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New satellite images show that once the world’s largest iceberg, A23a, has turned into a beautiful mass of striped “blue mush”, signaling its imminent demise. This moribund ice mass, until recently three times the size of New York City, is one of the oldest ice masses on record and is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary.A23a is unique among icebergs. Dubbed the “Queen of the Icebergs,” the megaberg broke away from Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Sheet in the summer of 1986, but quickly became stuck in place when its submerged bottom caught on the ocean floor. For most of the past 40…
January 13, 2026Ravi Lakshmanan Web security/data theft Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a large-scale web skimming campaign that has been active since January 2022, targeting several major payment networks, including American Express, Diners Club, Discover, JCB Co., Ltd., Mastercard, and UnionPay. “Enterprise organizations that are customers of these payment providers are likely to be most affected,” Silent Push said in a report released today. Digital skimming attacks refer to a category of client-side attacks in which a malicious party compromises a legitimate e-commerce site or payment portal and injects malicious JavaScript code that can covertly collect credit card information and other…
January 13, 2026Ravi LakshmananWeb security/online fraud Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a malicious Google Chrome extension that can steal API keys related to MEXC, a centralized cryptocurrency exchange (CEX) available in more than 170 countries, while masquerading as a tool to automate transactions on the platform. The extension is called MEXC API Automator (ID: pppdfgkfdemgfknfnhpkibbkabhghhfh), has 29 downloads, and is still available in the Chrome Web Store at the time of writing. It was first published on September 1, 2025 by a developer named ‘jorjortan142’. “The extension programmatically creates new MEXC API keys, enables withdrawal privileges, hides them in the user…
NASA is making final preparations for the imminent launch of its Artemis 2 giant lunar rocket, with crewed flights around the moon scheduled to begin as early as February 6.The Artemis mission aims to return humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. The program is also scheduled to take the first woman to the moon.Artemis 2 is the mission program’s first human spaceflight. The four astronauts will complete a 10-day orbit around the moon and return to Earth ahead of the Artemis 3 mission, which aims to send astronauts to the moon’s surface by…
India’s Ministry of Labor has urged the country’s fast-growing quick-commerce sector to prioritize the health and safety of gig workers. The country’s Labor and Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has met with executives from Zomato’s Blinkit, Swiggy’s Instamart and Zepto to end marketing promises of 10-minute deliveries and discuss ways to improve the safety and working conditions of delivery workers, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. While the instant delivery model has stagnated in other countries, it has taken off at an unprecedented pace in India in recent years as urban consumers have grown accustomed to having everything from PlayStation 5 to…
It’s currently impossible to predict earthquakes before they occur, but scientists are inching closer to doing so with new and innovative ways to monitor the movement of the Earth’s crust. In this excerpt from When Worlds Quake: The Quest to Understand the Interior of Earth and Beyond (Princeton University Press, 2026), author Hrvoje Tokarčić, Chair of Geophysics at the Australian National University, delves into why earthquake prediction is so difficult, highlighting the Parkfield experiment, in which scientists waited nearly 20 years for an earthquake to occur on the San Andreas Fault.Under online newspaper articles, you can even read rude and…
AI voice generation startup ElevenLabs has generated more than $330 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), CEO Matti Staniszewski said in an interview with Bloomberg. “Really, what is this? [growth in ARR] It shows its trajectory throughout the company. “We founded the company in 2022 and launched our first product in 2023. It took us 20 months to reach $100 million in ARR, 10 months to reach $200 million, and five months to reach our current numbers,” he said. Staniszewski said both Fortune 500 companies and startups are adopting the company’s voice agent technology, using enterprise data and knowledge bases…
Apple is launching a new Creator Studio subscription bundle that provides access to premium content for six creative apps and iWork apps, the company announced Tuesday. This bundle costs $12.99 per month or $129 per year and includes access to Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro on Mac and iPad, as well as Motion, Compressor, and MainStage on Mac. Also includes premium content from Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. The bundle will then include Freeform for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. College students and educators can subscribe for $2.99 per month or $29.99 per year. Apple Creator Studio will be…
January 13, 2026hacker newsArtificial Intelligence/Automation Security AI agents no longer just write code. they are doing it. With tools like Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex, you can now build, test, and deploy software end-to-end in minutes. This speed is reshaping engineering, but it’s also creating security gaps that most teams don’t realize until something breaks. Behind every agent workflow is an actively secured layer called Machine Control Protocol (MCP). These systems silently determine what AI agents can do, what tools they can call, what APIs they can access, and what infrastructure they can access. When the control plane is compromised…
Portugal has signed the Artemis Accord, officially joining the growing list of countries committed to promoting responsible space exploration. The signing was led by Portugal’s Secretary of State for Science and Innovation, Helena Cañón, during a ceremony in Lisbon on the sidelines of the biannual U.S.-Portuguese Government Cooperation Conference. Portugal is the latest of 60 countries to approve the agreement, which strengthens its commitment to international cooperation on the Moon, Mars and broader space missions. Commenting on the signing, Hugo Costa, Director General of the Portuguese Space Agency, said: “2026 is the year humans will return to the moon. “This…