Technology
The Guy Who Invented the Metaverse Thinks Your VR Headset is Creepy
Neal Stephenson, the science fiction author who coined “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, has written that he no longer believes VR goggles or…
OnePlus Launches World’s Slimmest Magnetic Phone Cooler
OnePlus has unveiled its latest accessory, the Magnetic Ice Cooling Clip, alongside the newly launched OnePlus 15T. Marketed as the world’s thinnest magnetic smartphone cooler,…
OGRA Launches Digital Platform to Track Oil Products Across Pakistan
The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA), in collaboration with the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB), has trained petroleum industry representatives on its new digital…
Japan Just Built a Wi-Fi Chip That Survives Nuclear Meltdowns
A team at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has developed a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi receiver chip that withstands radiation doses far beyond what would destroy…
Hackers Compromise Developer Tools In Major Supply Chain Attack
The threat group TeamPCP, which breached Aqua Security’s Trivy vulnerability scanner last week, has used stolen credentials from that attack to compromise two GitHub Actions…
Scientists Finally Figured Out How to Make a Solid Battery Actually Work
Lithium-ion batteries power nearly everything, from phones and laptops to electric vehicles. But the liquid electrolytes inside them are flammable, and that fundamental chemistry has…
Elon Musk Wants to Build the World’s Largest Chip Factory
Musk has unveiled “Terafab,” a joint Tesla-SpaceX-xAI initiative to build a chip factory capable of producing a terawatt of compute annually. The plan includes two…
National CERT Issues Urgent Security Advisory for iPhone Users
The National Cyber Emergency Response Team (National CERT) in Islamabad just released a security advisory. This advisory specifically targets iPhone users. It provides a strict…
US Intelligence Flags Pakistan’s Long-Range Missiles as Threat to American Homeland
US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has officially listed Pakistan’s Long-Range Missiles as a significant threat to the United States. She presented the…
LeakNet Ransomware Tricks Victims Into Infecting Themselves Through Hacked Websites
The ransomware group has adopted the ClickFix social engineering tactic, using compromised legitimate websites to serve fake CAPTCHA pages that trick users into running malicious…
GlassWorm Malware Silently Infects Hundreds of Python Projects
Attackers are using stolen GitHub credentials to silently inject cryptocurrency-stealing malware into legitimate Python projects, rewriting git history to leave no visible trace in GitHub’s…
Scientists Build a Chip That Lets Robots See in 4D for the First Time
Researchers in Switzerland have packed an advanced imaging system onto a single silicon chip that can map 3D environments while simultaneously measuring the velocity of…