Tech firms look for natural food colours
Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Fermentalg There are hundreds of thousands of microalgae species French firm…
Mechanistic interpretability: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
Hundreds of millions of people now use chatbots every day. And yet the large language models that drive them are so complicated that nobody really understands what they are, how they work, or exactly what they can and can’t do—not even the people who build them. Weird, right? It’s also a problem. Without a clear…
AI companions: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
Chatbots are skilled at crafting sophisticated dialogue and mimicking empathetic behavior. They never get tired of chatting. It’s no wonder, then, that so many people now use them for companionship—forging friendships or even romantic relationships. According to a study from the nonprofit Common Sense Media, 72% of US teenagers have used AI for companionship. Although…
Generative coding: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
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….
Revolutionary eye injection saved my sight, says first-ever patient
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…
12th January – Threat Intelligence Report
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…
Why the NHS still wastes billions on patients who shouldn’t be in hospital
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…
ISC Stormcast For Monday, January 12th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9762
ISC Stormcast For Monday, January 12th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9762, (Mon, Jan 12th) Source link
YARA-X 1.11.0 Release: Hash Function Warnings
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…
The Berkshire mum looking to encourage others into rugby
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 Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris
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…
