Loewe opens registrations for ninth edition of its Craft Prize
The Loewe Foundation has officially opened the call for entries for its contemporary arts and…
Advancing digital rights in 2026 will take all of us
Earlier this year, I was asked about the connection between digital rights to human rights. I responded with my own questions. Today, I’m asking you those same questions: When was the last time you learned about a police or military force harming a community? Where did you learn that information? When was the last time…
Maybe a Little Bit More Interesting React2Shell Exploit
I have already talked about various React2Shell exploit attempts we have observed in the last weeks. But new varieties of the exploit are popping up, and the most recent one is using this particular version of the exploit: POST /app HTTP/1.1 Host: 81.187.66.58 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=—-WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW Next-Action: 0 Rsc-Action: 0 Content-Length: 388 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0…
ShadyPanda: The Silent Browser Takeover Threat and How Qualys TruRisk Eliminate Helps You Stop It
Executive Summary ShadyPanda has exploited trusted browser extensions to compromise millions of users, illustrating how legitimate software can unexpectedly become harmful. Qualys TruRisk Eliminate empowers organizations to identify risky behaviors, prioritize real threats, and eliminate malicious components before attackers exploit them. How Browser Extensions Have Become a New Blind Spot Browser extensions are part of everyday…
Tracking and managing assets used in AI development with Amazon SageMaker AI
Building custom foundation models requires coordinating multiple assets across the development lifecycle such as data assets, compute infrastructure, model architecture and frameworks, lineage, and production deployments. Data scientists create and refine training datasets, develop custom evaluators to assess model quality and safety, and iterate through fine-tuning configurations to optimize performance. As these workflows scale across…
A Look at Nursing Facility Characteristics in 2025
The 2025 reconciliation law could have major implications for nearly 15,000 federally certified nursing facilities and the more than 1.2 million people living in them. Nursing facilities provide medical and personal care services for older adults and people with disabilities. In 2023, Medicaid paid for 44% of long-term institutional care costs; 37% of long-term institutional care…
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…
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…
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…
Caesaran sections overtake natural vaginal births for the first time
Getty Images Ruth CleggHealth and wellbeing reporter More babies are being born by caesarean section in England than delivered naturally – without assistance – for the first time. Latest NHS data for 2024-25 shows that 45% of births were by C-section, compared to 44% which were spontaneous, a term used to describe a natural vaginal…
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,…
