New technique hides encryption keys under user data using standard 3D NAND flash memory
Flash memory now doubles as secure key storage using conceal-and-reveal method Encryption keys hidden in…
Covid was like a daily terror attack, doctor tells inquiry
Jim ReedHealth reporter, BBC News Prof Kevin Fong said he undertook an informal visit to one of the “hardest hit” intensive care units in the country Treating patients during the pandemic was like responding to a daily terror attack, the Covid inquiry has heard. Giving testimony, Professor Kevin Fong, spoke of staff he met during…
Swatch’s New OpenAI-Powered Tool Lets You Design Your Own Watch
And, just as with Swatch x You, it’s possible to further customize the watch by choosing indexes or selecting the color of its mechanism. To save on data center power drains and rampant creativity run amuck, you’re only allowed three prompts per day on AI‑DADA, something that Swatch is spinning as a “creative challenge that…
Massive hidden structures deep inside Earth may explain how life began
For many years, researchers have puzzled over two enormous and unusual features hidden deep inside Earth. Their size, shape and behavior are so extreme that traditional ideas about how the planet formed and evolved have struggled to explain them. A recent study in Nature Geoscience, led by Rutgers geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki with a team of…
States’ Management of Medicaid Home Care Spending Ahead of H.R. 1 Effects
Over one-third of Medicaid spending pays for long-term care, with most of the spending paying for home care—also known as “home- and community-based services” or HCBS. Medicaid pays for almost 70% of all home care spending in the U.S., nearly all of which is provided through optional services. Among those optional services, states rely heavily…
Oracle Identity Manager Exploit Observation from September (CVE-2025-61757)
Searchlight Cyber today released a blog detailing CVE-2025-61757, a vulnerability they reported to Oracle. Oracle released a patch for the vulnerability as part of its October Critical Patch Update, which was released on October 21st. Based on Searchlight Cyber’s blog, the issue is pretty trivial to exploit: All URLs that end in “.wadl” are exempt…
BBC Inside Science – What’s in the wording of the COP 30 negotiations?
Available for 34 days COP 30 delegates from around the globe are about to depart the Amazon city of Belem in Brazil. But not before some very important documents are drawn up. Camilla Born, former advisor to Cop 26 president Alok Sharma speaks to Tom Whipple about the scientific significance of the language negotiators choose…
Lockdown could have been avoided and other key findings
Nick Triggle, Jim Reed, Dom Hughes and Michelle RobertsBBC News Getty Images The long-awaited independent report into how well or badly the government handled the Covid pandemic has been published. Chairwoman of the inquiry, former judge Baroness Hallett, said the UK’s response could be summarised as “too little, too late”. The report looks at whether…
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
Alison Holt,Social affairs editor, Ewan Somerville and Kate Whannel,Political reporter Getty Images Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance or behaviour, new guidance seen by the BBC has said. A code of practice, produced by the equalities watchdog and awaiting ministerial approval, says it…
How Care Access achieved 86% data processing cost reductions and 66% faster data processing with Amazon Bedrock prompt caching
This post is co-written with Michelle Tat, Christopher Penrose, Rasmus Buchmann, and Daniel Hansen from Care Access. Organizations operating in the healthcare industry face a critical challenge as they process large volumes of medical records and face a critical challenge: how to efficiently analyze thousands of medical records daily while maintaining strict security and compliance…
Holiday shoppers boost spending as consumer resilience persists
By Bloomberg Published November 20, 2025 Americans are planning to spend more this holiday season than last year, according to credit reporting firm TransUnion. A shopper carries shopping bags as she walks on a street in Paris, France, June 10, 2022 – Reuters In a sign of consumer resilience, roughly 57% of US shoppers surveyed…
