Meta says Iranian group tried to target Trump, Biden officials’ WhatsApp accounts
Meta (Facebook’s parent company) said it identified possible hacking attempts on the WhatsApp accounts of US officials from the Biden and Trump administrations. It blamed the Iranian hacker group APT42, which was previously revealed to have compromised the Trump campaign. The attempts involved accounts posing as tech support from companies like AOL, Google, and Yahoo. […]
Some black holes have a ‘heartbeat’ — and astronomers may finally know why
Some black holes have been observed to have a “heartbeat” – a regular pulsation of activity embedded within flare events when the black hole is consuming large amounts of surrounding gas and dust. The flare studied in this research came from the black hole IGR J17091-3624 located 28,000 light years from Earth. Data from NASA […]
Zuckerberg says he regrets caving to White House pressure on content
– Mark Zuckerberg and Meta (formerly Facebook) are facing increasing pressure from the White House over various issues like content moderation, election integrity, and foreign propaganda. – This pressure is coming as Biden and Democrats grow more critical of large tech platforms ahead of the 2024 elections. They want more aggressive policing of misinformation and […]