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Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | d3sign) Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages every year for hundreds of carriers including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, revealed to government regulators that a hacker gained unauthorized access to its databases for five years. Syniverse and carriers have not said whether the hacker had access […]
Rocket Lab is Planning to Try a first-stage Restoration
Expand / / An Electron cop stands to the launching pad at New Zealand, prepared to proceed. (charge: Rocket Lab) Rocket Lab said Thursday it will try to recoup the very first phase of its Electron rocket for the very first time using its second assignment, scheduled for liftoff at mid-November. This measure follows a […]
Spinning black holes may prefer to lean in sync
Enlarge / A simulation of a black hole merger. (credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)) I was pretty excited when LIGO, the giant double-eared gravitational wave observatory in the US, detected the first gravitational waves . When Virgo came online , triangulating gravitational wave signals became possible, and gravitational wave astronomy became a reality. Once the […]