China planted so many trees that the entire country’s water distribution changed
China’s efforts to slow land degradation and climate change by planting trees and restoring grasslands are moving water around the country in huge and unexpected ways, a new study finds. From 2001 to 2020, vegetation changes reduced the amount of freshwater available to humans and ecosystems in the eastern monsoon region and northwestern arid region, […]
Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Scam
The threat actor known as Water Saci is actively evolving its tactics, switching to sophisticated, highly layered infection chains that use HTML application (HTA) files and PDFs to propagate a worm that deploys a banking Trojan via WhatsApp in attacks targeting users in Brazil. The latest wave is characterized by attackers moving from PowerShell to […]
Death Valley’s “world’s highest temperature” record may be due to human error
Death Valley has held the record for the hottest temperature ever measured near Earth’s surface for 112 years, but now scientists are calling for that title to be revoked. According to data from the National Weather Service, temperatures at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley reached a scorching 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius) on July […]
Autolane is building “air traffic control” for self-driving cars
The rapid adoption of robotaxis by companies like Waymo and Zoox has industry players once again dreaming about how self-driving cars will change our daily lives. This includes driverless taxi rides, of course, but also brainier ideas like sending self-driving cars to pick up groceries or pick up dry cleaning. If that ultimately happens, navigating […]
The community has no expectations of raising $5 million and hopes to be “IPO ready” within three years.
Hardware maker Nothing is letting its userbase buy its stock as part of a new $5 million community investment round. The new round, which begins Dec. 10, will allow consumers to buy shares in the company at a Series C valuation of $1.3 billion. The company announced that it has raised a total of $8 […]
India lifts obligation to pre-install government apps on smartphones after intense backlash
India has backed away from a plan to force smartphone makers to pre-install government apps on all devices, following backlash and growing concerns that the mandate would give the state greater access to users’ devices and weaken privacy protections. India’s telecom ministry said Wednesday that anti-theft and cybersecurity protection app Sanchar Saathi will remain optional […]
When an AI algorithm is labeled as “female-friendly”, people are more likely to abuse it
People are more likely to exploit female AI partners than male AI partners, indicating that gender-based discrimination has implications beyond human interactions. A recent study published November 2 in the journal iScience investigated how people’s willingness to cooperate changes when their human or AI partner is not labeled as female, nonbinary, male, or gender. The […]
Discover the AI tools that will fuel the next cybercrime wave — watch the webinar
December 3, 2025hacker newsCybercrime/Artificial Intelligence Remember when phishing emails were easy to spot? Bad grammar, weird formatting, and a request from a “prince” in a faraway land? Those days are over. Today, a 16-year-old with zero coding skills and $200 in pocket money can launch a campaign that rivals state-sponsored hackers. They don’t have to […]
Diagnostic dilemma: Woman develops rare parasitic lung infection after eating raw frog
Patient: 32-year-old female living in Shanghai Symptoms: A woman presented to the hospital with a persistent cough that occasionally produced bloody sputum, and coughed 2 to 3 times a day. She said the cough started four months before she visited the hospital. Then, about a month before the cough started, she developed a fever that […]
James Webb Telescope discovers strange ‘superpuff’ planet chasing its own atmosphere through space
A “super-inflated” exoplanet is leaking massive amounts of helium into space and may be losing much of its atmosphere, new observations show. A large plume of helium gas has been discovered evaporating from a giant planet known as WASP-107b, according to a study based on observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The results, […]