Clever malware, student surveillance, and more of the week’s top security news.
Original source: https://www.wired.com/story/clearview-ai-client-list-cerberus-malware-security-news
Clever malware, student surveillance, and more of the week’s top security news.
Original source: https://www.wired.com/story/clearview-ai-client-list-cerberus-malware-security-news
Hyper-accumulating plants thrive in metallic soil that kills other vegetation, and botanists are testing the potential of phytomining.
Original source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/science/metal-plants-farm.html
Two satellites docked together high above Earth on Tuesday, successfully extending the life of one that was running out of fuel.
Original source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/science/mev-1-northrop-grumman-space-junk.html
One of NASA’s proposed missions would send a spacecraft to Venus on a suicide mission in order to study its atmosphere.
Original source: https://www.wired.com/story/space-photos-of-the-week-venus-is-the-spacecraft-killer
The City Council will consider a package of bills aimed at limiting how much food delivery apps can charge restaurants.
Original source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/nyregion/grubhub-doordash-fees-nyc.html
To help Redditors with visual impairments, volunteers are writing elaborate transcriptions of memes and images across the site.
Original source: https://www.wired.com/story/online-altruists-are-making-reddit-more-accessible
The 20th century author was also a formidable science fiction critic.
Original source: https://www.wired.com/2020/02/geeks-guide-joanna-russ
Teenagers are campaigning, debating, running fact checks and forming party-based coalitions (hype houses). One of them called it “cable news for young people.”
Original source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/style/tiktok-politics-bernie-trump.html
News reports claim that a Japanese patient was reinfected with Covid-19. But there are other possibilities, like a bad test or a flare-up of the original disease.
Original source: https://www.wired.com/story/did-a-woman-get-coronavirus-twice-scientists-are-skeptical
A new marketing message tells people they are big fans of certain artists. But why?
Original source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/style/spotify-top-fans-messages.html