Can AI understand a flower without being able to touch or smell?
What is a flower, if you can’t smell? Clearviewimages RF/Alamy The latest generation of artificial…
ClickFix Attacks Still Using the Finger
Introduction Since as early as November 2025, the finger protocol has been used in ClickFix social engineering attacks. BleepingComputer posted a report of this activity on November 15th, and Didier Stevens posted a short follow-up in an ISC diary the next day. I often investigate two campaigns that employ ClickFix attacks: KongTuke and SmartApeSG. When…
Doctor strike during flu outbreak would be ‘beyond belief’, says Starmer
EPA Sir Keir Starmer has urged resident doctors not to go ahead with “reckless” strikes planned for next week, saying it is “beyond belief” they could take place during a flu outbreak. The prime minister said the NHS is in its “most precarious moment” since the coronavirus pandemic due to soaring flu cases across the…
Why are sperm donors having hundreds of children?
James Gallagher,Health and science correspondentand Catherine Snowdon,Health reporter Getty Some men are having vast numbers of children through sperm donation. This week the BBC reported on a man whose sperm contained a genetic mutation that dramatically raises the risk of cancer for some of his offspring. One of the most striking aspects of the investigation…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
React2shell Module As you may have heard, on December 3, 2025, the React team announced a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in servers using the React Server Components (RSC) Flight protocol. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, carries a CVSS score of 10.0 and is informally known as “React2Shell”. It allows attackers to achieve prototype pollution…
Google Translate gets new Gemini AI translation models
True understanding comes from not just what someone says, but also the nuance of how they say it. Today, Google Translate is getting better at both. We’re introducing state-of-the-art text translation quality in Search and the Translate app, built with Gemini. This means you’ll get much smarter, more natural and accurate text translations wherever you’re…
AMD CEO Lisa Su Isn’t Afraid of the Competition
Michael Calore: Recording works. Lauren Goode: Recording. Yeah. Michael Calore: Yeah. It’s like when people say, let me film that. You’re not actually filming anything. You’re shooting a digital video. Lauren Goode: So then if you have a video podcast, are you shooting the podcast? What do you say? Do you say taping, then? Michael…
Gemini native audio model comes to Search Live
When you go Live with Search, you can have a back-and-forth voice conversation in AI Mode to get real-time help and quickly find relevant sites across the web. And now, thanks to our latest Gemini model for native audio, the responses on Search Live will be more fluid and expressive than ever before. This update…
Building a voice-driven AWS assistant with Amazon Nova Sonic
As cloud infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, the need for intuitive and efficient management interfaces has never been greater. Traditional command-line interfaces (CLI) and web consoles, while powerful, can create barriers to quick decision-making and operational efficiency. What if you could speak to your AWS infrastructure and get immediate, intelligent responses? In this post, we explore…
You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google data center in a town near Santiago, Chile, could require “more than one thousand times the amount of water consumed by the…
Mum’s plea after daughter, 13, died copying social media trend
Sonia Hopkin Tiegan Jarman was found unresponsive in her bedroom on 6 March The mother of a girl who died while copying a “horrible” social media trend is calling for children to be taught about the dangers of solvent abuse. Sonia Hopkin was left “heartbroken” after the death of her 13-year-old daughter, Tiegan Jarman, who…
