Attackers are exploiting a critical-severity privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025–8489) in the King Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress, which lets them obtain administrative permissions ...

Written by Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch, Ben Folland, Harlan Carvey of Huntress Labs. A big part of a security analyst’s everyday role is figuring out what actually happened during an incident. We can do ...

International Business Machines unveiled its plan to build “the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer” in June, and on Wednesday, the company shared more on how it plans to reach ...

A “major issue” with the ControlWorks software used by police to monitor emergency calls led to a delay in officers receiving critical information during a fast-moving investigation, Computer Weekly ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand in Washington in August - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP Andrew Harnik Secretary of ...

Some of the world’s most widely used open-weight generative AI (GenAI) services are profoundly susceptible to so-called “multi-turn” prompt injection or jailbreaking cyber attacks, in which a ...

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation by Patty Wellborn, University of British Columbia edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes Credit: AI ...

As data center growth across the United States is expected to create unprecedented stress on electrical grids, PJM Interconnection, a pivotal grid operator that has come under criticism for delays, is ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The technological frontier is advancing at a breathtaking pace. We are in the early stages of a digital revolution where technologies once confined to science fiction—AI, quantum computing and the ...

The move is Beijing’s latest attempt to tighten control over global production of the metals, which are essential to the manufacture of computer chips. By Keith Bradsher and Meaghan Tobin Keith ...