Author: Taylor Lowery

This attack has a detail that keeps bothering me. When a victim clicks the phishing link, their browser momentarily visits login.microsoftonline.com, one of Microsoft’s own servers, before discreetly dropping them onto a page that is under the control of criminals. It only takes a few seconds to complete the handoff. Nothing out of the ordinary is visible to the user. When a trusted Microsoft domain is detected, the email security gateway allows it to pass. The attacker has achieved their goal in an instant. Science fiction is not what this is. Microsoft Defender researchers have been monitoring a number of…

Every foldable phone ever produced has a line running down the center of it. It runs the entire length of the screen, directly at the hinge, serving as a tiny, constant reminder that the technology is still in its early stages. The majority of owners learn to disregard it. However, no one ever completely stops observing it—not on the Motorola Razr, not on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold, not on any of them. That crease has been the most persistent issue facing the foldable industry for the past seven years. There might be a solution to that issue at last.…

It has an almost paradoxical quality. Large quantities of something as basic as water are required by the machines that create the most advanced technology in the world, such as the chips that drive AI models, smartphones, satellites, and surgical robots. Each facility uses millions of gallons every day. Furthermore, there is simply not enough of it in the areas where those facilities are being constructed. This is not a problem that will easily be resolved in ten years, according to some analysts. Quietly, it’s already happening in France, Taiwan, and Arizona. Roughly 40% of all existing semiconductor manufacturing facilities…

Before environmental issues become popular, there is a certain amount of silence surrounding them. Scientists were already discovering single-use plastics in deep ocean sediment ten years before they were discussed at dinner tables. Something that people carry in their pockets on a daily basis seems to be the focus of that same silence. Microplastics are being released by your smartphone, or more precisely, by the plastic case that surrounds it. continuously. into the air, against your palm, and onto objects you come into contact with. According to a 2022 study that was published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, phone…

Meg Green probably thinks about that moment more than she acknowledges. It was right before the weekend of Memorial Day. She was 26 years old, had Type 1 diabetes, and was sitting with online instructions to hack her insulin pump. Her goal was to make the device smarter than its manufacturer had bothered to make it, not to steal anything or hurt anyone. The hack was successful. That evening, she went out and drank with friends while her insulin was subtly adjusted by her pump. Throughout the evening, she remained steady. “I just wanted to cry,” she later admitted. You…

Beneath the internet, there has been an unwritten agreement for years. Apps, platforms, and services are available to you for free. They obtain your information, including your location history, late-night searches, shopping preferences, and health concerns. There was never a written record of the arrangement. The majority of people didn’t give it much thought. And somewhere in that quiet, a multibillion-dollar industry was subtly constructed on top of the digital lives of regular people. There is beginning to be significant opposition to that quiet arrangement. A small but increasing number of startups are now creating what they refer to as…

Around the third or fourth Apple privacy announcement of the year, you begin to question whether the company is actually protecting its users or if it is just improving the appearance of protection. That question seems more pertinent than it has in years as the iPhone 18 Pro gets closer to its September 2026 release. Apple has consistently marketed privacy in addition to its hardware. As identifiable as the aluminum chassis and the bitten fruit on the back, it now forms part of the brand’s identity. To be fair, part of that reputation has been earned by the company. A…

One type of change is one that doesn’t make an announcement. It doesn’t come with a big headline or a press conference. It appears at the permits office with a marginally shorter wait time. An official email that makes sense. Benefits claims are processed in a matter of days rather than months. Artificial intelligence is currently bringing about that kind of change within government agencies, and it’s happening more quickly than most people realize. By 2026, over 50% of government agencies globally will have used AI in some capacity. When you take into account the typical characteristics of government bureaucracies—underfunded,…

Imagine a building that has collapsed, the floors folded over one another, dust still in the air, and people waiting to be discovered somewhere beneath it all. The rubble doesn’t care about the urgency of first responders’ prompt arrival. Accessing some of those areas puts more lives in danger. For many years, more people, more hours, and more hope were the only practical solutions to the issue that has defined disaster response. Quietly, that calculus is starting to change. In search and rescue situations, swarm robotics—systems in which dozens, occasionally hundreds or thousands of tiny robots cooperate without a central command—is…

Most corporate networks operate under the antiquated belief that once you’re inside, you’re safe. The reasoning is similar to that of a gated community where, once the front barrier is lifted, no one checks who is driving through. Organizations built perimeter defenses and firewalls based on that premise for decades. When data was stored on local servers and employees were seated in offices, it functioned fairly well. The assumption didn’t change when the world did. What security experts once referred to as the perimeter has been dismantled by remote work, cloud infrastructure, third-party vendor access, and IoT sensors humming away…