McDonald’s AI recruiting platform had a really embarrassing security flaw – and it left millions of users open to attack

McDonald’s recently introduced a new hiring platform called McHire It uses an AI-powered chatbot that collects resumes, CVs, and contact data Researchers managed to easily log into the backend and obtain all of the data stored by the AI A third-party supply chain vulnerability exposed sensitive data on 64 million people who applied to work…

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Your Brain’s Hidden Defenses Against Alzheimer’s

It’s been recognized for some time that Alzheimer’s disease affects brain regions differently and that tau — a protein known to misbehave — plays an important role in the disease. Normally, tau helps stabilize neurons, but in Alzheimer’s disease, it begins to misfold and tangle inside neurons. It spreads across the brain forming toxic clumps…

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Lemurs age without inflammation—and it could change human health forever

What can lemurs tell us about inflammation and aging, aka “inflammaging” in humans? That’s the question Elaine Guevara, a biological anthropologist who studies the evolution of life history and aging in primates, set out to understand. In newly published research on age-related inflammation in ring-tailed and sifaka lemurs, Guevara discovered that perhaps we should rethink…

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