Month: December 2021
NASA’s newest astronauts talk about their journeys to becoming spacefarers
Yesterday, NASA announced its newest class of astronauts: 10 new candidates who will train to fly to space with the agency over the next two years. The group included plenty of qualified individuals with backgrounds in the military, as well some with more unique professions. One of the candidates was…
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Twitter will overhaul its reporting process for harmful tweets
Twitter is testing a new process for reporting tweets in what it says is a major overhaul intended to make it easier to flag harmful behavior on its platform. With the change, the company is changing how it allows users to flag tweets and significantly expanding the criteria that can…
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AWS is still down – with large parts of the internet gone with it
UPDATE: 11:26 PT / 14:26 ETGMT – The official AWS dashboard has published the following statement: “We are seeing impact to multiple AWS APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue is also affecting some of our monitoring and incident response tooling, which is delaying our ability to provide updates. “The…
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Cybercriminals use Omicron as a lure to steal university credentials
University students are being targeted in a series of new credential phishing campaigns that leverages Covid-19 and now the new Omicron variant as lures. Throughout the pandemic, the cybersecurity firm Proofpoint has observed Covid-19 being used as a lure in phishing emails. However, beginning in October, it identified email-based threats…
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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 12GB is here, but does it matter?
After months of rumors and a whole graphics card generation since it first came out, there’s a new Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 on the block, and this time it has 12GB of GDDR6 memory. Wccftech has spotted three tweets by manufacturers pointing to new variations of the RTX 2060 with…
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Microsoft says it took over servers being used by China-based hacking group Nickel
The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has seized 42 websites that the China-based hacking group Nickel used to attack organizations in the US, as well as around the world, according to a report on Microsoft’s blog (via Bleeping Computer). Microsoft says that the attacks were likely carried out to gather…
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