The FBI seized and took down two websites linked to the pro-Iranian hacktivist group Handala, which last week claimed responsibility for a destructive cyberattack against the U.S. medical tech giant Stryker.
As of Thursday, the contents of a…
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Closing AI learning gaps between leaders and employees
Despite heavy investment in AI tools, many organizations are struggling to realize its promised productivity gains. The issue is not the technology itself, but a widening gap between leadership ambition and employee capability. This gap
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CISA urges companies to secure Microsoft Intune systems after hackers mass-wipe Stryker devices
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned companies to secure systems for managing their fleets of employee devices after pro-Iran hackers broke into medical tech giant Stryker and mass-wiped thousands of its…
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A student volunteer was sent into a room with 100 hungry mosquitoes. Here’s why
“Four minutes is too long.”
That’s the note undergraduate Chris Zuo sent me along with…
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A field guide to the runaway greenhouse
In a recent post on his Substack, Jim Hansen wrote about “runaway climates” on Earth, and I thought it would be useful to explain the physics of what this actually means and whether it’s something we need to worry about.
A runaway greenhouse…
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NASA Laser Reflecting Instrument Makes GPS Satellite More Accurate
A NASA laser reflecting technology that will aid Global Positioning System (GPS) accuracy is now operational as of March 9.
The instrument, known as a laser retroreflector array, or LRA, launched aboard GPS III SV-09, the ninth of U.S….
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Microsoft hands Copilot haters and ‘Microslop’ pushers yet more ammunition with ‘how to’ videos that showcase an embarrassing use of AI
- Microsoft has used Copilot to generate images for ‘how to’ articles
- Some of these pics have gone badly wrong, showing parts of the Windows 11 interface featuring glaring mistakes
- This is embarrassing at the very least, and possibly confusing for…
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Startup Battlefield 200 nominations are still open
Pre-Series A founders, this is your reminder! Nominations for Startup Battlefield 200 are still open, and the arena is already filling up. If you’ve been planning to apply, now’s the time to move.
At TechCrunch Disrupt…
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The brain region associated with moral inconsistency
Why don’t some people practice what they preach? Researchers reveal that a brain region called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is involved. The researchers used fMRI imaging to identify brain activity patterns associated with moral…
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An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission
An experimental artificial intelligence (AI) agent broke from the constraints of its testing environment and used its newfound freedom to start mining cryptocurrency without permission.
Dubbed ROME, the AI was created by Chinese researchers at…
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