A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey.

According to court documents, 57-year-old Daniel Rhyne from Kansas City, Missouri, remotely accessed the company’s network without authorization using an administrator account between November 9 and November 25.

Throughout this time, he allegedly scheduled tasks on the company’s Windows domain controller to delete network admin accounts and to change the passwords for 13 domain admin accounts and 301 domain user accounts to “TheFr0zenCrew!”

In a society increasingly shaped by self-checkouts, GPS navigation and touchscreen ordering kiosks, new research shows face-to-face conversation may be quietly fading. A new study published in Perspectives on Psychological Science suggests that people are losing 338 spoken words every year and have been for at least a decade and a half.

Matthias Mehl, a psychology professor at the University of Arizona, has spent his career studying how people communicate in everyday life. When he set out to replicate his landmark 2007 Science paper on gender differences in talkativeness, the results pointed to something he hadn’t gone looking for: a steady, years-long decline in how much people speak each day.

For this study, Mehl collaborated with Valeria Pfeifer, an assistant professor of psychology and counseling at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and the study’s first author. Mehl spoke with the University of Arizona News about the accidental discovery, what it means for social connection, and why losing a few hundred words per day each year matters more than it seems.

Plant roots don’t have a nervous system, yet can produce sophisticated responses. What does that say about intelligence?

You don’t have to agree with it, I guess.

The minute animal had been collected from moss in Antarctica in 1983, before being unfrozen in 2014

The team behind the feat plan to study uterine disorders and the early stages of pregnancy—and potentially grow a human fetus.

What if the formula you bought at the store was just bottled breast milk?

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