Date of discovery: July 26, 2026Location of sighting: Mars Source: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/03393/mcam/3393ML1015160341305084C00_DXXX.jpgGuys, this is a unexploded missile laying on the surface of Mars just meter from the…
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Date of discovery: July 27, 2026Location of discovery: In orbit between Jupiter and MarsSource: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA07881/PIA07881~orig.jpgI found a comet in the NASA index and I wanted to…
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Enlarge (credit: Kevin Beaumont) The list of services with Internet-facing infrastructure that is vulnerable to a critical zero-day vulnerability in the open source Log4j logging utility is immense and reads like a who’s who of the biggest names on the Internet, including Apple, Amazon, Cloudflare, Steam, Tesla, Twitter, and Baidu. The vulnerability, now going by…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A newly discovered vulnerability affecting Java versions of Minecraft makes it possible for miscreants to execute malicious code on servers and end-user devices running the wildly popular game, several websites said on Thursday. And as if a vulnerability of this magnitude in the world’s best-selling game wasn’t serious enough, the breadth…
Virtual Keanu Reeves, rendered in real time on a consumer-grade Xbox Series X in the latest Unreal Engine 5 demo. [credit: Epic Games ] 2021 is the 25th anniversary of a gaming-related milestone: the Super Mario 64 face. This fascinating tech demo (whose creator opines about it in a May 2021 interview) is the first…
Enlarge / Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing, smirked his way through a Congressional hearing. (credit: CSPAN) A pharmaceutical company once owned by Martin Shkreli will pay up to $40 million in a settlement that will also finally end his infamous price-gouging scheme involving the antiparasitic drug Daraprim. The Federal Trade Commission and its state…
Enlarge / On the left, a 2021-spec 13-inch Formula One tire. To its right, a 2022-spec 18-inch F1 tire. (credit: Steven Tee / LAT Images) Pirelli provided flights to Austin and three nights in a hotel so we could attend the US Grand Prix. Ars does not accept paid editorial content.Formula One goes to Abu…
Enlarge / A mockup of Android 12L running on different types and sizes of devices. (credit: Google) Google is taking another run at producing a usable Android tablet operating system in the form of Android 12L, which was announced and released as a developer preview back in October. And Thursday, Google released the first beta…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have found another 17 malicious packages in an open source repository, as the use of such repositories to spread malware continues to flourish. This time, the malicious code was found in NPM, where 11 million developers trade more than 1 million packages among each other. Many of the 17 malicious…
Enlarge / The mushroom cloud from the Soviet detonation of "Tsar Bomba" on October 30, 1961, was so large that the photographers had a hard time capturing its full dimensions. (credit: Rosatom) The detonation of the first nuclear bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 is seared into our collective memory, and the world…
Enlarge / A Fortnite loading screen displayed on an iPhone in 2018, when Apple and Epic weren't at each other's throats. (credit: Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images) Apple has won a last-minute stay on an injunction that would have required the company to begin allowing iPhone and iPad app developers to direct users…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Tor anonymity service and anticensorship tool has come under fire from two threats in recent weeks: The Russian government has blocked most Tor nodes in that country, and hundreds of malicious servers have been relaying traffic. Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media, known as…
