Meta’s new values neglect its below-deck problems

The SolarWinds hackers aren’t back—they never went away

Enlarge / “And people reliably click on these emails? Really?” (credit: Kremlin official photo) The Russian hackers who breached SolarWinds IT management software to compromise a slew of United States government agencies and businesses are back in the limelight. Microsoft said on Thursday that the same “Nobelium” spy group has built out an aggressive phishing […]

China Finishes lunar sampling Assignment, eyes Following steps onto the Moon

Expand / / Employees at the landing page of the return capsule of China’s Chang’e 5 stunt at Siziwang Banner, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Dec. 17, 2020. (charge: Xinhua/Ren Junchuan through Getty Images) China’s increasingly challenging space program finished a 23-day assignment on Wednesday that culminated at the yield of approximately 2kg […]

Before the new version, let’s revisit 1984’s Dune—the greatest movie ever made

Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel Dune gets a new film adaptation—this one helmed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049)—later this month. But before Ars Technica reviews the movie, there’s the matter of its predecessor: 1984’s Dune, made by a then up-and-coming filmmaker named David Lynch. Detractors call Lynch’s saga—a tale of two noble space families 8,000 years […]