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 / Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and founder of Moscow-based Kaspersky, at the 2020 World Internet Conference (WIC) at Wuzhen, China. (credit: Getty Images) The Federal Communications Commission on Friday determined that security products from Kaspersky posed an unacceptable risk to US national security and added the company to a covered list of other firms not…
iFixit removes the Mac Studio's SSD. [credit: iFixit ] iFixit's teardown of the Mac Studio found a monstrous thermal management system attached to a relatively small computer, among other things. The teardown video depicted a somewhat complicated but not insurmountable process for getting inside that little metal rectangle, and there weren't too many surprises. The…
Enlarge / A woman wearing a face mask leaves a pharmacy in the town of Podolsk some 40 kilometers outside Moscow on November 12, 2021. (credit: Getty | YURI KADOBNOV ) As Western countries continue to ratchet up sanctions and boycotts against Russia, the country's citizens are panic-buying medicines, such as antidepressants, sleeping pills, and…
Enlarge / The 2nd Gen Nest Hub. (credit: Corey Gaskin) Google's second-generation Nest Hub smart display is a year old, so it's time to wonder if a new hardware release is around the corner. 9to5Google has a new rumor to consider: Google is "working on a new Nest Hub for 2022 with a dockable tablet…
Enlarge / Don't let GT7's grind rain on your parade, the economy is being fixed. (credit: Sony) When Gran Turismo 7 launched earlier this month, it was no surprise that the game's economy was not exactly forgiving. But displeasure among players boiled over a couple of weeks later after a bungled update took down the…
Long expected from Intel, the Core i9-12900KS is now out of the bag thanks to an apparently accidental listing from Newegg. The major PC parts retailer listed the unannounced Intel chip for sale and began taking orders earlier this morning. pulling it a couple of hours later. But with the scale and popularity of Newegg –…
Enlarge / Ars Technica's MS Paint interpretation of what appears to be a finalized divorce between EA Sports and FIFA. (credit: EA Sports / Sam Machkovech) Hidden amidst the usual "coming this fall" slate of video game announcements is one big change: the extrication of "FIFA" from all future EA Sports products. On Thursday, Giant…
Enlarge / Brown University biologists X-rayed boa constrictors to determine how they manage to breathe while squeezing prey to death. (credit: John Capano) Watching a boa constrictor capture and consume its prey is quite something. First, the snake strikes and latches onto the prey with its teeth, then it coils its body tightly around the…
Enlarge / Paltrow and Loehnen sit in Goop's headquarters for an interview. (credit: Netflix) A former high-profile executive at Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle and wellness brand, Goop, has publicly denounced the brand's "wellness culture" as "toxic"—but only for the purpose of promoting a different wellness brands' products. In an Instagram post Tuesday, Goop's former chief content…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by North Korea's government exploited a critical Chrome zero-day in an attempt to infect the computers of hundreds of people working in a wide range of industries, including the news media, IT, cryptocurrency, and financial services, Google said Thursday. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-0609, was exploited by two separate…
