The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released 20 pages of training materials concerning the collection, processing, and analysis of biological evidence following fatal aviation accidents. The…
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Larry W. Bryant was a UFO researcher, writer, and government transparency advocate who pursued federal records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). His work…
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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) North Carolina A&T State University, the largest historically black college in the US, University was recently struck by a ransomware Group called ALPHV, sending university staff into a scramble to restore services last month. “It’s affecting a lot of my classes, especially since I do take a couple of coding classes,…
Natasha Lyonne and Charlie Barnett (return for the upcoming second season of the Netflix series, Russian Doll. A mysterious portal through time opens up in the New York City subway in the first trailer for the second season of Russian Doll, Netflix's Emmy Award-winning sci-fi dramedy that was an Ars Technica favorite in 2019. Co-stars…
Enlarge / Pages on macOS. (credit: Samuel Axon) On Thursday, Apple released its first feature updates for the iWork suite in several months: Pages, Keynote, and Numbers 12.0. There are new versions of all three apps on both iOS and macOS. Judging from the version number, you'd expect these to be major new releases, but…
Enlarge (credit: Salazar et al. 2022) A recent study of geological deposits and archaeological remains has identified a massive earthquake and tsunami that wiped out communities along the coastline of Chile's Atacama Desert around 3,800 years ago. Studying the ancient disaster—and people's responses to it—could help with modern hazard planning along the seismically active coast.…
Enlarge / Ukrainian soldiers sit on an armored military vehicle in Sievierodonetsk on April 7, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (credit: Getty Images | Fadel Senna) Facebook today reported an increase in attacks on accounts run by Ukraine military personnel. In some cases, attackers took over accounts and posted "videos calling on the Army…
The hottest advancement in memory technology for desktop computers in recent years is undoubtedly the release of DDR5 memory and Intel's 12th Gen Core series of processors. Not only does DDR5 memory yield higher memory bandwidth for many different use cases, but DDR5 also offers a generational increase in memory capacity, allowing for higher capacity…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security vendor WatchGuard quietly fixed a critical vulnerability in a line of its firewall devices and didn’t explicitly disclose the flaw until Wednesday, following revelations hackers from Russia’s military apparatus exploited it en masse to assemble a massive botnet. Law enforcement agencies in the US and UK on February 23 warned…
Enlarge / Image of the AB Aurigae system, with details of the object shown at the right. (credit: NASA, ESA, Thayne Currie) On some levels, forming stars and planets is simple: They form where there's more stuff. So, while the raw material for a star may be a diffuse cloud of gas, the distribution of…
Enlarge / Max is back. (credit: Take Two / Remedy) Remedy Entertainment and Max Payne are together again—and the reunion is coming in the form of a full-blown remake of the hard-boiled series' first two action games. The news arrived on Wednesday in the form of a press release signed off by both Remedy, the…
Enlarge / Illustration of a Oestrus ovis, sheep botfly (credit: Getty | Nastasic) On Wednesday, doctors in France reported a rare case of tiny sheep bot fly larvae—aka maggots—infesting the outer surface of a man's eyeball. The small, spiky larvae were seen slithering around the man's peeper, which explained the redness and itchiness he was…
