These are the best gadgets for your pet at the moment
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. […]
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
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 […]
The dumbest things that happened in tech this year
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 […]
IBM warns of critical API Connect bug that allows remote authentication bypass
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 […]
Researchers discover modified Shai-Hulud worm test payload on npm registry
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 […]
Centuries-old ‘trophy head’ discovered in Peru reveals it survived to adulthood despite birth defects
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 […]
Myanmar’s big earthquake was very smooth and efficient – and it leaves lessons for ‘big earthquakes’
The fault that struck Myanmar in March tore through hundreds of miles of the earth’s surface, highly efficient in transferring energy from deep underground to the surface. In many earthquakes, the underground moves more than the surface. But the earthquake on the Sagaing Fault was different, a new study shows, because it moved the surface […]
Diagnostic dilemma: A rare condition leaves a man with ‘scales’ on his hands every time he washes them.
Patient: Male in his 20s living in China Symptoms: A man visited a hospital dermatology department after experiencing various symptoms for about three years. When the man soaked his hands in water, such as when washing his hands, the skin on the back of his hands became thicker, more wrinkled, and white bumps and tumors […]
My phone went off. Please live long. . . What exactly?
John Callahan, co-founder of True Ventures, believes that in five years we won’t be using smartphones the way we do now, and in 10 years we might not be using them at all. For venture capitalists with two decades of big winners from consumer brands like Fitbit, Ring, and Peloton to enterprise software makers HashiCorp […]
US Treasury lifts sanctions on three people involved in Intellexa and Predator spyware
December 31, 2026Ravi LakshmananSpyware/Mobile Security The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday removed three individuals associated with the Intellexa Consortium, the holding company for the commercial spyware known as “Predator,” from its list of Specially Designated Nationals. The names of the individuals are: Merom Harpas Andrea Nicola Constantino Hermes Gambazzi […]