OpenAI announced a new initiative on Monday designed to help the open source community improve its cybersecurity game and ward off bugs. “Patch the Planet” (which is a not-so-subtle allusion to “Hack ...

A dead phone battery is usually just an inconvenience. When it's a phone you've also lost, it starts to feel like a genuine disaster, because the app you'd normally use to find it requires the phone ...

You step out of your car after a long haul in the middle of summer and realize the front end has turned into a magnet for all kinds of bugs. Everything from the bumper to the windshield is caked with ...

Dead bugs splattered in the front of a minivan - Rivernorthphotography/Getty Images You step out of your car after a long haul in the middle of summer and realize the front end has turned into a ...

Symbiosis, or the interaction of two unalike species, is common and often necessary for survival. In insects, symbiotic microbes often facilitate and promote the growth of hosts. Before the symbiotic ...

Leaffoored bug. Credit: Clinton & Charles Robertson via flickr, licensed under CC BY 2.0 Soon after hatching, leaffooted bug nymphs must embark on an energetically costly journey from the treetops to ...

Most of us like to keep our bedrooms as tidy, comfortable, and relaxing as possible. Because of that, it can be super alarming to find dead bed bugs on your mattress, on the baseboards near your bed, ...

Tech companies and open-source teams are facing a deluge of AI-discovered software vulnerabilities. Now we're starting to get a sense of how big a deluge it is. The Zero Day Initiative, the largest ...

The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition. Both Anthropic and OpenAI have ...