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Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car

Ferrari has unveiled the Luce, its first four-door, five-seater, and battery-electric vehicle. This new model is intended to meet the demand for emissions-free options in key markets such as China and Silicon Valley. The car features a design influenced by external teams, with some noting similarities to Apple's aesthetic.

Ars Technica 15d ago

Websites Can Now Spy on You Through Your Hard Drive

Over the decades, there has been no shortage of sites using clever techniques to covertly track visitors’ browsing histories, device fingerprints, and keystrokes and mouse movements in real time. Even Meta and Yandex were recently caught joining in the privacy-invasive free-for-all. Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: by measuring subtle interactions with their solid-state drives.

Wired 9d ago

Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2B

Downdetector and Speedtest — the free platforms that allow people on the web to quickly check internet speeds or see if an online platform may be down — will soon have a new owner. On Tuesday, the consulting and IT services provider Accenture announced that it has agreed to acquire the Ookla-owned platforms from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion, as reported earlier by Reuters. Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion Ziff Davis sold the two sites to the consulting and IT...

Hacker News 11d ago

NASA astronauts briefly shelter in 'safe haven' procedure following worsening leaks on International Space Station

NASA astronauts briefly shelter in 'safe haven' procedure following worsening leaks on International Space Station A brief leak scare on the International Space Station complicates NASA and Congress' plans to extend the station's lifespan to at least 2032. An emergency evacuation alert given to NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been lifted following urgent repairs of leaks within the Russian segment of the orbital laboratory.

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Not to Alarm Anyone, but Flesh-Eating Screwworms Have Entered the US

A case of New World screwworm has been confirmed in South Texas, the US Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday night. It marks the first detected breach of the US-Mexico border by the ravenous flesh-eating flies, which have been making their way up through Central America for the past several years. In a social media post on Wednesday afternoon, the USDA revealed that a sample from Texas had been sent to the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa, for...

Wired 5d ago

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code. Many of the affected projects relate to Microsoft’s cloud service Azure and other tools used by developers to code with AI development apps, such as Claude Code, Gemini’s command line interface, and VS Code. According to security firm Cloudsmith and community-driven malware analysis site...

Hacker News 1d ago

Can solar sails really send humans out into interstellar space?

Can solar sails really send humans out into interstellar space? "I think these are not far-out type of ideas; they are not really futuristic ideas that we are talking about." If humankind ever travels to distant stars, we might sail there — and it might be sooner than you think.

Space.com 10d ago