Channel Surfer lets you watch YouTube like old-school cable TV
There’s a fun new way to watch YouTube. It’s channel surfing like a baby boomer on cable TV. This creative idea comes from London-based developer Steven Irby. He just launched a web app called Channel Surfer, which displays interesting YouTube videos in an interface that resembles a retro TV guide. The app lets you browse […]
Why Rivian will keep the $45,000 base model R2 until “late 2027”
Rivian on Thursday revealed specs and pricing details for its core R2 SUV, but the company also finally answered an age-old question: When will customers be able to buy the promised $45,000 base model? According to the company’s press materials, the answer is “late 2027.” And there’s a catch. The language Rivian is currently using […]
Tinder tries to lure people back to online dating with IRL events and virtual speed dating
Tinder held its first product keynote on Thursday, announcing ambitious updates aimed at revitalizing the product, making it more secure, and leveraging AI. This follows Match Group’s $50 million investment in product development announced last August, as the parent company looks to recapture its user base and attract younger Gen Z daters. Some of the […]
Children wearing bronze ‘warrior’ belts discovered in 2,500-year-old cemetery in Italy
Archaeologists in southern Italy have discovered the grave of two children buried with large bronze bands around 2,500 years ago. Metal accessories are unusual because they are usually found only in adult male burials of the pre-Roman Samnite culture. During recent work at the site of a former tobacco factory in Ponte Cagnano, a town […]
Congo Basin’s ‘blackwater’ lakes and rivers are now releasing ancient carbon into the atmosphere
Blackwater lakes and rivers in the Congo Basin are releasing ancient carbon into the atmosphere, a new study has found. Previously, scientists thought this carbon was safely stored in the surrounding peatlands, but this study shows that this is not the case. The finding contradicts the long-held assumption that old peat carbon remains locked underground […]
Rust-based VENON malware targets 33 Brazilian banks with credential-stealing overlay
Ravi LakshmananMarch 12, 2026Malware/Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details of a new banking malware written in Rust that targets users in Brazil. This is significantly different from other known Delphi-based malware families associated with the Latin American cybercrime ecosystem. The malware is designed to infect Windows systems and was first discovered last month, codenamed VENON […]
Hive0163 uses AI-assisted Slopoly malware for persistent access in ransomware attacks
Ravi LakshmananMarch 12, 2026Artificial intelligence/malware Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details of a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-generated malware codenamed “Slopoly” used by a financially motivated attacker named Hive0163. “Although AI-generated malware like Slopoly is still relatively under the radar, it shows how easily threat actors can weaponize AI and develop new malware frameworks in a fraction […]
Scientists use ‘negative light’ to send secret messages hidden in heat
Researchers have developed a technique that invisibly transmits information disguised as background thermal radiation. They used a phenomenon called “negative light” to transmit 100 kilobits of data per second in a way that was completely imperceptible to outside observers. Most methods of hiding data in transit involve hiding the data within other data or encrypting […]
The James Webb telescope reveals that the interstellar messenger 3I/ATLAS may be as old as the universe itself.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is up to 12 billion years old, unlike anything found in our solar system, new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations suggest. Comet 3I/ATLAS became a celestial celebrity last year after an interstellar visitor was discovered hurtling through space near us. Soon after, speculation spread online that the space rock could be […]
Gumloop wins $50M from Benchmark and turns all employees into AI agent builders
When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using AI. At the time, the concept of AI agents was still largely experimental and error-prone. As AI technology has matured, so have Gumloop’s services. The company claims that teams at organizations like Shopify, Ramp, Gusto, Samsara, Instacart, […]