Game of Thrones blunder: Arya Stark and Grey Worm both made this blunder – did you notice?

Game of Thrones came to a brutal end this year as the final battles for Winterfell and Westeros brought the show’s main characters to their knees. One of the biggest fights was the one which involved both the living, and the dead – the battle against the Night King (played by Vladimir Furdik). However, after […]

Game of Thrones Stars Break Down Grey Worm and Missandei’s Goodbye, Tease the Harrowing Battle Ahead

There’s a good reason Grey Worm kissed Missandei with such abandon in Sunday’s Game of Thrones: For perhaps the first time, says portrayer Jacob Anderson, he’s quite worried that he might never see her again. “For Grey Worm and Missandei at this point, and I guess for the Unsullied and for the Dothraki as well, […]

Unpatched systems at big companies continue to fall to WannaMine worm

Enlarge / This old mine is still yielding somebody Monero. (credit: Max Pixel (CC)) In May of 2017, the WannaCry attack—a file-encrypting ransomware knock-off attributed by the US to North Korea—raised the urgency of patching vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system that had been exposed by a leak of National Security Agency exploits. WannaCry leveraged […]

‘What is this?’ Woman finds ‘Stranger Things’ alien worm in front porch (VIDEO)

A UK woman has sent the internet wild with footage of what appears to be an alien-like worm rat invading her home. Filmed in Portsmouth, the bizarre creature has been compared to a monster from hit sci-fi show ‘Stranger Things’. In the Netflix drama, residents of a fictional US town are spooked by a number […]

Selfies show worm slithered through woman’s face for 2 weeks

Enlarge / Doctors were able to extract the worm, a D. repens. (credit: Kartashev and Simon) A 32-year-old woman who visited a rural area outside of Moscow returned home with a surprising stowaway—in her face. And it was a restless one at that, according to a short report published this week in the New England […]

In terse statement, White House blames Russia for NotPetya worm

Enlarge / White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement today declaring that Russia would face “international consequences” for releasing the NotPetya malware worm. (credit: Getty Images) Following form with a finding by the government of the United Kingdom, the White House issued a statement formally blaming Russia’s military for unleashing NotPetya, the destructive […]

Broadcom chip bug opened 1 billion phones to a Wi-Fi-hopping worm attack

Enlarge (credit: Cheon Fong Liew) LAS VEGAS—It’s not often that a security researcher devises an attack that can unleash a self-replicating attack which, with no user interaction, threatens 1 billion smartphones. But that’s just what Nitay Artenstein of Exodus Intelligence did in a feat that affected both iOS and Android devices. At the Black Hat […]

This worm grew a second head after a trip to space

There are all kinds of experiments going on aboard the International Space Station, but they all probably don’t produce results as strange as this one. An article published today in the journal Regeneration details a recent experiment in which an amputated flatworm grew two heads — twice. Planarian flatworms are known to have extraordinary regenerative […]