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Nicotine pouch rise is driven by young men, study finds

Author23 minutes ago05 mins

Philippa RoxbyHealth reporter Getty Images Young men are behind the growing popularity of nicotine pouches in Great Britain, a study suggests. Around 7.5% of 16 to 24-year-old-men are using the small sachets that fit under the top lip, compared with 1.9% use among young women and 1% among adults overall. Most pouch users – estimated…

Introducing Gemini 3 Flash: Benchmarks, global availability

Author46 minutes ago02 mins

Today, we’re expanding the Gemini 3 model family with the release of Gemini 3 Flash, which offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost. With this release, we’re making Gemini 3’s next-generation intelligence accessible to everyone across Google products. Last month, we kicked off Gemini 3 with Gemini 3 Pro and…

Starmer calls doctors’ strike ‘dangerous’ as five-day walkout begins

Author1 hour ago012 mins

Nick Triggle,Health correspondent, Jim Reed,Health reporterand Philippa Roxby,Health reporter Getty Images Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the latest five-day strike by doctors in England is “dangerous and utterly irresponsible” and warned them not to abandon patients. The walkout by resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, began at 07:00 on Wednesday. The British…

Caesaran sections overtake natural vaginal births for the first time

Author1 hour ago05 mins

Getty Images Ruth CleggHealth and wellbeing reporter More babies are being born by caesarean section in England than delivered naturally – without assistance – for the first time. Latest NHS data for 2024-25 shows that 45% of births were by C-section, compared to 44% which were spontaneous, a term used to describe a natural vaginal…

GachiLoader: Defeating Node.js Malware with API Tracing GachiLoader: Defeating Node.js Malware

Author2 hours ago079 mins

Research by: Sven Rath (@eversinc33), Jaromír Hořejší (@JaromirHorejsi) Key Points The YouTube Ghost Network is a malware distribution network that uses compromised accounts to promote malicious videos and spread malware, such as infostealers. One of the observed campaigns uses a new, heavily obfuscated loader malware written in Node.js, which we call GachiLoader. To make it easier to analyze obfuscated Node.js malware,…

Dynamic EASM Discovery: Continuous Discovery for a Changing Attack Surface

Author3 hours ago08 mins

Staying ahead of what’s exposed, automatically. The modern enterprise doesn’t stand still. New domains are registered, acquisitions bring inherited infrastructure, cloud workloads spin up and down daily, and somewhere in the middle of it all, your visible footprint on the internet external attack surface keeps expanding. For CISOs, this constant motion makes one CTEM step…

Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers

Author3 hours ago04 mins

Fouch knew automated sensors could help by, for example, identifying the environmental culprits of the hole-punching issues, but with so many potential options to try he didn’t know where to start. “The worst thing you can do, in a smaller business especially, is muddle through pilot purgatory, hoping to find a viable product,” he says….

People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’

Author4 hours ago06 mins

Petter Ruddwall knows the idea of AIs becoming sentient and seeking to get high with code-based “drugs” seems “stupid.” But the Swedish creative director couldn’t get it out of his head. So he scraped trip reports and psychological research on the effects of various psychoactive substances, wrote a batch of codes modules to hijack chatbot…

Transparency, Openness, and Our 2023-2024 Financials

Author15 hours ago020 mins

Every year, as required by U.S. federal law for 501(c)(3) nonprofits, the Tor Project completes a Form 990, and as required by contractual obligations and state regulations, an independent audit of our financial statements. After completing standard audits for 2023-2024,* we added our federal tax filings (Form 990) and audited financial statements to our website….