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Over the past year, security researchers have been urging the global shipping industry to strengthen its cyber defenses after a spate of cargo thefts by hackers. Researchers say they witnessed an elaborate hack that targeted a logistics company to hijack a large number of customers’ products and redirect them into the hands of criminals, marking an alarming collusion between hackers and real-life organized crime groups. There’s a stolen e-cig delivery truck here, and there’s a suspected lobster robbery. One of the lesser-known but important US maritime technology companies has spent the past few months patching its systems after a number…

As the online safety of minors continues to be a focus internationally, YouTube and other social media platforms are increasing parental controls. The Google-owned platform announced Wednesday that it is introducing additional parental controls, especially regarding the amount of time children and teens spend watching YouTube Shorts. Image credit: YouTube Parents can now set a timer for how long their children’s connected accounts spend watching short videos (YouTube’s equivalent of TikToks or Instagram Reels), reducing the chance of them wasting time mindlessly scrolling. Parents can also permanently or temporarily block their children from watching short videos on their account altogether,…

New observations of a strange galaxy show it was slowly starved to death by its own black hole.Two telescopes peer deep into space at the galaxy GS-10578, dubbed “Pablo’s Galaxy” after the astronomer who previously studied it. The galaxy is large for its age, with a mass about 200 billion times that of our Sun, and most of its stars have been shining between 11.5 billion and 12.5 billion years ago. (For reference, the age of the universe is approximately 13.8 billion years.)To the surprise of scientists, they found that supermassive black holes embedded in galaxies were slowly removing the…

AI agents have rapidly moved from experimental tools to core components of daily workflows across security, engineering, IT, and operations. What began as personal code assistants, chatbots, and co-pilots to help individuals improve their productivity have evolved into shared agents across the organization embedded in critical processes. These agents can coordinate workflows across multiple systems. For example: HR agents that provision or deprovision accounts across IAM, SaaS apps, VPNs, and cloud platforms based on HR system updates. A change management agent that validates change requests, updates configurations on production systems, records approvals in ServiceNow, and updates documentation in Confluence. Customer…

Tesla is eliminating the option to pay a one-time fee for its fully self-driving (supervised) driver assistance software, CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday. From now on, the only way to access this feature will be through a monthly subscription. The changes represent a major shift from the way Tesla has sold access to its advanced driver assistance suite for years. It’s also a decision that could affect Tesla’s bottom line, Mr. Musk’s ability to maximize the value of his $1 trillion pay package, and the company’s swirling legal troubles. And it comes as many other global automakers are developing their…

MIT engineers say stacking circuit components on top of each other could be a solution to creating more energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) chips. Logic and memory components each perform calculations and store data. These components can transfer data more easily when they are in direct contact than when they are separated.The research team created so-called “memory transistors,” which consist of both logic elements (transistors) and memory elements that can perform calculations. The nanoscale devices have relatively few electrical defects, meaning they can operate faster with less power, the scientists said in two studies presented at the International Electronic Devices Conference…

Security experts have detailed an active malware campaign that exploits a DLL sideloading vulnerability in legitimate binaries related to the open source c-ares library to bypass security controls and deliver a wide range of commodity Trojans and stealers. “The attacker achieves evasion by combining the malicious libcares-2.dll with a signed version of the legitimate ahost.exe (often renamed) to execute code,” Trellix said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “This DLL sideloading technique allows malware to evade traditional signature-based security defenses.” This campaign has been observed distributing a wide variety of malware, including Agent Tesla, CryptBot, Formbook, Lumma Stealer,…

Nanize’s patented technology creates a durable, functional, PFAS-free coating that fully crosslinks and covalently bonds to the substrate within one minute at temperatures below 70°C. Nanize has developed a patented coating and curing technology that hydrolyzes polysilazane containing functional nanoadditives to create a glass-like, fully cross-linked and covalently bonded surface. Our versatile PFAS-free solutions offer unparalleled durability, ultra-low friction, and cure in less than 1 minute at temperatures below 70°C without catalysts. Uncompromising coatings proven by testing Over 20,000 individual tests resulted in extensive laboratory validation of the nanized coating, including FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy), to verify polymer crosslinking,…

Meta will lay off 10% of its staff in its Reality Labs division, which is central to the development of its VR and Metaverse products, The New York Times reported. The magazine noted that Reality Labs employs about 15,000 people, and the layoffs could affect more than 1,000 people. Separately, CNBC reported that the company plans to shut down studios like Armature Studio, Twisted Pixel, and Sanzaru, as well as a technology division called Oculus Studios Central Technology that developed VR titles. Business Insider reported that Andrew Bosworth, the company’s CTO and director of Reality Labs, called for the “most…

Paleoanthropologists have unveiled the world’s most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, an ancestor of humans who lived in northern Kenya more than 2 million years ago. Collection of fossil bones revealed unusually strong arms that distinguish H. habilis from later species.The bones were first discovered in 2012 by a team of researchers led by Meave Leakey of the Turkana Basin Research Institute, and subsequently presented at a research conference in 2015. Now, the full analysis of the remains is described in a paper published in the journal ‘The Anatomical Record’ on Tuesday (January 13).The skeleton, designated KNM-ER 64061, was discovered…