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The Dangerous Trend of “Ransomware-as-a-Service”

In addition to ransomware, another upcoming dangerous trend is selling “ransomware as a service.” Here is what you need to know about it and how to protect yourself.

By Simon Batt – Feb 17, 2017

How Images Can Infect Your Computer through Social Media

Can image files like JPEGs or PNG spread viruses? We tend to believe not, but here’s an incident on how images are used to infect computers through social media. Let’s find out!

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Nov 28, 2016

What is Cryptolocker and How Do You Prevent It?

Cryptolocker is a ransomware that locks users out of their files and demand money. How do you prevent yourself from falling victim to this vile threat?

By Alan Buckingham – Nov 10, 2013

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In 1979, a Sony engineer named Nobutoshi Kihara built the first Walkman prototype in four days because his boss Masaru Ibuka wanted to listen to opera on long flights, and the team launched it with no advertising budget, no headphone jack standard, and an internal forecast of 5,000 units a month that the device beat in its first fortnight.

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A four-month-old Chinese startup just launched a $118 AI collar that claims to translate dog and cat vocalizations into human sentences with 95% accuracy — an extraordinary consumer device that has secured $1 million in funding despite zero independent scientific proof that it actually works

May 30, 2026

NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s.

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The computer that landed Apollo 11 stored its code in “rope memory” that was physically woven by hand by a workforce of women in a Massachusetts factory, a wire through a magnetic ring meaning one and around it meaning zero, so the program that carried humans to the Moon was literally knitted into being.

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The U.S. Army has officially pushed “jailbroken” software updates to active weapon systems in the Middle East — a frantic, 30-day tactical sprint designed to strip away manufacturer code restrictions so legacy anti-drone cameras and missile radars can finally talk to each other

May 30, 2026

Five years ago, a group of researchers walked out of OpenAI over safety concerns to build a quiet rival named Claude — and after a historic $65 billion funding round that valued the company at $965 billion, those ex-employees have officially leapfrogged their former bosses to create the most valuable AI startup on Earth

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