Nathan Eddy, Contributing WriterSeptember 6, 2024 5 Min Read Source: Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH via Alamy Stock Photo With more than half a million cybersecurity jobs unfilled nationwide in the US, private enterprise and the federal government alike are focusing efforts to help fill the gap…

A person in Missouri with no known animal contact has tested positive for H5 bird flu, the state’s department of health and senior services said Friday. It’s the first time a patient in the US outbreak has had no known exposure to sick animals. And it is the first time someone has been hospitalized…

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Back to all April 6, 2025August 17, 2024Scientists and Economists Alert!Global Emergency Compounded by the AIDS-like Features of SARS-CoV-2 InfectionOver a million people in the US are being infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) every day. Originally named…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women. The team had been building computer programs since 2014

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — A case of Eastern equine encephalitis has been confirmed in a horse in Northwood, health officials said Tuesday. EEE is a rare mosquito-borne virus. A man in Hampstead died last month after he was infected with the virus. Advertisement Several New Hampshire communities have…

Media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners, according to a CMG presentation obtained by 404 Media. The slide deck provides more…

The Justice Department is suing the Georgia Institute of Technology and an affiliate company, claiming they failed to meet the cybersecurity standards required for obtaining Pentagon contracts. The U.S. government had earlier joined a whistleblower suit brought by current and former members of…

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about the security risks in the machine learning (ML) software supply chain following the discovery of more than 20 vulnerabilities that could be exploited to tar

By Artem Dinaburg Today we’re going to provision some cloud infrastructure the Max Power way: by combining automation with unchecked AI output. Unfortunately, this method produces cloud infrastructure

Dizzy spells can be a symptom of myocarditis (Image: Getty) Campaigners have welcomed the first National Awareness Day for a potentially deadly condition that has been linked to both Covid-19. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle. Most people are oblivious to the fact that symptoms…

Yesterday, my dumb Twitter post unexpectedly went viral. Some of the commenters read too much into it and pixel-peeped the attached photos — but what struck me was that some of their zoomed-in crops w

Robert is a bright and sparky 19-year-old who has always dreamed of becoming an engineer. He enjoyed maths and science throughout school and was accepted into a local university engineering program. But just months into his first year Robert started having real doubts about whether pursuing this…

Chinese government-backed hackers have penetrated deep into U.S. internet service providers in recent months to spy on their users, according to people familiar with the ongoing American response and private security researchers.

Weight-loss drugs are poised to revolutionise healthcare by slowing down the ageing process and by allowing people to live for longer and in better health. That is the dramatic message from leading scientists after studies were presented last week at the European Society of Cardiology Conference in…

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Data availability All data supporting the findings of this study are available within the paper, extended data or in the source data files. Viral whole-genome sequencing data have been deposited to NCBI as Bioproject PRJNA1017824. SARS-CoV-2 reference genome accession MN908947.3. Source data are…

Summary Consumer spending increases 0.5% in JulyPCE price index rises 0.2%, advances 2.5% year-on-yearCore PCE inflation gains 0.2%; up 2.6% year-on-yearPersonal income climbs 0.3%; saving rate falls

Two people in eastern Wisconsin and one person in northeastern Illinois have died of West Nile virus, according to health officials. A third person in Wisconsin has been hospitalized because of the mosquito-borne illness, the Wisconsin department of health services said Thursday in a release. That…

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Haven't you ever wished that your juicy pork chops were perfectly seasoned all the way to the center? Or that your pork tenderloin were just a bit juicier and fattier? Or maybe that your flavorful, smoky ribs had a decisive snap when you bit in? Sausages are like the Voltron of the grilled-pork…

By travelling to the centre of the Earth via seismic waves scientists have discovered a ring-like structure within the swirling pool of molten metal known as the outer core. Research published in the journal Science Advances has identified a doughnut-shaped region within the outer core, parallel to…

Nearly 40,000 people died home alone in Japan this year, report says 30 August 2024 Hafsa KhalilBBC News Getty Images Almost 40,000 people died alone in their homes in Japan during the first half of 2024, a report by the country’s police shows. Of that number, nearly 4,000 people were discovered…

The US is making the same mistakes with the H5N1 bird flu virus as with Covid, even as the highly pathogenic avian influenza continues spreading on American farms and raising alarms that it could mutate to become a pandemic, public health experts argue in the New England Journal of Medicine. “We’re…

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A New Hampshire resident infected with the rare but potentially lethal mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus has died, state health authorities said. The Hampstead resident’s infection with the disease also known as EEE was the first in the state in a decade, the New Hampshire health and…

"I want to talk about three examples I see of cracks that are starting to form which signal big challenges in the future of OSS." I had a knee-jerk initial reaction to this post - what open source bubble?! - but Tara Tarakiyee makes some important points here about our dependence on open source code…

US job growth in the year through March was likely far less robust than initially estimated, which risks fueling concerns that the Federal Reserve is falling further behind the curve to lower interest rates. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. economists expect the government’s…

If you’ve ever had COVID-19 and got back to normal within a week or two, you’re lucky. Some people take months to recover (they have ‘Post-COVID-19 syndrome’, defined as symptoms lasting beyond 3 months) and an unfortunate few remain unwell for years (they have ‘Persistent Long COVID’, defined as…

A Palestinian baby in Gaza has been partly paralysed from polio in the first case there for 25 years, amid preparations for a difficult and dangerous vaccination campaign in the midst of war. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, confirmed that the affected…

One in five patients registered to a pair of GP surgeries in the north of England have long Covid, according to a report that lays bare stark regional inequalities. The north-west of England had higher than average numbers of people reporting long Covid symptoms, with just over one in 20 people…

"Critical risk" Town urges curfew over mosquito-spread disease that kills up to 50% of people Eastern Equine Encephalitis is very rare in the US, but when it strikes, it's bad. Beth Mole – Aug 22, 2024 1:09 pm | 182 A mosquito collected to test for mosquito-borne diseases. Credit: Getty | Jon Cherry…

Thailand has confirmed Asia’s first known case of a new, deadlier strain of mpox in a patient who had travelled to the country from Africa. The department of disease control said laboratory tests on the 66-year-old had confirmed he was infected with the mpox Clade 1b variant. “Thailand’s Department…

US job growth was probably far less robust in the year through March than previously reported, keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates next month. The number of workers on payrolls will likely be revised down by 818,000 for the 12 months through March — or around 68,000 less…