Nicotine pouch rise is driven by young men, study finds

Philippa RoxbyHealth reporter Getty Images Young men are behind the growing popularity of nicotine pouches in Great Britain, a study suggests. Around 7.5% of 16 to 24-year-old-men are using the small sachets that fit under the top lip, compared with 1.9% use among young women and 1% among adults overall. Most pouch users – estimated…

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Introducing Gemini 3 Flash: Benchmarks, global availability

Today, we’re expanding the Gemini 3 model family with the release of Gemini 3 Flash, which offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost. With this release, we’re making Gemini 3’s next-generation intelligence accessible to everyone across Google products. Last month, we kicked off Gemini 3 with Gemini 3 Pro and…

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Starmer calls doctors’ strike ‘dangerous’ as five-day walkout begins

Nick Triggle,Health correspondent, Jim Reed,Health reporterand Philippa Roxby,Health reporter Getty Images Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the latest five-day strike by doctors in England is “dangerous and utterly irresponsible” and warned them not to abandon patients. The walkout by resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, began at 07:00 on Wednesday. The British…

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GachiLoader: Defeating Node.js Malware with API Tracing GachiLoader: Defeating Node.js Malware

Research by: Sven Rath (@eversinc33), Jaromír Hořejší (@JaromirHorejsi) Key Points The YouTube Ghost Network is a malware distribution network that uses compromised accounts to promote malicious videos and spread malware, such as infostealers. One of the observed campaigns uses a new, heavily obfuscated loader malware written in Node.js, which we call GachiLoader. To make it easier to analyze obfuscated Node.js malware,…

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People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’

Petter Ruddwall knows the idea of AIs becoming sentient and seeking to get high with code-based “drugs” seems “stupid.” But the Swedish creative director couldn’t get it out of his head. So he scraped trip reports and psychological research on the effects of various psychoactive substances, wrote a batch of codes modules to hijack chatbot…

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Transparency, Openness, and Our 2023-2024 Financials

Every year, as required by U.S. federal law for 501(c)(3) nonprofits, the Tor Project completes a Form 990, and as required by contractual obligations and state regulations, an independent audit of our financial statements. After completing standard audits for 2023-2024,* we added our federal tax filings (Form 990) and audited financial statements to our website….

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