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The tech sector teardown is more catharsis than crisis

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Following a series of “super clarifying” meetings with shareholders, Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, emailed employees on Sunday night with an arresting message: “we need to show them the money.”…

Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type—before you hit submit

Enlarge When you sign up for a newsletter, make a hotel reservation, or check out online, you probably take for granted that if you mistype your email address three times or change your…

How a French satellite operator helps keep Russia’s TV propaganda online

Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Moscow Urban Forum 2018 on July 18, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. (credit: Getty Images | Mikhail Svetlov ) Not long after Russia steamrolled into…

Backdoor in public repository used new form of attack to target big firms

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A backdoor that researchers found hiding inside open source code targeting four German companies was the work of a professional penetration tester. The tester was checking clients’ resilience against…

Zyxel silently patches command injection vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating

Enlarge (credit: Zyxel) Hardware manufacturer Zyxel quietly released an update fixing a critical vulnerability that gives hackers the ability to control tens of thousands of firewall devices remotely. The vulnerability, which allows remote…

Hackers are actively exploiting BIG-IP vulnerability with a 9.8 severity rating

Enlarge Researchers are marveling at the scope and magnitude of a vulnerability that hackers are actively exploiting to take full control of network devices that run on some of the world's biggest and…

US and its allies say Russia waged cyberattack that took out satellite network

Enlarge (credit: Sean Gladwell / Getty Images) The US and European Union on Tuesday said Russia was responsible for a cyberattack in February that crippled a satellite network in Ukraine and neighboring countries,…

Netflix’s ad-supported tier will reportedly roll out sooner than expected

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Anadolu Agency) Netflix has reportedly told employees it plans to roll out an ad-supported tier by the end of this year, sooner than expected. Additionally, Netflix's plan for…

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 things started. We've been planning this event for months, and as some of…

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 missile system fires rockets every second. Tanks and military vehicles are parked on…