Note: This brief was updated on January 7, 2026 to incorporate new data on abortion statistics. In the three years since the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, the total number of abortions nationally has slightly increased. The most recent data from the Society for Family Planning’s #WeCount project show that the average…
Even the smartest artificial intelligence models are essentially copycats. They learn either by consuming examples of human work or by trying to solve problems that have been set for them by human instructors. But perhaps AI can, in fact, learn in a more human way—by figuring out interesting questions to ask itself and attempting to…
As the threat landscape keeps shifting, security teams are being asked to do more than react. They are expected to look ahead, connect the dots, and make decisions in environments that change faster every year. That challenge was at the heart of Rapid7’s 2026 Security Predictions webinar, where our experts reflected on what the past…
The measurements are done. The scientists know how my body performs in a pleasant 21C. So the fans kick in and a cool breeze gradually lowers the temperature in the chamber. “Your brain is tasting your blood as we speak and it’s tasting the temperature and the brain is now sending signals to the rest…
When a model is trained, each word in its vocabulary is assigned a numerical value that captures the meaning of that word in relation to all the other words, based on how the word appears in countless examples across the model’s training data. Each word gets replaced by a kind of code? Yeah. But there’s…
James GallagherInside Health presenter, BBC Radio 4 Emma Lynch/BBC Braving the 3.9C water on a winter morning at the west reservoir in London It is a cold morning in the depths of winter. And I feel like I’ve left my sanity as well as my warm clothes in the changing room as I stride out…
Key takeaways GoBruteforcer (also called GoBrut) is a modular botnet, written in Go, that brute-forces user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers. The botnet spreads through a chain of web shell, downloader, IRC bot, and bruteforcer modules. The current wave of campaigns is driven by two factors: the…
Getty Images Baby outside in cold weather Winter often brings the challenge of dealing with icy weather and snow. Here are some tips for coping with low temperatures. How can I keep my baby warm? Babies and young children under five are more at risk in cold weather. While outside, the NHS advises that babies…
Nick TriggleHealth correspondent BBC Listen to this piece “Fat people just need more self-control.” “It’s about personal responsibility.” “It’s simple, just eat less.” These were some of the 1,946 comments, posted by readers, beneath an article I wrote last year about weight-loss injections. The idea that obesity is simply a matter of willpower is held…
Malicious use of QR codes has long been ubiquitous, both in the real world as well as in electronic communication. This is hardly surprising given that a scan of a QR code can lead one to a phishing page as easily as clicking a link in an e-mail. No more surprising is that vendors of…
