Argentina’s blackout and the storm-battered future of the grid
Early Sunday morning, all of mainland Argentina lost power in an “unprecedented” blackout event that left most of the country’s 44 million citizens in the dark until the …
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A tale of two cities: Why ransomware will just get worse
Enlarge / Baltimore, Maryland; Riviera Beach, Florida. Both got ransomware, and the outcomes were… the worst of times, and the worst of times.
Earlier this week, the city of Riviera …
Manufacturing memory means scribing silicon in a sea of sensors
Enlarge / How it’s made: silicon wafers!
At Micron’s memory chip fabrication facility in the Washington, DC, suburb of Manassas, Virginia, the entire manufacturing area is …
At House hearing, witnesses for Trump admin defend fuel-economy rollback
Enlarge / Cars and trucks drive along Interstate 75/85 June 25, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia. (credit: Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images)
The Trump administration has been trying to roll back Obama-era fuel-economy standards for passenger vehicles out to model year
Potent Firefox 0-day used to install undetected backdoors on Macs
Enlarge / The fox animoji.
Hackers exploited a pair of potent zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox to infect Mac users with a largely undetected backdoor, according to accounts pieced together from …
What’s it like to race a Jaguar I-Pace electric car?
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Bryan Sellers behind the wheel of his I-Pace racing car. He currently lies second in the championship for Pro drivers. [credit: Jaguar ]
“Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.” Like many aphorisms from an earlier time, this no longer works
Waymo forges self-driving alliance with Renault and Nissan
Enlarge / Waymo CEO John Krafcik in 2017. (credit: Misha Friedman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Waymo announced early Thursday morning that it was forming a self-driving alliance with Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi—a trio of car companies that already have strong
Nation-sponsored hackers likely carried out hostile takeover of rival group’s servers
If nation-sponsored hacking was baseball, the Russian-speaking group called Turla would not just be a Major League team—it would be a perennial playoff contender. Researchers from multiple security firms largely …