Epstein, the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, reported. The university newspaper also reported that Summers would withdraw from public commitments. His resignation came a day after both the House and Senate voted to release the Epstein files. In the past few days, a House committee released…
CardLab provides passwordless biometric authentication to protect businesses and critical infrastructure from evolving cyber threats. Additionally, we added FIDO-certified biometric cards and server login solutions. Cybersecurity and digital convenience are hot topics right now, and Card Lab anticipated and addressed them by adapting our current strategic focus. With global cybercrime costs expected to reach $9.22 trillion in 2024 and jump to $14 trillion by 2028, we must recognize that the introduction of quantum computing is failing traditional security measures. Credential theft, human error, cyber warfare, social engineering, and abuse of privilege, such as sharing credentials and passwords, pose significant risks…
November 19, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Threat Intelligence A newly discovered campaign has compromised tens of thousands of obsolete or end-of-life (EoL) ASUS routers around the world, primarily in Taiwan, the United States, and Russia, and connected them to large networks. This router hijacking activity has been codenamed “Operation WrtHug” by SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team. Southeast Asia and European countries are other regions where infections have been recorded. The attack may involve exploiting six known security flaws in the end-of-life ASUS WRT router to gain control of susceptible devices. All infected routers were found to share their own self-signed TLS certificates with expiration dates…
Swedish vibe-coding unicorn Lovable has doubled its annual recurring revenue (ARR) to $200 million in just four months, co-founder and CEO Anton Osika said on stage at technology conference Slush 2025 in Helsinki, Finland. The milestone comes just four months after the one-year-old company surpassed $100 million in ARR in July. Osika credited the AI-assisted coding software maker’s decision not to relocate to Silicon Valley as a key reason for its success so far. Osika said LaBable decided to remain in Europe despite receiving a lot of early advice that the company would only succeed if it left the region…
The challenge facing security leaders is securing an environment where failure is not an option. Relying on traditional security postures such as endpoint detection and response (EDR) to track threats that enter a network is fundamentally risky and contributes significantly to the $5 trillion annual cost of cybercrime. Zero Trust fundamentally changes this approach, moving from responding to symptoms to proactively solving the root problem. Application control, the ability to precisely define what software is allowed to run, is the cornerstone of this strategy. However, even once an application is trusted, it can still be exploited. This is where ThreatLocker…
Bioforcetech, a leading Bay Area-based environmental technology company, has reached a significant milestone in PFAS removal. Independent testing has confirmed that its advanced Sigma pyrolysis system removes 99.98% of PFAS compounds from all waste streams, including biosolids, wastewater, and exhaust gases. This result represents the most comprehensive validation of system performance to date. Extensive testing confirms high efficiency This rigorous study, conducted by engineering experts at Brown and Caldwell, included sampling at eight points throughout the Bioforcetech process. The results revealed that the thermal oxidizer, located before the exhaust gas scrubbing stage, is where the majority of PFAS destruction occurs.…
Kissing may have been around long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests.Kissing dates back some 21 million years to the common ancestor of humans and other great apes, according to a study published Wednesday (Nov. 19) in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. Homo sapiens, on the other hand, likely appeared about 300,000 years ago.The researchers also concluded that kissing was most likely practiced in Neanderthals, modern humans’ closest extinct relatives, and that Neanderthals and modern humans may have kissed each other. you may like “This is the first time that kissing has been investigated from a…
As the threat of antibiotic resistance increases around the world, GSK and the Fleming Initiative have announced six research programs aimed at halting the rise in drug-resistant infections. Combining advanced AI, cutting-edge laboratory science, and international collaboration, these “grand challenges” aim to develop new treatments, improve prescribing practices, and strengthen global strategies against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The move comes at a critical time, with recent WHO data showing that one in six bacterial infections is resistant to currently available antibiotics, and deaths are expected to skyrocket over the next 30 years unless urgent action is taken. Growing global crisis The…
Scientists have traced the origin of the most massive black hole merger ever observed, revealing how two “impossible” giants formed despite long-held assumptions that such objects should not exist.These black holes were considered “forbidden” because it was thought that stars of that size would blow themselves up in extremely powerful explosions, leaving no debris behind that could collapse into a black hole.New research shows that rapidly rotating and magnetized stars could collapse in unexpected ways, producing black holes within this forbidden mass range and setting the stage for a giant merger event known as GW231123. you may like The discovery…