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Sit a person at a keyboard and ask them to sort words as fast as they can: flowers here, insects there, then pleasant words here and unpleasant ones there. And something small and stubborn shows up…
CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations team, working with U.S. and European law enforcement, disrupted the Sality botnet on Aug. 31, 2026, cutting off the machines it had infected from the…
Before a fusion shot fires, someone sits down with the plan for it and decides, phase by phase, which set of control instructions the machine will follow. Those instructions are called virtual…
Socket, an application-security company, said on Aug. 27 it had identified 19 malicious browser extensions, 18 in the Chrome Web Store and one in the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store, that drain…
Debian, the volunteer-run Linux distribution, has adopted a policy statement that "neither endorses nor prohibits" the use of generative AI tools in its software, packaging and documentation. The…
Take a climate model that runs on one supercomputer, move it to another, and you are not guaranteed to get the same climate back. Massonnet and colleagues, writing in Geoscientific Model Development…
The Qubes OS project has disclosed a flaw in its own file-copy tool that it says can hand an attacker control of an entire machine, and has shipped a patch for it. Qubes Security Bulletin 118 is…
Most record-setting spin qubits start with silicon that has had one of its own isotopes taken out. About one silicon atom in 20 is silicon-29, the element's only stable isotope with a magnetic…
The case for DNA as an archive has been the same for a decade. It is denser than anything engineered, it keeps for centuries in the cold and the dark, and it draws no power while it sits there. The…
One program in this benchmark never looks at the data. It ignores the step counts, the sleep hours and the resting heart rates, and returns the same number every time: the average score in the data…
The security firm VulnCheck said on Aug. 27 that it had found two more implants built into the shipped firmware of routers made by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics, or ZBT, and that its own internet…
Tencent released Hy4 preview on Aug. 28 and published the model's weights on Hugging Face, where the repository carries an Apache 2.0 license, terms that permit commercial use, modification and…