Jeep’s first battery EV is not what we expected: the 2024 Wagoneer S
Jeep provided a night in a hotel so Ars could attend the Wagoneer S first drive. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. This year marks the return of the…
MintsLoader Delivers StealC Malware and BOINC in Targeted Cyber Attacks
Threat hunters have detailed an ongoing campaign that leverages a malware loader called MintsLoader to distribute secondary payloads such as the StealC information stealer and a legitimate open-source network computing…
GamaCopy Mimics Gamaredon Tactics in Cyber Espionage Targeting Russian Entities
A previously unknown threat actor has been observed copying the tradecraft associated with the Kremlin-aligned Gamaredon hacking group in its cyber attacks targeting Russian-speaking entities. The campaign has been attributed…
Do We Really Need The OWASP NHI Top 10?
The Open Web Application Security Project has recently introduced a new Top 10 project – the Non-Human Identity (NHI) Top 10. For years, OWASP has provided security professionals and developers…
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to our post about the meteorologist who was fired for criticizing Elon Muk’s nazi salute. In first place,…
Meta’s Llama Framework Flaw Exposes AI Systems to Remote Code Execution Risks
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in Meta’s Llama large language model (LLM) framework that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the llama-stack…
There’s One Week Left In The Public Domain Game Jam
Despite all that has happened (and boy does it seem like too much), the fact is we’re still less than one month into 2025 — and that means there’s still…
Justin Baldoni’s Legal Team Decides To Wage A PR War Before Trial
And now this whole thing gets even messier. What started off as something of a Streisand Effect post about Justin Baldoni’s decision to amplify the accusations made against him by…
3D-printed “ghost gun” ring comes to my community—and leaves a man dead
It’s a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a…
India Spends $715 Million On The Wrong Kind Of Open Access Journals
Numerous articles on Walled Culture have chronicled the struggles to turn the aspirations of open access to knowledge into reality. The central reason people do not have free digital access…