This cybersecurity veteran who has been fighting malware for decades is now hacking drones
Mikko Hyppenen paces up and down the stage, his trademark dark blonde ponytail perched atop a perfect teal suit. A seasoned public speaker, he’s about to make an important point to a room full of fellow hackers and security researchers at one of the industry’s annual global conferences. “I like to call it ‘Cybersecurity Tetris,’” […]
This week’s science news: Artemis II launches, cures diabetes in mice, China’s smog forms arctic storm
The launch of NASA’s long-awaited Artemis II mission dominated science news this week, and excitement reached a fever pitch on Wednesday (April 1) when the space agency’s first manned mission to the moon in more than 50 years lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. At 6:35 p.m. EDT, millions of people around the world watched […]
I have witnessed nearly 100 rocket launches. Artemis II was unlike anything I had ever experienced before.
Freelance space writer Roger Guilmette has witnessed nearly 100 rocket launches since 1975. On Wednesday (April 1), he was on the ground at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, giving Live Science a live broadcast of the Artemis II moon launch. Here’s what he saw at the historic launch: At the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) press site […]
Anthropic is having a moment in the private market. SpaceX could ruin the party
Glenn Anderson has been brokering equity deals for private companies since 2010, when he could count the number of institutional investors interested in late-stage private markets on two hands. There are now thousands, he says. As president of investment bank Rainmaker Securities, which focuses on the private securities market and facilitates trading in about 1,000 […]
Lucid blames poor first quarter sales on seat supplier issues
Lucid Group ended 2025 on a strong note, producing twice as many EVs as the previous year and reporting a 55% increase in sales. And now the first quarter of 2026 has arrived. The company, which makes the Air sedan and Gravity SUV, said Friday that it sold 3,093 units in the first quarter, down […]
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OpenAI’s executive changes include a new role for COO Brad Lightcap to lead “special projects”
Several OpenAI executives are being moved to new roles, Bloomberg reports. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the personnel changes to TechCrunch. AGI Development CEO Fiji Simo announced in a memo that OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap is taking on a new role leading “special projects” that involve “complex transactions and investments across the company.” He […]
China-linked TA416 targets European governments with PlugX and OAuth-based phishing
China-aligned threat actors have been targeting European governments and diplomatic institutions since mid-2025, after two years of minimal targeting in the region. This campaign is attributed to TA416, a cluster of activity that overlaps with DarkPeony, RedDelta, Red Lich, SmugX, UNC6384, and Vertigo Panda. “This TA416 activity included multiple waves of web bug and malware […]
The last day of the Tesla Model X and S has arrived. All bets are on Cybercab.
The crisis has been looming for weeks, but now the end is near. There are only a few hundred Tesla Model S and Model X vehicles left unsold. Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed in a post on X this week that custom orders for the Model S sedan and Model X SUV have ended. “Only […]
European cyber agency blames hacking group for massive data breaches and leaks
The European Union Cybersecurity Agency announced Thursday that recent hacks and data breaches at EU executive agencies were the work of a cybercrime group known as TeamPCP. CERT-EU said in a new report that hackers stole about 92 gigabytes of compressed data from a compromised Amazon Web Services (AWS) account used by the EU’s executive […]