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September 3, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Mobile Security The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday affected the TP-Link TL-WA855RE Wi-Fi Ranger Extender product, affected the known exploitation catalogue, and cited evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-24363 (CVSS score: 8.8) is related to cases where authentication is missing that could be abused to gain increased access to sensitive devices. “The vulnerability allows unidentified attackers (on the same network) to send factory reset and restart TDDP_RESET POST requests,” the agency said. “Attackers can obtain incorrect access controls by setting a new administrative password.” According to Malwrforensics, this issue has been fixed…
September 3, 2025Ravi LakshmananData Breach/Threat Intelligence, SalesLoft on Tuesday announced that several companies will be temporarily collecting drifts offline in the “very near future” as they are caught up in a widespread supply chain attack targeting marketing software as a service, resulting in mass theft of certified tokens. “This provides the fastest path to comprehensively reviewing applications, building additional resilience and security within the system, and bringing applications back to full functionality,” the company said. “As a result, the customer website’s drift chatbot is not available and drift is not accessible.” The company said its top priority is ensuring the…
The enormous impact structure, including the potential ruins of the ancient “Protoplanet,” may lurk deeply beneath the surface of Mars, with hints for new research. The mystical mass, which has been completely preserved within the motionless organs of the Red Planet for billions of years, may trace back to the beginning of the solar system.In a new study published August 28th in Journal Science, researchers analyzed “Marsquake” data collected by NASA’s Insight Lander. This met an untimely end mise from dust that monitored the tremor beneath the Mars surface from 2018 to 2022 and blocked solar panels. By seeing how…
According to a new analysis, the 1,000-year-old “King” work of Viking board games is one of the few portrayals of the Viking era rulers.”This person portrays a king in the late 10th century,” Peter Penz, an archaeologist at the National Museum of Danish, told Live Science. This work dates to the reign of Harald Bluetooth (around 958-986 AD), one of the most famous Viking Kings. And it was discovered within his territory, including southern Norway and parts of Sweden.But it’s from the right time and place, but Penz is careful not to insist that it portrays Harald Bluetooth himself. “I’m…
While Google will not be forced to dissolve its search business, federal judges have tentatively ordered other changes to Tech Giant’s business practices, preventing further anti-competitive action. US District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta on Tuesday outlined a remedy that prohibits Google from entering or maintaining exclusive transactions that links the distribution of searches, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini to other apps or revenue arrangements. For example, Google cannot condition a PlayStore license for the distribution of a particular app or tie up revenue share payments to maintain a particular app. Google must share certain search indexes and user interaction…
While Google will not be forced to dissolve its search business, federal judges have tentatively ordered other changes to Tech Giant’s business practices, preventing further anti-competitive action. US District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta on Tuesday outlined a remedy that prohibits Google from entering or maintaining exclusive transactions that links the distribution of searches, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini to other apps or revenue arrangements. For example, Google cannot condition a PlayStore license for the distribution of a particular app or tie up revenue share payments to maintain a particular app. Google must share certain search indexes and user interaction…
The approximately 1.8 million-year-old Homoerectus Jawbone, discovered in the Republic of Georgia, may be evidence of one of the earliest human groups living outside of Africa.The discoveries, released on July 31 by the Georgia National Cultural Heritage Preservation Agency, shed new light on the evolution of our genus Homo, and are expected to “reveal the reasons for the early human migration from Africa,” according to Giorgi Bidzinashvili, an archaeologist at Ilia State University in Tbilisi.Bidzinashvili has been leading excavations since 2020 at an early Stone Age site in Orosmani, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi. Researchers…
In a blog post on Tuesday, Openai announced it has acquired product testing startup Statsig and agreed to introduce founder and CEO Vijaye Raji as CTO for its applications. Openai paid Statsig $1.1 billion, one of the biggest acquisitions ever for the ChatGpt maker, and under its current $300 billion valuation, Openai spokesman Kayla Wood told TechCrunch. The acquisition marks Openai’s latest efforts to build an application business led by Fidji Simo, former CEO of Instacart, who started working for the company a few weeks ago. Raji reports to SIMO and will lead the company’s AI coding tool Codex, and…
The story contains a suicide argument. If you or someone you know need help, the US Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is open 24/7 by sending a call or text message to 988.Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots can provide detailed and disturbing responses to what clinical experts consider to be a very high-risk question about suicide, and Live Science discovered using queries developed by new research.In a new study published in the Journal of Psychiatry Services on August 26, researchers evaluated how Openai’s ChatGpt, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude responded to suicide-related questions. The study found that ChatGpt was most likely to…
Tesla has published its fourth “Master Plan,” with a high level of information on how the company wants to guide its billing into the adoption of humanoid robots and the planet of sustainable energy. However, this post does not have a key component of the plan: details. Even CEO Elon Musk agrees. In one of his only posts about the plan, which has been caught between a steady stream of transphobia and immigration panic since it was released Monday — he agreed that it would be fair to criticize the lack of details, saying the company would add more. Who…