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After a two-week blackout, YouTube TV and Disney announced Friday that they had reached an agreement. In addition to the return of Disney networks such as ABC, ESPN, and FX to YouTube’s streaming TV service, the deal also allows ESPN to make new direct-to-consumer services available on YouTube TV at no additional charge. YouTube may also sell select Disney networks and Disney+/Hulu bundles as part of various packages. Disney Entertainment co-chairmen Alan Bergman and Dana Walden and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in a statement that the deal “recognizes the tremendous value of Disney programming and provides more flexibility and…
November 15, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/vulnerabilities Botnet malware known as RondoDox has been observed targeting unpatched XWiki instances for critical security flaws that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-24893 (CVSS score: 9.8), which allows a guest user to execute arbitrary remote code via a request to the “/bin/get/Main/SolrSearch” endpoint due to a reputation injection bug. Patched by maintainers of XWiki 15.10.11, 16.4.1, and 16.5.0RC1 in late February 2025. Although there has been evidence that this flaw has been in the wild since at least March, it wasn’t until late October that VulnCheck revealed that it…
Forensic analysis of a 750-year-old skeleton reveals that a Hungarian duke was brutally murdered by at least three assailants. Duke Béla of Masso was stabbed more than 20 times with weapons such as sabers and long swords, according to a new study.”By looking at how the blows overlap and how the body reacts, we reconstructed the order in which the blows landed, and then reconstructed which parts of the body would be exposed to receive the next blow,” study co-author Martin Trautmann, an osteoarchaeologist at the University of Helsinki, told Live Science.The research team counted 26 injuries by the time…
Scientists used genetically modified bacteria to simultaneously create and color fabric in a one-pot method. Compared to current methods that rely on fossil fuels, this new technology provides a simpler and more sustainable way to produce colored fabrics.In a new study published Nov. 12 in the journal Trends in Biotechnology, researchers created cellulose-based fabrics that span the colors of the rainbow by varying the conditions used to grow bacteria.Synthetic fibers “are highly dependent on chemical synthesis and post-processing steps, which are energy-intensive, labor-intensive, and harmful to the environment,” said study lead author Sang Yeop Lee, a professor in the Department…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Friday that five people have pleaded guilty to enabling fraud against information technology (IT) workers and supporting North Korea’s illegal revenue-generating scheme in violation of international sanctions. The 5 persons are listed below – Audrikas Fagnasey, 24 years old Jason Salazar, 30 years old Alexander Paul Travis, 34 years old Oleksandr Didenko, 28 years old Eric Ntekeleze Prince, 30 years old Fagnasay, Salazar, and Travis pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud conspiracy for knowingly causing IT workers residing outside the United States to use U.S. identities to secure jobs at U.S.…
When you look up at the night sky, space may seem like a vast expanse of darkness. But are some regions darker than others? Where are the darkest places in the solar system, and on a larger scale, the universe?So the answer isn’t easy and depends on who you ask, experts told Live Science.True darkness, the blackest black, is surprisingly rare and difficult to pinpoint. This is because there is a lot of dust in space. Dust scatters light, making the universe shine far beyond the stars, astronomer Mark Postman of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore told…
After a year of frenzied trading and rumors of an upcoming IPO, financial scrutiny of OpenAI has intensified. Leaked documents obtained by technology blogger Ed Zitron shed more light on OpenAI’s financials, specifically its revenue and computing costs over the past few years. Zitron reported this week that Microsoft will receive $493.8 million in revenue sharing from OpenAI in 2024. In the first three quarters of 2025, that number jumped to $865.8 million, according to documents he reviewed. OpenAI is reportedly sharing 20% of its revenue with Microsoft as part of a previous deal in which the software giant invested…
Tesla has released its most detailed study yet on the performance and relative safety of its advanced driver assistance software, just weeks after Waymo co-CEO Tekdra Mawakana called on companies to release more data at TechCrunch Disrupt. In a new section of its website, Tesla claims that in North America, owners using the company’s fully self-driving (supervised) software drive about 5 million miles before a major crash and about 1.5 million miles before a minor crash. This is a much lower rate than the national average based on statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). According to…
Let’s be honest: Most tech wearables are bulky and not exactly beautiful. But when you wear something on a regular basis, you probably want it to look good and even match your other jewelry. That’s the idea behind Oura’s latest smart ring, Oura Ring 4 Ceramic. Ring 4 Ceramic is Oura’s first collection of smart rings without a metal finish. Instead, it’s made from a more wear-resistant zirconia ceramic, which Oura says provides both style and comfort. I’ve been testing the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic over the past three weeks. My impressions are shown below. But before we get into…
November 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Threat Intelligence The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage their malicious payloads. NVISO researchers Bart Parys, Stef Collart, and Efstratios Lontzetidis said in a Thursday report that “attackers have recently been using JSON storage services such as JSON Keeper, JSONsilo, and npoint.io to host and distribute malware from trojanized code projects.” The campaign essentially approaches potential targets on professional networking sites such as LinkedIn under the pretext of conducting a job evaluation or collaborating on a project, and as part of…