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Spotify announced an expansion to its premium audiobook service on Thursday. It features two new plans that will provide subscribers with additional listening time and allow other families to access the services. This option is currently available only to Spotify premium users in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, after undergoing their first tests in Ireland and Canada. US users can already purchase 15 hours of listening as a standalone offer via Audiobook Access Plans, but these additions allow people in other markets to customize their access to their needs. The first…
July 17, 2025Ravi LakshmananCryptocurrency/Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that offers cryptocurrency miners called Linuxsys, leveraging known security flaws affecting Apache HTTP servers. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2021-41773 (CVSS score: 7.5). This is a high-strength past traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP server version 2.4.49 that can lead to remote code execution. “Attackers leverage the compromised legal website to distribute malware, allowing stealth delivery and detection to be avoided,” Vulncheck said in a report they share with Hacker News. Infection sequence observed earlier this month and originated from the Indonesian IP address 103.193.177[.]152 is designed to drop the…
In recent years, biodegradable plastics have been considered a potential alternative to traditional plastics. However, researchers remain uncertain about the difference in impact on the agricultural sector and whether it is more beneficial than traditional plastics. The team of researchers investigated these questions by examining two types of microplastics: traditional microplastics, polypropylene (PP) and polyechen (PE) and biodegradable microplastics, polycaprolactone (PCL) and polybutylene adipate terephthalic acid (PBAT). A team led by Dr. Tidag from New Jiang University and Nimbo University selected peas as the experimental crop. This crop adds plastic to the soil at doses of 0%, 0.1% and 1%.…
Uber is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in EV maker Lucid and Autonomous Vehicle Technology Startup Nuro to launch its own premium Robotaxi service. Under the deal announced Thursday, Uber will invest $300 million in Lucid and will “at least” buy 20,000 new gravity SUVs from EV Maker separately over the next six years. These EVs will be equipped with Nuro’s self-driving vehicle systems, and the vehicles will be owned and operated by Uber or its third-party fleet partners. Uber plans to launch Robotaxi services in major US cities next year. Production of these revised Bright Id gravity cars…
The fast-growing Swedish AI vibe coding startup Lovable has become Europe’s latest unicorn. Just eight months after its launch, the startup raised a $200 million Series A round led by Accel at a $1.8 billion valuation. Like cursors and other platforms that help developers leverage the coding and inference capabilities of large language models to create code and build apps, Stockholm-based Lovable helps people create websites and apps using natural language. So far, the startup trajectory has charted straight into the sky, claiming it now has more than 2.3 million active users. These users use free and lovable things to…
The newly developed bionic knee can help people with over-knee amputations walk and climb more easily than traditional prosthetics can.The new prosthesis, described in Journal Science on July 10, connects to the user’s legs via a titanium rod attached to the femur and an electrode permanently implanted into the leg muscles. In addition to improving athletic ability, prostheses helped users feel a greater sense of ownership and agency than prosthetic limbs, the researchers said.”The tissue-integrated prosthesis – fixed to the bone and directly controlled by the nervous system – is not merely a separate, lifeless device, but a system carefully…
The international operations coordinated by Europol disrupt the infrastructure of a Russian hacktivist group known as NonMAME057 (16), which is associated with a series of distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against Ukraine and its allies. This action has dismantled most of the group’s central server infrastructure and over 100 systems around the world. The joint efforts included two arrests in France and Spain, searching two dozen homes in Spain, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, France and Poland, and issuing a warrant for arrests for six Russian citizens. Operation Eastwood took place between July 14th and 17th, with authorities from…
The modern threat landscape requires enterprise security teams to think and act beyond traditional cybersecurity measures that are purely passive and reactive, and most often ineffective against new threats and sophisticated threat actors. Cybersecurity prioritization means implementing more proactive, adaptive and practical measures that can be collaborated to effectively deal with the threats that impact your business most. Ideally, these measures should include ongoing threat exposure management (CTEM) program implementation, vulnerability management, and attack surface management (ASM). With CTEM, vulnerability management, and ASM, it uniquely complements each other, so it’s not a question of which is “better” or “more effective.”…
Roblox announced Thursday it will launch new safeguards for people aged 13 to 18. The company introduces “trusted connections” to allow these users to connect more freely with people they know, along with age estimation techniques, more privacy tools and insights from teenage parents. Roblox has been firing in recent years about how to deal with child safety. In April, Florida Attorney General James Usmieyer issued a subpoena to Roblox in response to reports that children were exposed to harmful material on the platform and that predatory adults could send messages to minors on the app. The changes announced Thursday…
The new project is set up to ensure a future supply of niobium, a non-critical but rare and important metal and an essential component of carbon recycling technology. The closed-loop carbon recycling approach pioneered by the University of Birmingham and Brazil-based CBMM could fundamentally reduce emissions from energy and carbon-intensive basic industries. CBMM will work with researchers at the University of Birmingham, led by Professor Yulong Ding, to increase production efficiency and reduce the cost of niobium compounds for use in steel loop technology. “Fundamental industries such as steel manufacturing, which provide essential materials for a wide range of other…