Economy

It’s Ars Frontiers week—and we’ve got something happening every day

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) We made it! After announcing our inaugural conference and providing you with updates, we’re ready to get…

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Small drones are giving Ukraine an unprecedented edge

Enlarge (credit: Petro Zadorozhny | Getty Images) In the snowy streets of the north Ukrainian town of Trostyanets, the Russian…

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How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For more than a decade, we’ve been promised that a world without passwords is just around…

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Nvidia hid how many GPUs it was selling to cryptocurrency miners, says SEC

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nvidia has agreed to pay $5.5 million in fines to the United States Securities and Exchange…

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Russia hammered by pro-Ukrainian hackers following invasion

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For years, Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin sat atop the FBI’s most wanted list. The Russian government-backed hacker…

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Gear from Netgear, Linksys, and 200 others has unpatched DNS poisoning flaw

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hardware and software makers are scrambling to determine if their wares suffer from a critical vulnerability…

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Botnet that hid for 18 months boasted some of the coolest tradecraft ever

Enlarge It’s not the kind of security discovery that happens often. A previously unknown hacker group used a novel backdoor,…

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Elon Musk sold $8.5B in Tesla stock after agreeing to $44B Twitter deal

Enlarge / CEO Elon Musk at SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on October 10, 2019. (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto)…

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One of the most powerful DDoSes ever targets cryptocurrency platform

Enlarge A cryptocurrency platform was recently on the receiving end of one of the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever after…

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Russia wages “relentless and destructive” cyberattacks to bolster Ukraine invasion

Enlarge / Flag of Russia on a computer binary codes falling from the top and fading away. (credit: Getty Images)…

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