Physicists Have Argued Over This Problem Since 1883. It May Now Be Solved.

For more than a century, physicists debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments ...
Interesting Engineering

Mathematicians use children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve decades-old physics mystery

A team of mathematicians from US universities has solved the Sprinkler Problem, a decades-old physics mystery regarding how a ...

Hackers backdoor Jscrambler npm package with infostealer malware

The Jscrambler client-side web security company disclosed that a threat actor published a malicious version of its npm ...

Solution to Feynman’s reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to “silly sprinklers”

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...

HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

"Idempotent" may be jargon, but the term performs an important job in HTTP as a hall pass that gives reverse proxies and ...

Fact Check: Vance once posted 'Black Lives Matter' and 'No human is illegal' message. It was a joke

In late June and early July 2026, a rumor spread online that U.S. Vice President JD Vance once posted online: "In this house ...

Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets

With the ability to take control of distributed devices at scale, HalluSquatting has the potential to achieve various ...
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Kernel Flaws, AI Malware Tricks, Turla Backdoor, Infostealers and More

This week was a reminder that attackers do not always need big tricks. One small mistake, one old access path, one missed patch, and suddenly the door is open. The noise is not all noise, either.