Earlier this week, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that 68 tech companies — notably including heavyweights such as Google and Microsoft — signed the agency’s volunt

Watching three masked men smash their way into a luxury watch shop in Tokyo’s upmarket Ginza district in broad daylight, some onlookers assumed they were witnessing a TV drama or movie shoot. But the heist in May 2023 was real. It was carried out by a group of teenagers aged between 16 and 19 who…

Bookending Mandy Brown — 08 May 2024 Here’s a small trick that worked for me over the dozen years I led remote teams: at the end of your working day, shut down every app on your machine. Yes, all of them. Stash your tabs somewhere if you must, but close them all down. The only exception that may be…

The world is on the verge of a climate abyss, the UN has warned, in response to a Guardian survey that found that hundreds of the world’s foremost climate experts expect global heating to soar past th

Kevin Beaumont 15 min read· May 3, 2024 -- Recently, Microsoft had quite frankly a kicking from the US Department of Homeland Security over their security practices in a Cyber Safety Review Board report. I’ve tried to keep as quiet as possible about this one for various reasons (and I was not…

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Results of tests run by the Food and Drug Administration show that pasteurization is working to kill off bird flu in milk and other dairy products, the agency says. "In addition to preliminary results

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Jessica Wildfire Apr 28, 2024 Photo by CDC on Unsplash April 28 2024 11:13 AM 5 min read Share Email Everyone's talking about bird flu now. It's an evolving situation. Right now, the mainstream news m

Over the last few months, many have proposed that the AI spam taking over Facebook is a great example of the “Dead Internet Theory,” which posits that large portions of the internet are made up of bot

The first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defiance of government orders, staged a sit-in protest after claiming he was locked out of his laboratory over the w

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Analysis Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples produced by Pulumi AI – a developer that uses an AI chatbot to generate infrastructure – and the rotten recipes are already appear

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Jeshua Erickson 3 min read· Apr 28, 2024 -- I’m drawn to concepts or book titles that appear contradictory. So, naturally, “Slow Productivity” by Cal Newport appealed to me at a basic level. I work in cybersecurity as a security architect, so I could be considered a “knowledge worker.” Newport…

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Dairy cows being moved across states must be tested for the bird flu, under a federal order issued on Wednesday aimed at containing the spread of the virus across US cattle farms. The clampdown comes

Ukraine’s foreign minister has enthusiastically praised US politicians for approving a long-delayed $61bn military aid package for Ukraine, but said western allies needed to recognise that “the era of peace in Europe is over” and that Kyiv would inevitably need more help to fight off Russia.…

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The U.S. economy slowed dramatically at the outset of 2024, though it continued to grow at a solid pace. The finding, released in a Commerce Department report this week, renewed a question that has li

Image Credits:Seattle Times/TNS / Getty Images Government & Policy FCC officially votes to reinstate net neutrality Devin Coldewey 10:30 AM PDT · April 25, 2024 The Federal Communications Commission made its official vote Thursday to reinstate net neutrality, which bars broadband providers from…

Dane Sherrets 6 min read· Apr 7, 2024 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size TL;DR In August of 2023 I applied the “State Machine” research from James Kettle on the World ID SDK and identified a Race Condition that would have enabled an attacker to bypass the preset verification limit on…

Joe Leon The Dig April 25, 2024 (The) Postman Carries Lots of Secrets (The) Postman Carries Lots of Secrets Joe Leon April 25, 2024 tl;dr Postman, the popular API testing platform, hosts the largest collection of public APIs. Unfortunately, it’s become one of the largest public sources of leaked…

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Eternal sunshine of the spotless LLM Making an LLM forget is harder than it seems In a recent paper, Ronen Eldan and Mark Russinovich wrote: “We effectively erase the model's ability to generate or re

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interview We know Google search results are being hammered by the proliferation of AI garbage, and the web giant's attempts to curb the growth of machine-generated drivel haven't helped all that much.

Review The mechanism and various factors that link the interaction between the gut and the brain has been studied widely since the last decade, of which the most prominent mechanisms described below can be majorly attributed to the impact []. The gut-brain axis comprises the brain, endocrine system,…

Lancet study solidifies evidence of long-term viral persistence after COVID; demonstrates urgency of sustained research into the chronic health consequences of the virus UCSF LIINC research coordinator Marin Ewing collects blood from a study participant. Medford MA, April 8, 2024 – Research…

In November, Google’s AI outfit DeepMind published a press release titled “Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning." But now, researchers who have analyzed a subset of what DeepMind di