A major solar flare erupted from the sun on Thursday in the strongest storm yet of our star’s current weather cycle. The sun fired off an X1-class solar flare, its most powerful kind of flare, that peaked at 11:35 a.m. EDT (1535 GMT), according to an alert from the U.S. Read more…
Iran’s president said Wednesday that a cyberattack which paralyzed every gas station in the Islamic Republic was designed to get “people angry by creating disorder and disruption,” as long lines still snaked around the pumps a day after the incident began. NPR reports: Ebrahim Raisi’s remarks stopped short of assigning Read more…
According to updated CDC guidelines, people with compromised immune systems may get a fourth mRNA COVID-19 shot. The CDC authorized a third dose for certain immunocompromised people 18 and older in August. It said a third dose, rather than a booster — the CDC makes a distinction between the two Read more…
A cheap antidepressant reduced the need for hospitalization among high-risk adults with COVID-19 in a study hunting for existing drugs that could be repurposed to treat coronavirus. Researchers tested the pill used for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder because it was known to reduce inflammation and looked promising in smaller studies. Read more…
The operators of the Grief ransomware have listed today the US National Rifle Association (NRA) as a victim of one of their attacks. The organization’s name was listed on a dark web portal, often called a “leak site,” where the Grief gang typically lists companies they infected and which haven’t Read more…
Sophie Fornairon’s independent bookshop has survived the rise of Amazon thanks to a French law that prohibits price discounting on new books, but she says the e-commerce giant’s ability to undercut on shipping still skews the market against stores like hers. Fornairon, who owns the Canal Bookstore in central Paris, Read more…
The United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death rate has reached its highest rate since just after the peak of the last lockdown in March. This has been happening as the new AY.4.2 variant of the Delta strain of the SARS-COV-2 virus has begun to dominate in the UK. Coming into winter, the Read more…