Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader shares a report: Nvidia released a new driver update for its GeForce graphics cards that, among other things, introduced a new Video Super Resolution upscaling technology that could make low-resolution videos look better on high-res… Continue reading Nvidia Driver Bug Might Make Your CPU Work Harder After You Close Your Game
Longtime Slashdot reader theshowmecanuck shares a report from CBS News: A 2012 trip to a Fayetteville, Arkansas, Walmart to pick up some milk turned out to be one for the history books. A giant bug that stopped a scientist in his tracks as he walked in… Continue reading Scientist Finds Rare Jurassic Era Bug At Arkansas Walmart, Kills It and Puts It On a Pin
Since the earliest versions of the iPhone, “The ability to dynamically execute code was nearly completely removed,” write security researchers at Trellix, “creating a powerful barrier for exploits which would need to find a way around these mitigations… Continue reading Security Researchers Warn of a ‘New Class’ of Apple Bugs
The Zero Day Initiative, a zero-day security research firm, announced a new Linux kernel security bug that allows authenticated remote users to disclose sensitive information and run code on vulnerable Linux kernel versions. ZDNet reports:
Originally,… Continue reading Linux Kernel Security Bug Allows Remote Code Execution for Authenticated Remote Users
Ars Technica reports on a dangerously “wormable” Windows vulnerability that allowed attackers to execute malicious code with no authentication required — a vulnerability that was present “in a much broader range of network protocols, giving attac… Continue reading Patched Windows Bug Was Actually a Dangerous Wormable Code-Execution Vulnerability
Keylogger-like behavior has some Corsair K100 keyboard customers concerned. Several users have reported their peripheral randomly entering text into their computer that they previously typed days or weeks ago. However, Corsair told Ars Technica that th… Continue reading Corsair Says Bug, Not Keylogger, Behind Some K100 Keyboards’ Creepy Behavior
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: Bumble bees play, according to new research led by Queen Mary University of London published in Animal Behavior. It is the first time that object play behavior has been shown in an insect, adding to mo… Continue reading First-Ever Study Shows Bumble Bees ‘Play’
Discovering and reporting critical security flaws that could allow foreign spies to steal sensitive US government data or launch cyberattacks via the Department of Defense’s IT systems doesn’t carry a high reward. The Register reports: The Pentagon, in… Continue reading Pentagon Is Far Too Tight With Its Security Bug Bounties
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: A new estimate for the total number of ants burrowing and buzzing on Earth comes to a whopping total of nearly 20 quadrillion individuals. That staggering sum — 20,000,000,000,000,000, or 2… Continue reading Earth Has 20 Quadrillion Ants, Study Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: In a new study, published Monday in the journal npj Flexible Electronics, an international team of researchers revealed it has engineered a system to remotely control the legs of cockroaches from afar. The… Continue reading Scientists Create Cyborg Cockroaches Controlled By Solar-Powered Backpacks