Lessons From a Virus Tracing Dud

Android Automotive OS review: Under the hood with Google’s car OS

Enlarge / Please don’t actually drive while wearing a giant Android mask. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Polestar) Can Google do to car infotainment what it did to smartphones? Every car manufacturer nowadays needs to include an infotainment system with its car, and that means developing an operating system, making a UI that isn’t terrible, building […]

Oldest DNA from poop contains a Neanderthal’s microbiome

Enlarge / El Salt is an open-air rock shelter nestled against the base of a limestone cliff. Archaeological evidence tells us that Neanderthals lived here from around 60,700 to 45,200 years ago. (credit: Candela et al. 2021) Biologist Marco Candela and his colleagues recently sequenced ancient microbial DNA from 50,000-year-old Neanderthal feces found at the […]

Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A researcher has uncovered one of the more unusual finds in the annals of malware: boobytrapped files available on sites frequented by software pirates that rat out downloaders and try to prevent unauthorized downloading in the future. Vigilante, as SophosLabs Principal Researcher Andrew Brandt is calling the malware, gets installed when […]