A significant backdoor in contactless cards made by China-based Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics allows instantaneous cloning of RFID cards used to open office doors and hotel rooms around the world.

Search for others missing, including his 18-year-old daughter, continues

Market highlights and explanations from a day of records in ERCOT.

Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas failed after CEO Shan Hanes caused $47 million in wire transfers to be sent to scammers running a pig butchering scheme.

Euclid proved that √2 (the square root of 2) is an irrational number. He used a proof by contradiction. First Euclid assumed √2 was a rational number.

An esoteric, graphical functional language

For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals otherwise.

Rising global concentrations of environmental micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) drive concerns for human exposure and health outcomes. Applying pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) methods to isolate and quantify MNPs from human ...

(Not an anti-AI post — Copilot is great, I use it all the time.)

The Google Play Security Reward Program is being discontinued. It encouraged researchers to find vulnerabilities in popular Android apps.

The update wasn’t supposed to reach dual-boot PCs.

Euphemisms are like underwear: best changed frequently. What work are they doing in our language and why do they expire?

An open-source authorization as a service inspired by Google Zanzibar, designed to build and manage fine-grained and scalable authorization systems for any application. — Permify is now part of Fus...

A distributed lock pattern with Redis

Designing my own watch Last month a very special package arrived from Switzerland, containing my custom made wrist watch. I decided to sell all my big brand watches and have them replaced by something unique, tailored to my personal preferences. This is the…