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Firearms

Legally Carried Handguns Stop Two Brown Bear Attacks in Slovakia

Two men in Slovakia used legally carried handguns to stop separate brown bear attacks. Both escaped injury, underscoring the value of an immediately available defensive firearm when a bear charges.

Sep 15, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

BambooToken malware controls Windows and Linux systems via MQTT

A previously unknown malware framework called BambooToken, active since at least 2023, is now using the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol to communicate with Windows and Linux systems. [...]

Sep 15, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

Hackers target WordPress sites via third-party WooCommerce plugin

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture premium plugin for WordPress to upload a PHP backdoor. [...]

Sep 15, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

What Zero-Day Response Should Be in the Post-Mythos Era

AI is shrinking the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation, leaving defenders less time to wait for patches or public exploits. Picus Security explains how exploitability validation, security control testing, and autonomous pentesting can help teams close exposure…

Sep 15, 2026Read Brief →
Technology

Trump EPA moves to wipe out climate rules for power plants

EPA says power plant emissions have no material impact on climate change.

Sep 15, 2026Read Brief →
Technology

GM gives its most important trucks a new UI—and includes CarPlay

The new look debuts in the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and 2027 GMC Sierra pickup trucks.

Sep 15, 2026Read Brief →
Technology

This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn't happened in 175 years

But there may be a price to pay for a quiet Atlantic hurricane season.

Sep 15, 2026Read Brief →
Technology

Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost

Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.

Sep 15, 2026Read Brief →
Firearms

Highland Park Lawsuit Subpoenas James Reeves, Treats Gun Reviews as ‘Advertising’

Firearms reviewer James Reeves says plaintiffs suing Smith & Wesson have subpoenaed years of information about his gun reviews while defining even unpaid social-media content as advertising.

Sep 14, 2026Read Brief →
Technology

Prehistoric builders transported Devil's Arrows 11 miles

Isotropic analysis revealed the most likely source to be Brimham Rocks, not the nearby Plumpton Rocks.

Sep 14, 2026Read Brief →
Technology

Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review

Valve's new $1,049 VR hardware tries to revive an abandoned VR "revolution."

Sep 14, 2026Read Brief →
Technology

"Offensively cheap": Solar power is looking up

Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities.

Sep 14, 2026Read Brief →