Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A secretive seller of cyberattack software recently exploited a previously unknown Chrome vulnerability and two other zero-days in campaigns that covertly infected journalists and other targets with sophisticated spyware, security researchers said. CVE-2022-2294, as the vulnerability is tracked, stems from memory corruption flaws in Web Real-Time Communications, an open source project…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Enlarge / Ubisoft insists that its first video game based on the film series Avatar is still on the way—but will now miss its original “2022” launch window. (credit: Ubisoft) Fans of gaming mega-publisher Ubisoft may have held out hope that an upcoming presentation, slated to stream online in September, might contain a few surprises…
Enlarge / The Euclid mission is ready to go—all it needs is a launch vehicle. (credit: Thales Alenia Space) The author of this piece is part of the team that has helped developed the Euclid mission. The European Space Agency had been on the verge of launching the billion-euro Euclid satellite, which is designed to…
Enlarge / Kids line up to get their polio vaccines at the Woodbury Avenue School in Huntington, New York, on April 27, 1954. (credit: Getty | Newsday LLC) Health officials in New York have detected a case of polio, marking the first case of the dangerous viral disease in the United States in years. The…
See, it’s right there, the most distant galaxy ever seen in an image. GLASS-z13: Naidu et al. 2022, Castellano et al. 2022; Raw data: T. Treu (UCLA) and GLASS-JWST. NASA/CSA/ESA/STScI; Color Images: P. Oesch & G. Brammer (University of Geneva & Cosmic Dawn Center, NBI, University of Copenhagen) When Harvard’s Rohan Naidu saw the galaxy,…
Snap released its second-quarter earnings on Thursday and missed analyst’s expectations. Revenue was $1.11 billion for the quarter, up 13% from the same period a year earlier but coming in below its previous guidance of 20% to 25%. Snap also declined to predict its future financial performance due to “uncertainties related to the operating environment.”…
Robots have always found it a challenge to work with people, and vice versa. Two people on the cutting edge of improving that relationship joined us for TC Sessions: Robotics to talk about the present and future of human-robot interaction: Veo Robotics co-founder Clara Vu and Robust.ai founder Rod Brooks (formerly of iRobot and Rethink…
Engineers and robotics fans can nerd out about robots in the lab and the workshop all day long. It’s a very long road from a ridiculously cool, glorified science experiment to robots that can be put to work in production settings. These robots often have to work in some of the harshest conditions imaginable: defusing…
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Well hello again! It’s Thursday — heat waves are heat wavin’, and all of TechCrunch is psyched about a fun and engaging Robotics event today. That’s not all that’s happening, though. We’ve…
The U.S. government is really starting to get serious about crypto. So far this year, we’ve had milestone arrests in one of the largest cryptocurrency hacking cases, and arrests in an NFT rug pull scam. Now, we have arrests in what the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York are calling the…