Monthly Archives: December 2022

LastPass’ latest data breach exposed some customer information

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge LastPass has experienced another data breach, but this time, it exposed user data. According to a post from LastPass CEO Karim Toubba, hackers accessed a third-party cloud storage service used by the password manager and were able to “gain access to certain elements” of “customers’ information.” It’s…

Twitter will recommend more tweets to everyone, even if you didn’t ask for them

Twitter is bringing recommended tweets to everyone. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is bringing recommended tweets from people you don’t follow to all users, the company announced on Wednesday. Twitter is doing this because it wants to “ensure everyone on Twitter sees the best content on the platform,” so it’s expanding…

Astronomers capture black hole gobbling up a star in a “hyper-feeding frenzy”

Enlarge / Illustration of a star being spaghettified as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a tidal disruption event (TDE). (credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser) Earlier this year, astronomers picked up an unusually bright signal in the X-ray, optical, and radio regimes, dubbed AT 2022cmc. They’ve now determined that the most likely source of…

COVID-19 vaccines are still essential in preventing death in children and teens

A child receives a COVID-19 vaccine. Deposit Photos As children’s hospitals and pediatric wards around the United States fill up due to a “tripledemic” of COVID-19, Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and flu, doctors and public health officials around the country are urging parents to keep children home if sick and stay up to date on…

Can airplane engines run on hydrogen? A recent ground test showed good results.

The engine was not airborne. Rolls-Royce British airplane engine maker Rolls-Royce and low-cost airline easyJet announced this week that they had successfully powered a modern airplane engine using 100% hydrogen fuel. The test took place at a military facility in the UK, with the engine remaining stationary on the ground.  Since the aviation industry currently…

ICE doxes thousands of immigrants seeking asylum on its website

Thousands of immigrants had their personal information released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday. On Wednesday, the LA Times reported that 6,252 migrants who said they were escaping torture and persecution in their countries of origin had their personal information published by ICE on the agency’s website. According to the report, ICE…