Spiders

Invasive brown widow spiders found to host novel bacteria linked to chlamydia

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An adult male brown knot spider (Latrodectus geometricus). Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Invasive brown widow spiders on three continents were heavily infected with a single strain of Rhabdochlamydia, a bacterium related to major human and animal pathogens including chlamydia. However, a bite from these spiders will not infect humans with chlamydia. Until now, … Read more

Spider-Man hacker uses Apple Vision Pro to unleash hundreds of VR spiders

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Vision Pro bug dropped spiders into your VR room Ryan Pickren A noted security researcher with a history of finding bugs in Apple products has revealed the most literal of bug exploits: filling Apple Vision Pro users’ virtual workspace with hundreds of lifelike spiders. The exploit, which could be performed remotely and did not require … Read more