Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day ...

Starting at the beginning of the data set, each item of data is examined until a match is made. Once the item is found, the search ends. Suppose we were to search for the value 2. The search would ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

First Companies House decided, inexplicably, to rely largely on GOV.UK One Login for identity verification, please ...

When Microsoft patched a vulnerability last summer that allowed threat actors to use Windows’ shortcut (.lnk) files in ...

A newly discovered toolkit called DKnife has been used since 2019 to hijack traffic at the edge-device level and deliver ...

In September 2024, Apple lost the fight against an ‌order by EU regulators to pay 13 billion euros in back taxes to Ireland, as part of a larger crackdown ‌against sweetheart deals. Regulators said in ...

Snowflake, MongoDB, Datadog and JFrog are the stocks in question, BofA analyst Koji Ikeda said “no company [was] spared…software sector down 25% YTD,” but argued that these four firms are positioned ...

There are lots of quantum computing start-ups, but IBM, America's first tech company, has led the pack since the 1970s, and is set to continue that dominance through 2026 and beyond.

Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of “Veronika,” as the animal is called, shows ...

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...