Hive Systems has released the 2025 edition of its password crack time estimate table, and it’s a doozy. Among many other findings, the company’s researchers calculated that all random passwords around 8 characters in length are easily brute-forced with only consumer-grade hardware.

Hive Systems used only 12 RTX 5090 cards for this experiment.

With the gaming world is buzzing over the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, the Video Game Hall of Fame at the Strong National Museum of Play announced some new additions. The new inductees for this year are Defender, Goldeneye 007, Quake, and Tamagotchi. This group of games had some serious competition to make the final cut, which included

Somewhere out in the cosmic deep—about 600 million light-years away—a wayward monster has been caught in the act. Using a combo of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble, and the NRAO Very Large Array, NASA has identified a ‘wandering’ supermassive black hole snacking on an unlucky star. The scene unfolded in what scientists call a Tidal Disruption