The U.S. Department of Energy will be investing $258 million to help six leading technology firms — AMD, Cray Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Intel, and Nvidia — research and build exascale supercomputers. Digital Trends reports: The funding will be…

A Canadian expedition to study climate change in the Arctic has been canceled due to climate change. Specifically, the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen had to be cancelled “due to complications associated with the southward motion of hazardous Arctic sea ice,” reports…

The federal government will finally stop preparing for the Y2K bug, seventeen years after it came and went. Yes, you read that right. Bloomberg reports: The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal…

InfiniteZero shares a report from Phys.Org: Did our sun have a twin when it was born 4.5 billion years ago? Almost certainly yes — though not an identical twin. And so did every other sun-like star in the universe, according…

dryriver shares a report from the BBC: Celebrated inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla swore by toe exercises — every night, he’d repeatedly “squish” his toes, 100 times for each foot, according to the author Marc J Seifer. While it’s not…

Researchers at Telefonica’s cybersecurity unit ElevenPaths conducted an analysis of WannaCry metadata.

University officials said users likely kicked off a ransomware attack that infected a dozen personal and shared drives by visiting a compromised website.

A Kaspersky Lab report on Thursday said an especially potent Nigerian Business Email Compromise campaign has stolen sensitive data from over 500 companies in 50 countries.

The latest “let’s see how YOU like it” project aims to track what government employees are up to online.

Mac ransomware is rare but Apple computers are far from immune – here’s how to protect yourself.