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Cassian Holt

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The world’s first webcam was built just to watch an office coffee pot

A GPS receiver finds you by timing signals from at least four satellites

A chip the size of rice can pack tens of billions of transistors

The Space Station orbits every 90 minutes, so its crew sees 16 sunrises daily

Most ransomware gangs now steal your data before locking it, so backups alone fall short

One reused password can let a single leak unlock all your accounts

A satellite 22,000 miles up can hover over one spot as Earth turns

More than 95% of internet traffic crosses the oceans through seafloor cables

Two-step verification blocks the vast majority of automated account break-ins

A modern chip switches billions of transistors a second with no moving parts

One hair-thin glass fiber can carry more data than thousands of copper wires

Modern chips are etched with ultraviolet light at scales smaller than a virus

Every photo, song, and video you store is really just patterns of ones and zeros

Security researchers warn the same AI tools that hunt software bugs can be flipped around to find new ways into a network

SpaceX just launched a batch of its secretive Starshield spy satellites for the US government, a rare public look at the military version of Starlink

More than 40,000 cPanel servers are being hijacked in an ongoing attack that hands hackers entire web-hosting fleets

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