This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The world’s first industrial-scale plant for green steel promises a cleaner future As of 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of steel were being produced annually, enough to cover Manhattan in a layer …
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This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. I love the fresh start that comes with a new year. And one thing adding a boost to my January is our newest list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. In case you haven’t …
The first Democrat in New York history with a computer science background wants to revive some of the ideas behind the failed California AI safety bill, SB 1047, with a new version in his state that would regulate the most advanced AI models. It’s called the RAISE Act, an acronym for “Responsible AI Safety and …
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Hackers exploiting the critical Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day vulnerability disclosed yesterday installed on compromised VPN appliances new malware called ‘Dryhook’ and ‘Phasejam’ that is not currently associated with any threat group. The security issue, now tracked as CVE-2025-0282 is a critical stack-based buffer overflow flaw that impacts Ivanti Connect Secure 22.7R2.5 and older, Ivanti Policy Secure 22.7R1.2 and …
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Criminal IP, a globally recognized Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) solution by AI SPERA, has launched its Criminal IP Malicious Link Detector add-in on the Microsoft Marketplace. This cutting-edge tool provides real-time phishing email detection and URL blocking for Microsoft Outlook, adding an essential layer of email security in the face of increasing cyber threats. Advances in generative …
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The recent release of Firefox 134 brings several improvements to the browser, including better video playback on Windows and better support for touchpads on Linux, as well as fixes to several security flaws. Firefox ESR and Tor Browser have also received security updates. What’s new in Firefox 134? With this update, Firefox now plays HEVC-encoded …
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Production of the Honda Zero SUV begins in Ohio in 2026. We expect some details to change as the Zero Saloon morphs into its production version. But perhaps not that much. Credit: Abigail Bassett We expect some details to change as the Zero Saloon morphs into its production version. But perhaps not that much. Credit: …
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The H5N1 bird flu situation in the US seems more fraught than ever this week as the virus continues to spread swiftly in dairy cattle and birds while sporadically jumping to humans. On Monday, officials in Louisiana announced that the person who had developed the country’s first severe H5N1 infection had died of the infection, …
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For several years, an innovative, California-based launch company named Relativity Space has been the darling of investors and media. Relativity promised to disrupt launch by taking a somewhat niche technology in the space industry at the time, 3D printing, and using it as the foundation for manufacturing rockets. The pitch worked. Relativity’s chief executive Tim …
Nearly two years after its radical pivot, Fidelity slashes Relativity’s valuation Read More »
The Justice Department says that landlords did more than use RealPage in the alleged pricing scheme. “Along with using RealPage’s anticompetitive pricing algorithms, these landlords coordinated through a variety of means,” such as “directly communicating with competitors’ senior managers about rents, occupancy, and other competitively sensitive topics,” the DOJ said. There were “call arounds” in …
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