Apple has announced a new security feature to protect high-risk users from spyware cyber-attacks. Lockdown Mode will be available in the autumn with the next operating system across all of the company's iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
The setting blocks certain functions and prevents unknown users from calling.
It comes after Apple devices owned by activists, politicians, and journalists were infected with spyware.
Apple is currently suing Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, accusing it of targeting victims in 150...
Illnesses such as the common cold and the flu have become endemic in human populations; everyone gets them every now and then, but for most people, they aren't especially harmful. COVID-19 will transition to endemic status at some point — but when?
Possibly within two years, according to a Yale study published July 5 in the journal PNAS Nexus.
To develop a better understanding of when and how COVID-19 might become endemic, Yale researchers turned to rats,...
(Tufts University) – Less than 7 percent of the U.S. adult population has good cardiometabolic health, a devastating health crisis requiring urgent action, according to research led by a team from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.
Researchers evaluated U.S. residents across five components of health: levels of blood pressure, blood sugar, blood cholesterol, adiposity (overweight and obesity), and presence or absence of cardiovascular disease (heart attack, stroke, etc.). They found...
The British Army says it is investigating after its Twitter and YouTube accounts were hacked, the BBC reports.
Videos on cryptocurrency using images of billionaire businessman Elon Musk appeared on the YouTube channel.
The Twitter feed appeared to retweet several posts related to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – a type of digital asset held on a blockchain.
The Army confirmed the "breach", saying it took information security "extremely seriously" and was resolving the issue. Both accounts have been...
With crypto markets in turmoil, files seen by the BBC suggest an unlikely Bitcoin investor may have also lost a fortune – "the missing cryptoqueen", Dr. Ruja Ignatova.
The scammer disappeared in 2017 as her cryptocurrency OneCoin was at its height – attracting billions from investors. Fraud and money-laundering charges in the U.S. have led to her becoming one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives.
The Oxford-educated entrepreneur told investors she had created the "Bitcoin killer",...
A 15-year study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth, a landmark body of work that will help reconstruct the history of life on Earth, guide the search for new minerals and ore deposits, predict possible characteristics of future life, and aid the search for habitable planets and extraterrestrial life.
In twin papers published today by American Mineralogist and sponsored in part by NASA,...
Smell plays a key role in our ability to enjoy food. However, many people suffer from a lost, impaired, or distorted sense of smell, and this can affect health and quality of life, says a new study from Aarhus University in Denmark.
Losing your sense of smell or having it distorted affects more than your cooking and eating habits, says Alexander Wieck Fjældstad, associate professor, MD. He was part of establishing Denmark's first clinic for smell and taste, and is...
A crewless, robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock.
The sleek Mayflower Autonomous Ship met with an escort boat as it approached the Massachusetts shoreline Thursday, more than 400 years after its namesake's historic journey from England, Tech Xplore reports.
It was towed into Plymouth Harbor – per U.S. Coast Guard rules for crewless vessels – and docked near a replica of the original Mayflower that brought the...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has lost some of its power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court represents a major setback to President Joe Biden's climate plans, the BBC reports.
He called it a "devastating decision" but said it would not undermine his effort to tackle the climate crisis.
The case against the EPA was brought by West Virginia on behalf of 18 other mostly Republican-led states and some...
(BBC) – NATO member Turkey has agreed to support Sweden and Finland's proposed membership of the alliance.
Turkey had initially opposed the Scandinavian countries' bids to join, reportedly angered by what it saw as their willingness to host Kurdish militants. Sweden and Finland could not join NATO without Turkey's support.
Russia strongly opposes the two states joining and has used the expansion of the West's defensive military alliance as a pretext for its war in Ukraine.
But Moscow's...
