A Russian FPV drone was destroyed after an encounter with a weird new Ukrainian weapon. Is this a high-powered laser or something else entirely?

Throughout early 2026, SentinelOne’s Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) team has responded to several incidents where FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) appliances have been ...

A new open-source tool called Betterleaks can scan directories, files, and git repositories and identify valid secrets using default or customized rules.

Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, and star cluster in Charles Messier’s famous catalog. Photographer Alan Dyer ...

People and computers perceive the world differently, which can lead AI to make mistakes no human would. Researchers are working on how to bring human and AI vision into alignment.

AI is getting scary good at finding hidden software bugs - even in decades-old code ...

Your chicken scratch rendered as a usable font. Sure, why not. One of the powers of the latest Claude AI model is that it can use any multiple external Python tools to perform complex tasks. And, as ...

Scientists have designed a new technique using robotics to rapidly generate high-resolution, three-dimensional images of ants. Antscan is the world’s first digitized library of nearly 800 ant species ...

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...

Stop Googling. The answer is staring you right in the face—you just have to read it.

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...