Scotland’s resident doctors are to go on strike in a dispute over pay – the first time a national walkout has been staged by NHS workers. Their union BMA Scotland had accused the government of reneging on a commitment to restore pay to 2008 levels. With 92% voting in favour, strike dates have been set…
When OpenAI declared a “code red” this month to refocus its teams on competing with Google, I couldn’t help but think back to December three years ago when the companies’ roles were reversed. Google was the one blasting the sirens to catch up to OpenAI. What followed the next month, in January 2023, were the…
Health care affordability has been a longstanding concern in the U.S., including among older adults, many of whom have relatively low incomes and modest assets to help cover the cost of premiums and medical bills. Medicare offers important financial protection by providing health insurance coverage to 69 million people in the U.S., including adults age…
Xavier’s diary entry “Abusing DLLs EntryPoint for the Fun” inspired me to do some tests with TLS Callbacks and DLLs. TLS stands for Thread Local Storage. TLS Callbacks are an execution mechanism in Windows PE files that lets code run automatically when a process or thread starts, before the program’s normal entry point is reached. I’ve…
Give yourself a nice gift this holiday season. Download a free Chrome extension that replaces those incessant LinkedIn posts about artificial intelligence with facts about a very different kind of AI: Allen Iverson. Yes, the answer to your generative AI woes is “The Answer,” the crossover king, the four-time NBA scoring champ. One of the…
ISC Stormcast For Friday, December 19th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9746, (Fri, Dec 19th) Source link
China is not only the world’s largest EV market; it has also become the main global manufacturing hub for EVs and the batteries that power them. In 2024, the country accounted for more than 70% of global electric-car production and more than half of global EV sales, and firms like CATL and BYD together control…
For the past three years, the Tor Project has been working to improve the tools, resources, and protocols used to monitor the health of the Tor network. This work aims to strengthen the Tor network’s resilience and resist relay attacks. As part of this effort, in October 2025, 7aSecurity conducted a code audit of those…
Building natural voice conversations with AI agents requires complex infrastructure and lots of code from engineering teams. Text-based agent interactions follow a turn-based pattern: a user sends a complete request, waits for the agent to process it, and receives a full response before continuing. Bi-directional streaming removes this constraint by establishing a persistent connection that…
The Chinese-language artificial intelligence app Haotian is so effective that it’s made millions of dollars selling its face-swapping technology on Telegram. The service integrates easily with messaging platforms like WhatsApp and WeChat and claims that users can tweak up to 50 settings—including the ability to adjust things like cheekbone size and eye position—to help mimic…
