Science

Banning social media for teens: solution or overreaction?

One in seven teens in the EU spends more than eight hours a day in front of screens, a new study shows. Are social media bans the answer?

Deutsche Welle

Blink49 Studios Hires Pocket.Watch Exec Omar Gharaibeh For Fledgling Creator Studios Unit

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Blink49 Studios Hires Pocket.Watch Exec Omar Gharaibeh For Fledgling Creator Studios Unit

EXCLUSIVE: Blink49 Studios is continuing to build out its creator capabilities. The North American production house has hired Pocket.watch’s Omar Gharaibeh as Vice President, Creator Partnerships at Blink49 Creator Studios. Based in L.A…

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Edge users beware — this malicious extension can break out of the sandbox and install ransomware

Edge users beware — this malicious extension can break out of the sandbox and install ransomware

Zscaler uncovered “Edgecution,” a malicious Edge extension deployed via fake Outlook update sites shared in Teams phishing Attack uses ZIP archives with Python runtime to escape browser sandbox, creating a backdoor capable of…

How Bhargava Reddy Maddireddy Bridges Cybersecurity Research and Enterprise Security

How Bhargava Reddy Maddireddy Bridges Cybersecurity Research and Enterprise Security

While many are involved in making discoveries or innovating technology, many more verify research, advise on ideas, peer review studies, and share their knowledge with others. Scientist validators, as you can think of them, are just as…

'It's shaking!': inside Venezuelan airport struck by earthquake – video

The Guardian

'It's shaking!': inside Venezuelan airport struck by earthquake – video

Video shows the moment an earthquake rocked Maiquetia airport in Venezuela. Strong earthquakes struck west of Venezuela's capital, Caracas, on Wednesday afternoon, bringing down buildings, trapping people in rubble and prompting scientists…

The Guardian

Rural America Doesn't Have a Fiber Problem. It Has a Reality Problem

Rural America Doesn't Have a Fiber Problem. It Has a Reality Problem

The $42 billion broadband bet is already running into one thing no policy can fix: geography. One engineer has spent 26 years learning that lesson the hard way. \ Somewhere in rural Colorado, a family is still doing homework over a mobile…

Philippine Daily Inquirer

PhilSA: Filipino students' robot in space wins 3rd in int'l tilt

Philippine Daily Inquirer

PhilSA: Filipino students' robot in space wins 3rd in int'l tilt

MANILA – The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) announced on Thursday that a group of students from the Batangas State University (BatStateU) placed third in the international Kibo Robot Programming Challenge (Kibo-RPC). The team, called…

Samsung’s new budget phone costs $50 more despite downgrades

The Verge

Samsung’s new budget phone costs $50 more despite downgrades

The Galaxy A27 has been announced, and at $349.99 it's $50 more than last year's A26. That's understandable in the current economic climate, but a harder sell given that Samsung has also downgraded a few key specs. Compared to last year's…

The Verge

Ten rescued as storey building collapses in Lagos

Daily Trust

Ten rescued as storey building collapses in Lagos

Ten people were rescued on Thursday after a storey building collapsed in Satellite Town, Lagos, triggering a large-scale emergency response. The incident occurred on Old Ojo Road, near Alakija Bus Stop, off the Lagos-Badagry Expressway…

Daily Trust

GTA 6 isn't coming to PC on day one, so grab this PS5 at £130 off now before Prime Day comes to a close

GTA 6 isn't coming to PC on day one, so grab this PS5 at £130 off now before Prime Day comes to a close

Rockstar Games' GTA 6 is now officially available to pre-order globally for PS5 , Xbox Series X , and Xbox Series S , with the game's launch set for November 19, 2026. In case you missed it, there are already ways to save big on Rockstar's…