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When is the next full moon?January’s full moon, known as the Wolf Moon, will rise on Saturday, January 3rd, making it the second highest full moon of the year. The moon will be full at exactly 5:03 a.m. ET and will remain bright and full on Friday (January 2) and Sunday (January 4).The full Wolf Moon is the last of four consecutive supermoons, following the Harvest Moon in October, the Beaver Moon in November, and the Cold Moon in December.A supermoon occurs when a full moon rises near perigee (the point closest to Earth on its elliptical orbit) and appears…
Medicine stands on the precipice of an exciting new era.We are closer than ever to achieving functional treatments for once intractable diseases, including HIV. Stem cell therapy is repairing invisible damage and stabilizing failing hearts. New cancer treatments are expected to extend patients’ lives and reduce the likelihood that the disease will return. And cutting-edge treatments are saving children from devastating genetic diseases.But while the promise of decades of medical research is coming true, the foundations of the field are under attack. At a time when long-held public health and medical research tenets are being eroded before our eyes, can…
December 31, 2026Ravi LakshmananSoftware security/data breach Trust Wallet revealed on Tuesday that a second supply chain Shai Huld (also known as Sha1 Huld) outbreak in November 2025 was likely responsible for the hacking of its Google Chrome extension, ultimately resulting in approximately $8.5 million in assets being stolen. “This attack exposed the secrets of our developer GitHub, allowing the attacker to access our browser extension source code and Chrome Web Store (CWS) API keys,” the company said in a post-mortem published Tuesday. “Through the compromised keys, the attacker gained full access to the CWS API and was able to upload…
The threat actors behind two malicious browser extension campaigns, ShadyPanda and GhostPoster, were behind a third attack campaign, codenamed DarkSpectre, that allegedly affected 2.2 million users of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox. This activity has been attributed to a Chinese threat actor and is being tracked by Koi Security under the name DarkSpectre. These campaigns have collectively impacted more than 8.8 million users over seven years. ShadyPanda was first exposed by the cybersecurity firm earlier this month as targeting users of all three browsers to facilitate data theft, search query hijacking, and affiliate fraud. 5.6 million users were…
Having a cute pet to call home is one of life’s great joys, but modern gadgets and AI technology make pet ownership even more fun and convenient. We’ve rounded up some gadgets that make perfect gifts for pet parents. Petlibro AI-powered pet camera – $99.99 Image credit:PetLibro Petlibro recently launched the AI-powered Scout Smart Camera. This allows pet owners to see what their little ones are doing in real time. The app allows you to control the camera’s line of sight and even automatically track your pet as it moves around. The camera has two-way audio, so you can talk…
Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the nuclear reaction that powers the sun to generate nearly limitless energy here on Earth. If startups are able to complete commercially viable fusion power plants, then they have the potential to upend trillion-dollar markets. The bullish wave buoying the fusion industry has been driven by three advances: more…
The tech industry moves so fast that it’s hard to keep up with just how much has happened this year. We’ve watched as the tech elite enmeshed themselves in the U.S. government, AI companies sparred for dominance, and futuristic tech like smart glasses and robotaxis became a bit more tangible outside of the San Francisco bubble. You know, important stuff that’s going to impact our lives for years to come. But the tech world is brimming with so many big personalities that there’s always something really dumb going on, which understandably gets overshadowed by “real news” when the entire internet…
December 31, 2026Ravi LakshmananAPI security/vulnerabilities IBM has detailed a critical security flaw in API Connect that could allow attackers to gain remote access to applications. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-13915 and is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0 in the CVSS scoring system. This is described as an authentication bypass flaw. “IBM API Connect may allow remote attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms and gain unauthorized access to applications,” the tech giant said in a bulletin. This drawback affects the following versions of IBM API Connect: 10.0.8.0 – 10.0.8.5 10.0.11.0 We recommend that customers follow the steps outlined…
December 31, 2026Ravi LakshmananCybersecurity/Malware Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details of what appears to be a new strain of Shai Huld on the npm registry, with some changes since the previous wave observed last month. The npm package that embeds the new Shai Hulud strain is ‘@vietmoney/react-big-calendar’ and was uploaded to npm by a user named ‘hoquocdat’ in March 2021. First updated to version 0.26.2 on December 28, 2025. This package has been downloaded 698 times since it was first published. The latest version has been downloaded 197 times. Aikido, who discovered the package, said that no major spread or infections…
Centuries ago, the heads of decapitated people in Peru were turned into “trophies.” Now, a careful look at this trophy head reveals that it survived into early adulthood despite potentially problematic birth defects.Beth Scafidi, assistant professor of anthropology and heritage studies at the University of California, Merced, writes in a new study that based on several photos of the head, researchers discovered that the person was born with a cleft lip.Cleft lip and palate are related conditions that cause babies to be born with gaps in their lips and palates. Research shows that they are one of the most common…