Generative AI’s ability to write software code has quickly created one of the technology’s first real use cases for business. Professional software engineers and novices alike are using AI coding assistants to produce, test, edit, and debug code, reducing the amount of time it takes to complete the often tedious steps required to finish projects….
Michelle Roberts and Sophie HutchinsonBBC News BBC News Nicki says the results have been life-changing Doctors say they have achieved the previously impossible – restoring sight and preventing blindness in people with a rare but dangerous eye conditon called hypotony. Moorfields hospital in London is the world’s first dedicated clinic for the disorder and seven…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 12th January, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Manage My Health, New Zealand’s largest patient portal, has acknowledged a cyberattack occurred on December 2025, that potentially exposed data of nearly 110K users. An alleged attacker, dubbed Kazu, claimed responsibility and…
Nick TriggleHealth correspondent BBC As ambulances queued in front of Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading last week, corridors full of patients were waiting for a bed on a ward. Emergency department consultant Omar Nafousi was at his wit’s end. “We’ve no space,” he told the BBC last week. “This is not what I signed up…
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YARA-X’s 1.11.0 release brings a new feature: hash function warnings. When you write a YARA rule to match a cryptographic hash (either the full file content or a part of it), what’s actually going on are string comparisons: Function hash.sha256 returns a string (the hexadecimal SHA256 hash it calculated) and that is compared to a…
Nathan BriantSouth of England Annette Bevan Annette Bevan wants other mums to feel that they can play rugby after having a child The co-founder of a rugby club for women who have had children said the sport is ideal for new mums who want to stay active. Annette Bevan, a mum-of-two who currently plays for…
Grok users aren’t just commanding the AI chatbot to “undress” pictures of women and girls into bikinis and transparent underwear. Among the vast and growing library of nonconsensual sexualized edits that Grok has generated on request over the past week, many perpetrators have asked xAI’s bot to put on or take off a hijab, a…
OpenAI is asking third-party contractors to upload real assignments and tasks from their current or previous workplaces so that it can use the data to evaluate the performance of its next-generation AI models, according to records from OpenAI and the training data company Handshake AI obtained by WIRED. The project appears to be part of…
Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings processes text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single model architecture. Available through Amazon Bedrock, the model converts different input modalities into numerical embeddings within the same vector space, supporting direct similarity calculations regardless of content type. We developed this unified model to reduce the need for separate embedding models,…
