MND took our son Kyle aged 14

Leigh Boobyer,BBC Walesand John Maguire,Swansea Family handout Kyle Sieniawski, 14, is believed to be the youngest person in the UK to have died with motor neurone disease The family of a teenage boy who died after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) has warned the rare, degenerative condition can hit “anybody at any age,…

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AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements

“One conversation with an LLM has a pretty meaningful effect on salient election choices,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at Cornell University who worked on the Nature study. LLMs can persuade people more effectively than political advertisements because they generate much more information in real time and strategically deploy it in conversations, he says.  For…

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Active Exploitation of 7-Zip RCE Vulnerability Shows Why Manual Patching is No Longer an Option

A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in 7-Zip (CVE-2025-11001) is now being actively exploited. The issue stems from improper handling of symbolic links within crafted ZIP files. When a malicious archive is extracted, 7-Zip may write files outside the intended directory, allowing an attacker to overwrite system files or execute arbitrary code with the…

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