Two Palestinian groups of hackers have been using social engineering to trick government officials, from both Fatah and Hamas camps, into installing surveillanceware.
What’s in the latest Firefox update? 88 stymies shifty JavaScript tracker
Mozilla continues to push privacy protections in Firefox 88, preventing the window.name property from leaking data across sites.
‘It’s almost as though the death knell has already sounded for petrol and diesel’
Steve Fowler thinks there’s plenty of time to still enjoy new petrol and diesel cars
Bill Nelson backs NASA’s Moon plans, climate change work in confirmation hearing
President Biden’s pick for NASA administrator, former Sen. Bill Nelson, breezed through his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, as expected. Facing questions from his “old buddies” about NASA’s commercial partnerships, climate change, and workforce diversity, Nelson’s hearing was uneventful and garnered bipartisan praise. He backed the agency’s current plan to […]
2021 Audi RS5 Sportback review
The family buyer has a hard choice shopping middle-tier Audi RS products. Let’s try Audi’s modern take on a sports sedan.
Tesla Fire in Texas Crash Was Not How It Was Reported, Says Fire Chief
Persistent news reports that a battery fire of a crashed 2019 Model S couldn’t be extinguished and stymied fire officials are wrong, he says.
Blue Origin’s Latest New Shepard Flight is a Success, With Passengers Climbing on Board (and Getting off Again Before it Flew)
In 2000, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, a commercial space company intended to become one of the crown jewels of his financial empire. Unfortunately, Blue Origin has lost ground in recent years to companies like SpaceX, which have been pushing the envelope with the development of […]
After coronavirus vaccine failures, France laments the state of its biomedical R&D
On 25 January, as France’s third pandemic wave gathered force, Christophe d’Enfert, scientific director of the Pasteur Institute, appeared on national TV with a grim duty: explaining how the venerable institute, named after vaccine pioneer Louis Pasteur, had given up on its most advanced COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Around the same […]