CDC director has been ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation

Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told the outlet that Monarez “values science, is a solid ...
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Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns

The company tested 123 cases representing 29 different attack scenarios and found a 23.6 percent attack success rate when browser ...
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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Authors are celebrating a “historic” settlement expected to be reached soon in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic’s AI training data. ...
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Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

An early look at the streamlined Android Developer Console for sideloaded apps. Credit: Google Google says that only apps with ...
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Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with ...
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Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash with second-gen Starship

The 404-foot-tall (123-meter) Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster stand on SpaceX’s launch pad. In the foreground, there are empty ...
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An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

But it struggled with more complex phrases. Pushing the frontier Once the mental privacy safeguard was in place, the team ...
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Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

The recent resistance Academic work on the question of anti-wind farm activism is revealing a pattern: Conspiracy thinking is a ...
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Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Doctors soon discovered they were infected with the rare soil bacterium, which causes a disease called melioidosis. Dangerous infection Generally, ...
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Scientists are building cyborg jellyfish to explore ocean depths

Understanding the wakes and vortices that jellyfish produce as they swim is crucial, according to Wu, et al. Particle image ...
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