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In a world awash in high-tech security tools like passkeys, quantum-safe algorithms, and public-key cryptography, it can be refreshing to get back to the simple things… like a good old-fashioned canary trap. The canary trap is a simple tool often used to identify leakers or double agents. To make one, you simply share a document, image, or database but make tiny changes that are unique to each recipient. That way, if those changes show up verbatim in any leak of the information, you know immediately which recipient was behind the leak. You don’t often see canary traps in the news,…

Folks, we’ve finally reached a bit of a lull in the spring game release calendar. While the second half of May is packed with Subnautica 2, Forza Horizon 6, Lego Batman, 007 First Light, and some other heavy-hitters, this week offers a brief respite before the onslaught. The most notable game coming out is probably Mixtape, a new narrative adventure from publisher Annapurna Interactive. We’ll have a review for you on that later this week. In the meantime, take note of two other releases this week that you probably haven’t heard of before. The first is Motorslice, an atmospheric anime…

For 10 days in April, NASA’s Artemis II crew took a record-breaking trip around the far side of the moon and back. And like any group of friends on an epic spring break odyssey, the astronauts took way too many photos — more than 12,000, to be exact.We’ve seen some of these photos already, from a rare view of the moon’s far side during a solar eclipse to evocative shots of our planet disappearing behind the lunar horizon. But this weekend, NASA quietly uploaded thousands more to its public archive of astronaut photography. You can view the entire Artemis II…

Things have not been looking good for Spirit Airlines for years now. The budget airline known for its bare-bones approach to the sky filed for bankruptcy in 2024 and then again in 2025. And yet, its demise on Saturday felt sudden and shocking: Spirit said it would go out of business, canceling flights, shuttering its customer service lines, and laying off workers without warning.Why Is This Happening?Spirit’s demise was several years in the works. The company hadn’t made a profit since 2019. Other airlines, including larger and richer Delta Air Lines and American Airlines, invaded its low-cost turf by unbundling…

Ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm back in 2012, there’s been a steady drip feed of Star Wars television shows airing on Disney+. Before that, we had a few shows set in George Lucas’ space opera universe, but they were only animated series (mostly) geared towards children. Since the Disney deluge, Disney has released 15 different Star Wars series, one a continuation of The Clone Wars animated show; the rest all brand-new. Some of them, like 2022’s brilliant Star Wars spy thriller Andor (a prequel to Rogue One starring Diego Luna) are excellent. Some, like The Book of Boba Fett, a…

High estrogen in the brain’s memory center may worsen one’s resilience against traumatic events, swaying the tendency to develop memory problems or post-traumatic stress in the aftermath, a new study in mice suggests.The research, published in April in the journal Neuron, explored the effects of estrogen in the mouse brain. It zoomed in on the hippocampus, a key part of the brain involved in learning and memory. Both male and female mammals produce significant amounts of estrogen in the hippocampus, despite it often being framed as a “female” hormone.”We’re so biased to think of female high estrogen, male low estrogen,”…

Two days before the Musk v. Altman trial began, Elon Musk asked OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman about reaching a settlement. When Brockman suggested both sides drop their claims, Musk responded, “By the end of this week, you and Sam [Altman] will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so be it.”The message—which OpenAI’s lawyers made public on Sunday, and which Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers subsequently refused to let the jury hear about—underscores what may be Musk’s larger goal in this trial. He appears to be trying to not only win over the jurors to potentially…

There’s a lot of talk about Grand Theft Auto VI at IICON, the new executive-focused video game conference in Las Vegas being put on by the Entertainment Software Association. Most of that talk is understandably coming from Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, or from other gaming executives. But it’s also coming from, apparently, Bank of America, with a stock analyst for the bank declaring, after speaking to attendees at IICON, that GTA 6 should and will cost $80, so that other AAA companies don’t have trouble selling their own games. This comes from Bank of America stock analyst Omar Dessouky, who…

To say something moves at a glacial pace is to imply sluggish, unhurried change. But what transpired over the course of 15 months at Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier was uncharacteristically quick. Between January 2022 and March 2023, the glacier lost about 25 kilometers (15 miles) in length. That included a two-month period in which the terminus retreated more than 8 kilometers (5 miles)—the highest rate of grounded glacial ice loss observed in modern history. A team of scientists published an analysis of Hektoria’s collapse based on a suite of remote-sensing data, finding that its particular geometry enabled the rapid change. Like…

As its name implies, the venerable Notepad++ text editor began as a more capable version of the classic Windows Notepad, with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting. It was created in 2003 by Don Ho, who continues to be its primary author and maintainer, and it has been a Windows-exclusive app throughout its existence (older Notepad++ versions support OSes as old as Windows 95; the current version officially supports everything going back to Windows 7). I’m not a devoted user of the app, but I was aware of its history, which is why I was surprised to see…