Permira in talks with China’s HongShan on $3 billion Golden Goose sale, sources say
By Reuters Published November 12, 2025 Private equity firm Permira is in advanced talks with…
Why my period made my gambling addiction worse
BBC Abbie Harvey says her urge to gamble was worse during parts of her menstrual cycle Abbie Harvey’s gambling addiction was so severe that she could not drive for 20 minutes without pulling over to bet – and felt the urge became worse just before and during her period. “To get over being emotional, I…
Key Facts on Abortion in the United States
The most recent data estimates that more than one million abortions (1,142,970) occurred in the U.S. in 2024 and there were more than half a million abortions (591,770) in the first six months of 2025. Three different organizations currently track abortion volume at the state and the federal levels: the federal Centers for Disease Control…
Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What’s on X
This story contains descriptions of explicit sexual content and sexual violence. Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has drawn outrage and calls for investigation after being used to flood X with “undressed” images of women and sexualized images of what appear to be minors. However, that’s not the only way people have been using the AI to…
Abortion Trends Before and After Dobbs
Note: This brief was updated on January 7, 2026 to incorporate new data on abortion statistics. In the three years since the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, the total number of abortions nationally has slightly increased. The most recent data from the Society for Family Planning’s #WeCount project show that the average…
AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions
Even the smartest artificial intelligence models are essentially copycats. They learn either by consuming examples of human work or by trying to solve problems that have been set for them by human instructors. But perhaps AI can, in fact, learn in a more human way—by figuring out interesting questions to ask itself and attempting to…
Key Takeaways and Top Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026
As the threat landscape keeps shifting, security teams are being asked to do more than react. They are expected to look ahead, connect the dots, and make decisions in environments that change faster every year. That challenge was at the heart of Rapid7’s 2026 Security Predictions webinar, where our experts reflected on what the past…
Cold weather: What does an unheated room do to your body?
The measurements are done. The scientists know how my body performs in a pleasant 21C. So the fans kick in and a cool breeze gradually lowers the temperature in the chamber. “Your brain is tasting your blood as we speak and it’s tasting the temperature and the brain is now sending signals to the rest…
LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?
When a model is trained, each word in its vocabulary is assigned a numerical value that captures the meaning of that word in relation to all the other words, based on how the word appears in countless examples across the model’s training data. Each word gets replaced by a kind of code? Yeah. But there’s…
Can you health hack your immune system?
James GallagherInside Health presenter, BBC Radio 4 Emma Lynch/BBC Braving the 3.9C water on a winter morning at the west reservoir in London It is a cold morning in the depths of winter. And I feel like I’ve left my sanity as well as my warm clothes in the changing room as I stride out…
Inside GoBruteforcer: AI-Generated Server Defaults, Weak Passwords, and Crypto-Focused Campaigns
Key takeaways GoBruteforcer (also called GoBrut) is a modular botnet, written in Go, that brute-forces user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers. The botnet spreads through a chain of web shell, downloader, IRC bot, and bruteforcer modules. The current wave of campaigns is driven by two factors: the…
