Published: 2023-03-28

NSO Group, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, best known for its notorious spyware, Pegasus, is marketed as a tool for "fighting terrorism". Pegasus has instead been widely used by authoritarian regimes and governments to spy on journalists, dissidents, activists, and political opponents.

The battle lines have been drawn, and the war isn’t between technologies anymore. It’s between the old priesthood of the command-line cult and the new empire of click-next-to-glory convenience.

You’re running a massive data center. You have thousands of virtual machines, petabytes of data, and enough computational power to simulate the heat death of the universe. Are you really going to trust your infrastructure to an operating system known for forcing updates at the worst possible time?

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have engineered micro-robots capable of behaving both as a fluid and as a solid!