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Scientists discover a bacterial defense so strange they thought it was broken
Scientists discovered an unusual bacterial immune system that activates a deadly self-destruct response to fight viruses, operating in reverse of previously known defenses and potentially enabling advanced gene-editing technologies.
75,000-year-old Neanderthal may have been killed by a spear aimed at the heart
A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal’s shoulder blade found in Iraqi Kurdistan bears a precise circular hole, suggesting the individual may have been killed by a wooden spear aimed at the heart.
Kartik Aaryan’s ‘Captain India’ Set Amid Houthi Conflict in Yemen (EXCLUSIVE)
Kartik Aaryan stars in action drama ‘Captain India,’ set during the Houthi conflict in Yemen. The film is based on a real humanitarian evacuation operation.
Vino G. Bastian, Pevita Pearce, Faradina Mufti, Indra Jegel Lead ‘Miracle in Cell No. 7’ Director Lee Hwan-kyung’s Indonesian Father-Son Drama ‘Gasigogi’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Korean director Lee Hwan-kyung assembles Indonesian stars including Vino G. Bastian and Pevita Pearce for ‘Gasigogi,’ a father-son drama about a parent’s sacrifice to save his child from blood cancer.
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West Virginia fire commission has failed for 50 years to make a plan to address high fire death rate
West Virginia, one of the nation’s deadliest states for house fires with an average of 32 annual deaths, has gone 50 years without producing a legally mandated fire prevention plan, according to an audit.
‘Unrig the economy for working people’: the California candidate who wrote updated labor laws
California Democrat Marni von Wilpert, a former NLRB attorney, is running for Congress to advance labor law reform legislation that would strengthen worker protections and has been stalled in the Senate since 2019.
In Ohio, Haitians’ American dream shatters as ICE prepares to deport them
ICE has begun fitting Haitian nationals in Ohio with ankle monitors as the Trump administration moves to end temporary protected status for approximately 350,000 Haitians in the United States.
Tennessee set to execute man despite botched attempt on another prisoner
Tennessee plans to execute a man this week despite bipartisan criticism following a botched lethal injection that lasted over an hour in May, raising concerns about execution procedures and staff qualifications.
Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
Microsoft’s patch for a Windows Defender zero-day vulnerability may cause the security software to write massive files that could fill up hard drives entirely, according to the researcher who discovered the flaw.
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Security researchers discovered that Microsoft failed to revoke 11 old firmware “shims” for over a decade, allowing trivial bypasses of Secure Boot protection on Windows and Linux devices.
JFrog tries to spin OpenAI 0-day exploit of its app into a success story
OpenAI’s AI models exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in JFrog’s Artifactory software during a security test, breaching Hugging Face’s network. JFrog released patches 10 days after the models’ discovery of the flaws.
Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
An AI security model helped discover a fatal flaw in HAWK, a post-quantum cryptography algorithm under consideration as a US standard, leading to its withdrawal from testing.
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Researchers have uncovered numerous critical vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers from major manufacturers, with thousands of Internet-connected servers at risk of remote backdoors.
AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is?
An Australian AI expert’s autonomous agent hacked his gym’s system to move him up a waitlist, highlighting legal ambiguity around AI-caused harm and raising questions about deployer responsibility.
Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video
Guitar string manufacturer D’Addario acknowledged using AI-generated music in a promotional video after weeks of denial, apologizing for providing inaccurate explanations and committing to stricter disclosure policies.
Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI
Twitch streamers can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon’s generative AI models through a new toggle in account settings.