Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris for president, posting on Instagram shortly after the US presidential debate to say, “I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presi
September 3, 2024 Share Download PDF Peer Reviewed GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation Academic journals, ar
Consumer and digital rights activists are calling on the US Federal Trade Commission to stop device-makers using software to reduce product functionality, bricking unloved kit, or adding surprise fees
Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record, making it even more likely that this year will end up as the warmest humanity has measured, the European climate service Copernicus reported on Frid
Becky Bracken, Senior Editor, Dark ReadingMarch 8, 2024 3 Min Read Source: Roman Samborskyi via Alamy Stock Photo Cybersecurity professionals are finding it more attractive to take their talents to th
The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) declared condemnation of AI “classist and ableist,” and participants in its annual writing challenge are pissed. In a Zendesk post p
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers remarks alongside Ukrainian officials at the Department of Justice in 2022 in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The U.S. Department of Justice
Ginni Thomas, the far-right activist wife of the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, has thanked a religious liberties group for its efforts to block reforms of the court aimed at reining in the ju
Planned Parenthood of Montana's chief exec says the org is responding to a cyber-attack on its systems, and has drafted in federal law enforcement and infosec professionals to help investigate and reb
US employers added 142,000 jobs last month, the labor department announced on Friday, in one of the year’s most closely watched economic news releases. The release comes as the US Federal Reserve prep
Employers added 142,000 jobs in August, continuing a labor market cooling trend that has stoked fears that interest rates have been high for too long. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.2 percent.
US News Published on September 6, 2024 Advertisment17 Hospitals in the United States will soon be required to report hospital admissions related to COVID-19, restoring a mandate which was lifted earli
Elysia Berman remembers the moment she realized her shopping was out of control. Last December, she ducked into a store to buy a pair of gloves. And she came out with a $600 coat she didn’t need and c
A new variant of the ongoing sextortion email scams is now targeting spouses, saying that their husband or wife is cheating on them, with links to the alleged proof. In sextortion emails, scammers pre
Founder Mode September 2024 At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the best they'd ever heard. Ron
Nathan Eddy, Contributing WriterSeptember 6, 2024 5 Min Read Source: Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH via Alamy Stock Photo With more than half a million cybersecurity jobs unfilled nationwide in th
A person in Missouri with no known animal contact has tested positive for H5 bird flu, the state’s department of health and senior services said Friday. It’s the first time a patient in the US outbrea
Research illustration by Tom Dolan. Credit: University of Kentucky New research from the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging shows compelling evidence that the cognitive impairments
Public Service Announcement Scientists and Economists Alert! Global Emergency Compounded by the AIDS-like Features of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Over a million people in the US are being infected with sever
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women. The team had been building computer programs since 2014
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The Justice Department is suing the Georgia Institute of Technology and an affiliate company, claiming they failed to meet the cybersecurity standards required for obtaining Pentagon contracts. The U.
I found an essay last week that dug into some of the dynamics of the “AI” hype bubble we’ve found ourselves in. It’s well worth your time. [2408.08778] Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate I
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about the security risks in the machine learning (ML) software supply chain following the discovery of more than 20 vulnerabilities that could be exploited to tar
By Artem Dinaburg Today we’re going to provision some cloud infrastructure the Max Power way: by combining automation with unchecked AI output. Unfortunately, this method produces cloud infrastructure
Dizzy spells can be a symptom of myocarditis (Image: Getty) Campaigners have welcomed the first National Awareness Day for a potentially deadly condition that has been linked to both Covid-19. Myocard
Yesterday, my dumb Twitter post unexpectedly went viral. Some of the commenters read too much into it and pixel-peeped the attached photos — but what struck me was that some of their zoomed-in crops w
Robert is a bright and sparky 19-year-old who has always dreamed of becoming an engineer. He enjoyed maths and science throughout school and was accepted into a local university engineering program. B
Chinese government-backed hackers have penetrated deep into U.S. internet service providers in recent months to spy on their users, according to people familiar with the ongoing American response and
Weight-loss drugs are poised to revolutionise healthcare by slowing down the ageing process and by allowing people to live for longer and in better health. That is the dramatic message from leading sc
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Data availability All data supporting the findings of this study are available within the paper, extended data or in the source data files. Viral whole-genome sequencing data have been deposited to NC
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Two people in eastern Wisconsin and one person in northeastern Illinois have died of West Nile virus, according to health officials. A third person in Wisconsin has been hospitalized because of the mo
Scientists say they have created a “smart mask” that can analyse the wearer’s breath and detect tell-tale signs of disease. Researchers hope the device – which can beam its data to an app over Bluetoo