The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed ...

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

Instances of generative AI-assisted hacking are on the rise, and the threat of cyberattacks from bots acting on their own is no longer science fiction. With AI doing their bidding, novices can cause ...

Activity on the Reddit-style social network for OpenClaw agents raises serious cybersecurity and privacy concerns.

Ronan Corrigan's SXSW 2025 hit LifeHack, from Timur Bekmambetov and Michael Fassbender, has been acquired for the US by ...

A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

Oscar-winner Michael Douglas will have a memoir out this fall. The Hollywood icon has a lot to cover as he grew up the son of Spartacus actor Kirk Douglas, came to fame on The Streets Of San Francisco ...

Before you read this review, dear reader, please answer this question in the privacy of your own mind. Which are you least comfortable sharing publicly? A) Your weight. B) Your greatest mistake. C) ...

Philosophers are generally expected to display wisdom and calm in the face of existential questions. I am just not one of those philosophers. I spent 30 years racing away from these thoughts by ...

The jsPDF library for generating PDF documents in JavaScript applications is vulnerable to a critical vulnerability that allows an attacker to steal sensitive data from the local filesystem by ...

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