Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the daily operations of thousands of schools across the United States….
Medics escort a person with a suspected hantavirus infection to an ambulance after being flown to Amsterdam, the Netherlands Peter Dejong/Associated Press/Alamy The outbreak of hantavirus on board the cruise ship MV Hondius is unlikely to become an epidemic, the…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Bioluminescence is everywhere in nature, but it puts on its biggest light shows underwater. In the deepest regions of the oceans, as much as…
Researchers have identified a group of natural compounds from a Brazilian tree that show promising activity against the virus responsible for COVID-19. The compounds, known as galloylquinic acids, were extracted from the leaves of Copaifera lucens Dwyer, a species native…
Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Twitch is putting streamers on notice about viewbotting. The company is taking new steps to crack down on people caught artificially inflating their viewership stats, according to an update…
The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is down after recently confirming a massive data breach that impacted student names, email addresses, ID numbers, and messages. Students attempting to access the system on Thursday saw a message from the hacking group…
OpenAI said Thursday that its API will now include a number of new voice intelligence features designed to help developers create apps that can talk, transcribe, and translate conversations with users. The company’s new GPT‑Realtime‑2 is another voice model, built…
If you use Google’s Chrome browser for desktop, there’s probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right now and taking up about 4 GB of space. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but if you didn’t know…
Coffee can influence our mood and microbiome Artem Varnitsin / Alamy Both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee can lead to improvements in mood and cognitive performance, possibly through their effects on the gut microbiome. Scientists have long known that coffee can…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A hiker who paused to examine an old, uprooted tree found something much rarer than roots during a recent walk in the hills of…
Universal Pictures will forgo so-called “word-of-mouth” screenings for social media influencers ahead of the July 17 release of director Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” opting instead to screen the film exclusively for professional critics following its world premiere, the Hollywood Reporter…
Heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk says he will vacate all his belts – but is not retiring. The 39-year-old, who has an undefeated professional record of 25 wins, held the WBA ‘super’, WBC and IBF belts. “This is a well-considered…
A mortgage refinance is not always a money-saving proposition. It should be. To know that a refi is a smart financial move, you’ll have to do a small but easy calculation, and consider more than just the interest rate. Here…
