Baby manta rays stick to the shallows to avoid sharks and orca

A baby manta ray swimming near Central America. Image: Jeffry Madrigal Before giant manta rays (Mobula birostris) can grow to up to 30 feet long and 4,409 pounds, they must start small like most living things. Giant manta ray babies (called pups) in Central America don’t have their size to protect them from orca whalesContinue Reading

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If KeePassXC is your password-management app of choice on Linux, the new 2.8.0 update is going to please. KeePassXC 2.8.0 sees some “long-awaited new features” arrive, including a Qt6 port of the main app interface, auto-type support on Wayland via XDG Desktop Portals, fingerprint unlock and a new experimental Aarch64 AppImage.Continue Reading

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I was taking my dog for her perambulation through the leafy valleys and forests of one of the most densely populated parts of London this morning when it struck me how annoying it has become that I must now update multiple Apple devices across my family group. That’s pretty much mandatory given recentContinue Reading

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Private keys associated with eight intermediate certificate authorities operated by Indian digital trust provider eMudhra have been compromised, potentially allowing attackers to forge trusted certificates and impersonate websites or services, according to Google and Mozilla. “On 17th October @ 20:06 UTC, Mozilla received a report to certificates@mozilla.org, forwarded by theContinue Reading

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Mozilla Firefox 158.0.1 is rolling out with some important security fixes. Now, I don’t tend to cover Firefox point releases as mainly ship minor fixes for things the majority of users won’t have noticed were wrong in the first place. The Firefox 158.0.1 update is more ‘meaty’ than usual fare.Continue Reading

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Ask an IT team a simple question, “How many laptops do we have?” and the answer often depends on who you ask and which console they open. For years, that ambiguity was manageable. People reconciled the differences in their heads, in spreadsheets, or in meetings. Ivanti research shows that 34%Continue Reading