Day: May 19, 2025

Three Steps Coinbase Users Should Take After a Hack (bribe of support agents) Compromised One Million Accounts

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Data breaches are most often the work of external bad actors, but sometimes the call comes from inside the house. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has disclosed that hackers paid off support agents—both employees and contractors located outside the U.S.—who had access to company systems to provide customer data and then demanded a $20 million ransom not Read more about Three Steps Coinbase Users Should Take After a Hack (bribe of support agents) Compromised One Million Accounts[…]

Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app

Posted on by Robin Edgar

[…] Andy Schertzinger, Director of Engineering at Nextcloud, told The Register: “Google has decided to restore the permissions to our Android app so we can bring back the full file syncing functionality.” Nextcloud expects to release an update to the app shortly, and Schertzinger paid tribute to the broader community for its support. Nextcloud’s problem Read more about Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app[…]

Researchers Finally Link Long Covid ‘Brain Fog’ to Inflammation

Posted on by Robin Edgar

An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hill: A new study indicates the debilitating “brain fog” suffered by millions of long COVID patients is linked to changes in the brain, including inflammation and an impaired ability to rewire itself following COVID-19 infection. United Press International reported this week that the small-scale study, conducted by Read more about Researchers Finally Link Long Covid ‘Brain Fog’ to Inflammation[…]

First successful demonstration of quantum error correction of qudits for quantum computers

Posted on by Robin Edgar

In the world of quantum computing, the Hilbert space dimension—the measure of the number of quantum states that a quantum computer can access—is a prized possession. Having a larger Hilbert space allows for more complex quantum operations and plays a crucial role in enabling quantum error correction (QEC), essential for protecting quantum information from noise Read more about First successful demonstration of quantum error correction of qudits for quantum computers[…]