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Monday November 13, 2023. 11:34 AM
There's already a powerful immunotherapy that 'involves engineering a patient's T cells so they recognize and attack cancer cells,' writes one of America's top cancer hospitals. The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center notes that CAR T cell therapy has already begun to...
Cells have a protein receptor that will cause that cell to die — in theory. Unfortunately, 'Previous efforts to target this receptor have been unsuccessful,' says Jogender Tushir-Singh, an associate professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the...
Around 40% of goods entering and leaving Australia are managed by a single ports operator. But from Friday to Monday morning, they were suffering from a cyberattack that had 'crippled' their facilities in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, reports the BBC: The outage has ...
MacRumors writes that the second beta of iOS 17.2 'adds a new feature that allows an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max to record Spatial Video' — that is, in the immersive 3D format for the yet-to-be-released Apple Vision Pro (where it can be viewed in the 'Photos' app):...
'In an open-air warehouse in California's Central Valley, 40-foot-tall racks hold hundreds of trays filled with a white powder that turns crusty as it absorbs carbon dioxide from the sky,' reports the New York Times. 'The start-up that built the facility, Heirloom Carbon...
Greek economist/politician Yanis Varoufakis 'was briefly Greek finance minister in 2015,' remembers the Conversation. Now his new book asks the question, 'What killed capitalism,' with the title's first word providing an answer. 'Techno-feudalism.' Varoufakis argues that we...
Sunday November 12, 2023. 11:25 PM
Images and information from social media (and other online sources) are being used by AI to create 'create convincing and personalized scam calls, texts and emails,' writes the Palm Beach Post, citing a warning from Florida's consumer watchdog agency. In an older version of...
Despite a six-episode Ms. Marvel miniseries on Disney+, audiences aren't turning out now to see the 16-year-old superhero's team-up with Captain Marvel on the big screen. The Marvels earned $47 million in its opening weekend, reports Deadline, 'the lowest ever for Disney's...
SysAid's system management software has 'a vulnerability actively being exploited to deploy Clop ransomware,' according to SiliconAngle: The warning came from Microsoft Corp.'s Threat Intelligence team, which wrote on X that it had discovered the exploitation of a zero-day...
Wednesday nearly half of Australia was left without internet or phone service after the country's second largest telecommunications company experienced a service outage affecting 10 million people. But that's not Optus's only problem, according to this report from the...
This week the Council of the European Union made an announcement. 'With a view to ensuring a trusted and secure digital identity for all Europeans, the Council presidency and European Parliament representatives reached today a provisional agreement on a new framework for a...
Started in 2013, 'Hour of Code' is an annual tradition started by the education non-profit Code.org (which provides free coding lessons to schools). Its FAQ describes the December event for K-12 students as 'a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science, starting with...
The senior security editor at Ars Technica writes: Highly invasive malware targeting software developers is once again circulating in Trojanized code libraries, with the latest ones downloaded thousands of times in the last eight months, researchers said Wednesday. Since...
This week the Verge's podcast Decoder interviewed former U.S. president Barack Obama for a discussion on 'AI, free speech, and the future of the internet.' Obama warns that future copyright questions are just part of a larger issue. 'If AI turns out to be as pervasive and as ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from security research Brian Krebs: In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply...
In Chrome, JavaScript (and WebAssembly) code are both executed by Google's open source V8 engine — which already has garbage-collecting capabilities. 'This means developers making use of, for example, PHP compiled to Wasm, end up shipping a garbage collector implementation...
This week GitHub announced the approaching general availability of the GPT-4-powered GitHub Copilot Chat in December 'as part of your existing GitHub Copilot subscription' (and 'available at no cost to verified teachers, students, and maintainers of popular open source...
'Dealers don't want to change the model. They want to be the gatekeepers.' That's according to Daniel Crane, a law professor at the University of Michigan who studies the laws and economics of car dealerships. He's quoted in a Washington Post article warning that 'Electric...
Saturday November 11, 2023. 11:55 PM
A a report from TechSpot says AMD has recently increased its market share in the CPU sector for desktops, laptops, and servers: According to Mercury Research (via Tom's Hardware), AMD gained 5.8% unit share in desktops, 3.8% in laptops, and 5.8% in servers. In terms of...
From AaronSwartzDay.com: Aaron Swartz Day was founded, in 2013, after the death of Aaron Swartz, with these combined goals: To draw attention to what happened to Aaron, in the hopes of stopping it from happening to anyone else. - This includes clarifying that, although Aaron ...
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