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New virus with genetic code written by AI 'is first step towards lab-grown life"
3+ hour, 52+ min ago (529+ words) Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to create a new virus to attack a colony of the deadly E.coli bacteria. The team at Stanford University, California used AI…...
Criminal database exposes 48,000,000 Gmail account passwords
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (384+ words) Some 48 million Gmail usernames and passwords have been leaked in a criminal database. The full database contains 149 million compromised credentials, including 17 million Facebook accounts, 6.5 million Instagram accounts, and 4 million Yahoo usernames and passwords. It was publicly available for one whole…...
The manosphere 'wizards' behind the deepfake epidemic sweeping social media
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1615+ words) It's a weekday night and I'm deep in the manosphere forums again, clicking through pictures of naked women uploaded without consent by the thousands of men who habitually visit these disturbing message boards. One asks: "Wizards, I can't stand this…...
Hacker deletes 'Tinder for Nazis' and leaks thousands of profiles online
2+ week, 5+ day ago (419+ words) The profiles of thousands of people who joined a white supremacist dating site have been leaked online after it was hacked. An anonymous hacker broke into WhiteDate and deleted it " but not before downloading the 100 gigabytes of data behind it....
Buses in Britain could be turned off by Chinese 'kill switch'
3+ week, 49+ min ago (577+ words) An in-built "kill switch" could cause hundreds of electric buses in Britain to be remotely turned off by China, British security services have warned. Buses on the roads could stop working or be switched off completely over the internet, officials…...
Man proves he's skilled enough for top Australian visa - by hacking the government website
3+ week, 4+ day ago (482+ words) A British man has been granted Australia's rarest visa " typically given to Nobel Prize laureates and Olympians " after hacking into the government system. Jacob'Riggs, from Bexley, London, is a self-described "ethical hacker' who had set his sights on the 858 National…...
Apple warns all iPhone users of critical zero day security vulnerabilities
3+ week, 5+ day ago (519+ words) Apple users have been warned to update their devices, after a critical security bug is thought to have been used in targeted attacks. In a run-through of the updates, Apple said it was "aware of a report that this issue…...
Is the Online Safety Act helping porn addicts recover?
4+ week, 2+ day ago (671+ words) From the very early days of the internet, Brits had almost limitless access to porn of all kinds " hardcore, softcore, legal and questionable. It was so readily available that many got their first experience of adult content by accident, with…...
Spotify confirms data breach after pirate activist group scrapes and releases 86
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (460+ words) An activist group which says it wants to back-up the entirety of human culture claims it has illegally copied nearly every track listened to on Spotify. Anna's Archive, which is blocked in the UK, has already copied over 60 million books…...
iPhone users urged to update phone as Apple backtracks on update users ‘hate’
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (926+ words) Apple, as part of iOS 26.2, is letting users reduce the intensity of the liquid glass design on their iPhone's home screen. If you're finding the "liquid glass' iPhone design a bit much, there's good news. Apple has backtracked on the…...