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Oct 8, 2024

Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks Costing Businesses Up to $186 Billion Annually

Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, economics, finance, robotics/AI

Organizations are losing between $94 — $186 billion annually to vulnerable or insecure APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and automated abuse by bots. That’s according to The Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks report from Imperva, a Thales company. The report highlights that these security threats account for up to 11.8% of global cyber events and losses, emphasizing the escalating risks they pose to businesses worldwide.

Drawing on a comprehensive study conducted by the Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Intelligence Center, the report analyzes over 161,000 unique cybersecurity incidents. The findings demonstrate a concerning trend: the threats posed by vulnerable or insecure APIs and automated abuse by bots are increasingly interconnected and prevalent. Imperva warns that failing to address security risks associated with these threats could lead to substantial financial and reputational damage.

Oct 8, 2024

Google Blocks Unsafe Android App Sideloading in India for Improved Fraud Protection

Posted by in category: security

Google’s new security pilot in India automatically blocks sideloading of risky Android apps, protecting users from malicious installs.

Oct 8, 2024

FDA-Approved Antidepressant Treats Incurable Brain Cancer in Preclinical Trial

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

A widely available and inexpensive antidepressant drug may soon save lives from an altogether different kind of disease.

The growth of the most aggressive and deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, was effectively suppressed in both ex vivo human tissue samples and in living mice by an FDA approved serotonin modulator currently used to treat major depression.

It’s not a cure, but it may offer some relief and constitute an effective part of a treatment regime for glioblastoma patients. Human clinical trials are the next step; patients are cautioned against self-medicating at this stage.

Oct 8, 2024

Plant-based diets and urological health

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

Plant-based diets have grown in popularity owing to multiple health and environmental benefits.


Here, the authors describe the evidence concerning plant-based dietary patterns and omnivorous diets with reduced consumption of animal-based food and increased consumption of plant-based foods and their associations with the most common urological cancers and benign urological conditions.

Oct 7, 2024

Inside the Zoo: A Rare and Life-Preserving Cheetah Surgery

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

National Zoo And Conservation Biology Institute

With the help of 3D modeling technology, a team of veterinary experts successfully carried out a rare spinal surgery on an 11-month-old cheetah cub at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in August.

Oct 7, 2024

New algorithm could reduce energy requirements of AI systems by up to 95 percent

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Researchers have developed an algorithm that could dramatically reduce the energy consumption of artificial intelligence systems.

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Scientists at BitEnergy AI created a method called “Linear-complexity multiplication” (L-Mul) that replaces complex floating-point multiplications in AI models with simpler integer additions.

Oct 7, 2024

Can AI have common sense? Finding out will be key to achieving machine intelligence

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The advent of LLMs has reopened a debate about the limits of machine intelligence — and requires new benchmarks of what reasoning consists of.

One milestone along that journey is the demonstration of machine common sense.

Oct 7, 2024

Elk Fire in Wyoming nears 73,000 acres burned, sees 10% containment

Posted by in category: futurism

UPDATE: October 7 at 10:41 a.m.

The acreage burned remains the same, 72,998, Monday morning. The change comes in containment: Big Horn National Forest said the fire is 10% contained and 680 people are attacking the blaze.

Oct 7, 2024

Widespread Water Ice Deposits Discovered on the Moon

Posted by in categories: energy, space

Scientists have discovered far more water ice deposits near the Moon’s south pole than previously hypothesized, which could help astronauts on future crewed missions to the lunar surface.


How much water ice could be present within the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) near the Moon’s south pole? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how water ice deposits could exist hundreds of miles beyond the PSRs located near the south pole, as opposed to close proximity to the south pole as previous studies have hypothesized. This study holds the potential to enable future crewed missions to locate water ice deposits, which could assist in water usage, oxygen generation from electrolysis, fuel, and energy.

For the study, the researchers used NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to obtain data on hydrogen concentration within several PSR craters near the lunar south pole, along with potential sources of the hydrogen concentrations. The reason PSRs are targets for water ice is due to their extreme depths where sunlight doesn’t reach, resulting in temperatures well below-freezing and the accumulation of water ice over millions, if not billions, of years. The team found that hydrogen concentrations existed in craters several hundred miles from the direct south pole and with temperatures below 75 Kelvin (−198.15 degrees Celsius/-324.67 degrees Fahrenheit). Additionally, the team also concluded that the likely sources of the hydrogen concentrations were from a variety of sources, including solar radiation, comets, and meteorites.

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Oct 7, 2024

Human Lifespan May Have a Hard Ceiling, Research Suggests

Posted by in category: life extension

Our longevity may actually turn out to have a hard limit. In a new study this week, scientists show that the long rise in our collective life expectancy seen during the 20th century has started to slow down as of late. The findings suggest that focusing on simply expanding our lifespan might be short-sighted, the researchers say.

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