reader comments 9 Most scammers and cybercriminals operate in the digital shadows and don’t want you to know how they make money. But that’s not the case for the Yahoo Boys, a loose collective of young men in West Africa who are some of the web’s most prolific—and increasingly dangerous—scammers. Thousands of people are members… Read More »
Canelo Alvarez will have a tall task ahead of him when he defends his status as the undisputed super middleweight champion against the younger Jaime Munguia on May 4. It is the first fight for Canelo since trouncing Jermell Charlo in September for twelve rounds. On a three-fight win streak, the 33-year-old has a resume… Read More »
The first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown is set to take place at Churchill Downs this weekend. The 150th edition of the Kentucky Derby features 20 horses vying to come out in front of the fastest two minutes in sports. Fierceness is the fastest horse in the field and a sizeable favorite with 5-2… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 74 Translating human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses has long been fraught with gaping security risks. After all, lookups are rarely end-to-end encrypted. The servers providing domain name lookups provide translations for virtually any IP address—even when they’re known to be malicious. And many end-user devices can easily be configured… Read More »
Let’s go to the beach. Gulf Shores, Alabama, that is. The eighth edition of the NCAA beach volleyball championships is about to take its first serve. Seventeen teams enter, but only one can be crowned. Historically, there’s only two teams that have been. Only Southern California and UCLA have won the national championship. The Bruins… Read More »
Caitlin Clark played her final college basketball game not even one month ago, but she’s already gearing up to make her WNBA preseason debut. Players making the leap from the NCAA to the WNBA always face a quick turnaround considering the timing of the respective seasons. The national championship game, WNBA Draft and first preseason… Read More »
Enlarge / Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose, California. reader comments 56 A Florida resident was sentenced to 78 months for running a counterfeit scam that generated $100 million in revenue from fake networking gear and put the US military’s security at risk, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. Onur Aksoy, aka Ron… Read More »
Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. reader comments 56 It’s been a bad couple of years for Microsoft’s security and privacy efforts. Misconfigured endpoints, rogue security certificates, and weak passwords have all caused or risked the exposure of sensitive data, and Microsoft has been criticized by security researchers, US lawmakers, and regulatory agencies for… Read More »
reader comments 57 On Thursday, renowned AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, formerly of OpenAI and Tesla, tweeted a lighthearted proposal that large language models (LLMs) like the one that runs ChatGPT could one day be modified to operate in or be transmitted to space, potentially to communicate with extraterrestrial life. He said the idea was “just… Read More »
The Kentucky Derby is finally here with casual interest drumming up on the eve of the 150th Run for the Roses on Saturday. While some changes to the field have already happened — Encino, originally slated to run from the 9th position, is scratched — FanDuel Racing has updated its Kentucky Derby outright winner odds… Read More »