Creating better tools to read our DNA's hidden instructions

DNA isn't just a long string of genetic code, but an intricate 3D structure folded inside each cell. That means the tools ...
Engadget

Microsoft has ended Windows 10 support, but here's how to get an extra year for free

Are you still using Windows 10 on your desktop or laptop? If so, you need to know this: As of October 14, Microsoft moved the software to its "end of life" phase. What that means is that while Windows ...
9to5Mac

T-Mobile customer call and text data captured from unencrypted satellite comms; military data too

Security researchers at two US universities were able to intercept T-Mobile customer call and text data from completely unencrypted satellite communications. Researchers were also able to eavesdrop on ...
GameSpot

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Is A Sad Reminder That Ubisoft Has No Idea What To Do With Sam Fisher

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There’s a scene in Splinter Cell: Deathwatch--Netflix's animated adaptation of Ubisoft's stealth game series--where Sam Fisher casually walks in front ...
GamesRadar+

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch review: "A pale imitation of the long-dormant stealth franchise"

Animated Shows Splinter Cell: Deathwatch creator responds to fan uncertainty over Michael Ironside's Sam Fisher replacement: "Give him a chance, because he made me a believer" Animated Shows Splinter ...
Wired

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from ...
Reuters

a16z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal

Merger creates $600-million-revenue data infrastructure company Fivetran CEO Fraser to lead combined company Deal highlights AI-driven data infrastructure demand Oct 13 (Reuters) - Data startups ...
The Washington Post

The real height at which a hill becomes a mountain, according to data

From California to Colorado, one universal experience defines growing up in the American West. It’s not the wide-open skies. Or the deer and the antelope. It’s not even the lack of humidity, blissful ...
The New York Times

A Scammy Job Offer Over Text? I’ll Take It!

Mr. Stein writes the Substack newsletter The End of My Career. It’s not, by many measures, a good time to be looking for work. As The Wall Street Journal put it succinctly on Oct. 8: “The Unofficial ...
PC Gamer

A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke

With so much of our personal and professional lives stored in the cloud, it's easy to forget just how fragile these systems can be. Don't misunderstand, I enjoy the convenience of my important files ...
STAT

Bristol Myers to buy startup Orbital Therapeutics, building out cell therapy pipeline

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...