How SLMs and knowledge graphs supercharge AI
Hardly a week goes by without a breakthrough in LLMs (large language models). They’re cheaper…
How Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insights
Finance analysts across Amazon Finance face mounting complexity in financial planning and analysis processes. When working with vast datasets spanning multiple systems, data lakes, and business units, analysts encounter several critical challenges. First, they spend significant time manually browsing data catalogs and reconciling data from disparate sources, leaving less time for valuable analysis and insight…
NHS to lose out on new drugs, pharma firm Novartis warns
Pritti MistryBusiness reporter, BBC News PA Media NHS patients will lose access to new cutting-edge treatments because of skyrocketing costs, the pharmaceutical giant Novartis has claimed amid a row over drug pricing deals. The warning comes after talks over the cost of medicines for the UK between Health Secretary Wes Streeting and pharma firms broke…
Price of Mounjaro could be discounted in UK pharmacies
The company behind popular weight loss drug Mounjaro has offered a discounted deal to UK suppliers which is expected to limit the price increase to consumers from September. Earlier this month, Eli Lilly announced it was putting up the list price of the drug by as much as 170% which could have meant the cost…
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Increasing Searches for ZIP Files
I noticed recently that we have more and more requests for ZIP files in our web honeypot logs. Over the last year, we have had a substantial increase in these requests. Here are some of the most common URLs requested so far this year: url c …
Could a huge lunar telescope be our best chance of spotting aliens?
“In 2050 … the first 100 m-diameter telescope took shape in a crater on the lunar surface” Vladimir Vustyansky/NASA The All-Seeing Eye, which came into operation in the 2070s, was by far the largest and most powerful optical instrument ever built. Comprising eight telescopes built across the entire lunar surface, each with a 100-metre-diameter mirror,…
A tiny chip may have solved one of clean energy’s biggest problems
For decades, researchers around the world have searched for alternatives to iridium, an extremely rare, incredibly expensive metal used in the production of clean hydrogen fuels. Now, a powerful new tool has found one — within a single afternoon. Invented and developed at Northwestern University, that tool is called a megalibrary. The world’s first nanomaterial…
Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA
Chemists at UCL have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of life four billion years ago. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, the “workhorses” of life essential to nearly every living process. But proteins cannot replicate or…
Chasing the Silver Fox: Cat & Mouse in Kernel Shadows
Highlights: Check Point Research (CPR) uncovered an ongoing in-the-wild campaign attributed to the Silver Fox APT which involves the abuse of a previously unknown vulnerable driver, amsdk.sys (WatchDog Antimalware, version 1.0.600). This driver, built on the Zemana Anti-Malware SDK, was Microsoft-signed, not listed in the Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist, and not detected by community projects like LOLDrivers. The attackers leveraged this unknown…
Croydon incinerator broke pollution limits 916 times in two years
Esme StallardClimate and science reporter, BBC News Getty Images Beddington incinerator has breached its environmental permits on 916 occasions Beddington incinerator, which serves four south London councils, faces enforcement from the Environment Agency after exceeding air pollution limits on 916 occasions. The offences, which occurred between 2022 and 2024 at the energy-from-waste plant, were revealed…
