Leigh Boobyer,BBC Walesand John Maguire,Swansea Family handout Kyle Sieniawski, 14, is believed to be the youngest person in the UK to have died with motor neurone disease The family of a teenage boy who died after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) has warned the rare, degenerative condition can hit “anybody at any age,…
“One conversation with an LLM has a pretty meaningful effect on salient election choices,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at Cornell University who worked on the Nature study. LLMs can persuade people more effectively than political advertisements because they generate much more information in real time and strategically deploy it in conversations, he says. For…
Earlier this year, WIRED said that AMD CEO Lisa Su was “out for Nvidia’s blood.” The American chipmaker is still small compared to the juggernaut that is Nvidia—their market caps are $353 billion and $4.4 trillion, respectively—but Su’s company is gaining steam. Today, when Su took the stage at WIRED’s Big Interview conference in San…
Go high or go wide? DeepSeek and ByteDance, the two leaders of China’s AI industry, are adopting vastly different strategies. On Monday, DeepSeek released DeepSeek V3.2, another open-weight model that anyone can tinker with. The startup says it performs on par with the latest models from OpenAI and Google, and it even beats them on…
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Getty Images The NHS must take diseases like pneumonia and flu in older people much more seriously, England’s chief medical officer has warned. Sir Chris Whitty said some doctors do not appreciate that an infection can significantly increase the risk of a stroke or heart attack. His comments come as the number of flu patients…
Overview On December 3, 2025, Meta disclosed a new vulnerability, CVE-2025-55182, which has since been dubbed React2Shell. A second CVE identifier, CVE-2025-66478, was assigned and published to track the vulnerability in the context of Next.js. However this second CVE has since been rejected as a duplicate of CVE-2025-55182, as the root cause in all cases…
A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in 7-Zip (CVE-2025-11001) is now being actively exploited. The issue stems from improper handling of symbolic links within crafted ZIP files. When a malicious archive is extracted, 7-Zip may write files outside the intended directory, allowing an attacker to overwrite system files or execute arbitrary code with the…
That’s getting more challenging, says Nithin Ramachandran, who is global vice president for data and AI at industrial and consumer products manufacturer 3M. “Our experience with generative AI has shown that we need to be looking at security differently than before,” he says. “With every tool we deploy, we look not just at its functionality but…
In cybersecurity today, regulation is everywhere, but resilience isn’t keeping pace. In this episode of Experts on Experts: Commanding Perspectives, Craig Adams chats with Sabeen Malik, VP of Public Policy & Government Affairs at Rapid7, about what’s broken (and what’s promising) in today’s regulatory landscape. Sabeen pulls from her experience across diplomacy, operations, and government…
