Model freed after nearly five years in prison in Yemen
By AFP Published October 27, 2025 Over the weekend, Yemen’s Houthi rebels released a young…
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…
How to keep babies warm in cold weather and other winter tips
Getty Images Baby outside in cold weather Winter often brings the challenge of dealing with icy weather and snow. Here are some tips for coping with low temperatures. How can I keep my baby warm? Babies and young children under five are more at risk in cold weather. While outside, the NHS advises that babies…
Why some people really struggle to lose weight more than others
Nick TriggleHealth correspondent BBC Listen to this piece “Fat people just need more self-control.” “It’s about personal responsibility.” “It’s simple, just eat less.” These were some of the 1,946 comments, posted by readers, beneath an article I wrote last year about weight-loss injections. The idea that obesity is simply a matter of willpower is held…
A phishing campaign with QR codes rendered using an HTML table
Malicious use of QR codes has long been ubiquitous, both in the real world as well as in electronic communication. This is hardly surprising given that a scan of a QR code can lead one to a phishing page as easily as clicking a link in an e-mail. No more surprising is that vendors of…
Agent Grant: Agentic AI for Identity Attack Surface Management
Executive Summary Identity is now the #1 attack surface. Agent Grant in Qualys ETM Identity uses agentic AI to measure and reduce identity risk across AD, Entra, Okta & other cloud IdPs/IDaaS. It operationalizes identity risk by turning messy Active Directory & identity-risk signals into validated, prioritized, and closed-loop actions with proof of risk removed….
