Enlarge / The Tomb of Caecilia Metella is a mausoleum located just outside Rome at the three mile marker of the Via Appia. reader comments 14 with 13 posters participating Share this story Among the many popular tourist sites in Rome is an impressive 2000-year-old mausoleum along the Via Appia known as the Tomb of… Read More »
John Carmack, seen here wearing an early prototype Oculus Rift headset. reader comments 96 with 81 posters participating Share this story Oculus consulting CTO John Carmack has been bullish on the idea of “the metaverse” for a long time, as he’ll be among the first to point out. But the id Software co-founder spent a… Read More »
Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 95 with 64 posters participating Share this story Live video broadcasting service Twitch has been hit by a massive hack that exposed 125GB of the company’s data. In a 4chan thread posted (and removed) Wednesday, an anonymous user posted a torrent file of the data dump. The dump… Read More »
reader comments 106 with 75 posters participating, including story author Share this story This weekend, security researcher jonhat disclosed a long-standing security bug in the Synapse software associated with Razer gaming mice. During software installation, the wizard produces a clickable link to the location where the software will be installed. Clicking that link opens a File… Read More »
Sean Gallagher reader comments 37 with 31 posters participating Share this story Update, July 5, 2021: It’s the July 4 holiday weekend in the US, which means Ars staff gets a well-deserved holiday to catch up on this summer’s Steam sale (or maybe just to rest). As such, we’re resurfacing a few classics from the… Read More »
reader comments 32 with 26 posters participating Share this story Criminals have been hiding malware inside publicly available software that purports to be a cheat for Activision’s Call of Duty: Warzone, researchers with the game maker warned earlier this week. Cheats are programs that tamper with in-game events or player interactions so that users gain… Read More »
Enlarge / How would Johnny Silverhand deal with this ransomware threat? reader comments 102 with 68 posters participating, including story author Share this story Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red announced that it has “become the victim of a targeted cyberattack” that allegedly exposed the source code for many of its games. In a message… Read More »
Enlarge / Circuit board with speed motion and light. reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating Share this story Researchers have uncovered a software supply chain attack that is being used to install surveillance malware on the computers of online gamers. The unknown attackers are targeting select users of NoxPlayer, a software package that emulates… Read More »
reader comments 187 with 92 posters participating Share this story When hackers exploited a bug in Parler to download all of the right-wing social media platform’s contents last week, they were surprised to find that many of the pictures and videos contained geolocation metadata revealing exactly how many of the site’s users had taken part… Read More »