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Oct 21, 2024

DNA records of millions of Americans could be exposed amid 23andMe turmoil

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cybercrime/malcode, genetics

A huge data breach followed by a plummeting valuation has stoked fears of a sale of 23andMe along with all of its customers’ genetic data.

Oct 21, 2024

New Genes Linked to Muscle Aging Discovered

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Source: Nottingham Trent University.

Scientists have identified previously unreported genes which appear to play a key role in the muscle aging process. It is hoped that the findings from a Nottingham Trent University study could be used to help delay the impact of the aging process.

The study, which also involved Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, and Anglia Ruskin University, is reported in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle.

Oct 21, 2024

AI for optical metasurface

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Optica l metasurfaces, planar artificial media capable of controlling light propagation, areioning from laboratory curiosity to commercial applications.


npj Nanophotonics volume 1, Article number: 36 (2024) Cite this article.

Oct 21, 2024

Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI

When I was a kid we had the anarchist cookbook.


But an artist and hacker found a way to trick ChatGPT to ignore its own guidelines and ethical responsibilities to produce instructions for making powerful explosives.

The hacker, who goes by Amadon, called his findings a “social engineering hack to completely break all the guardrails around ChatGPT’s output.” An explosives expert who reviewed the chatbot’s output told TechCrunch that the resulting instructions could be used to make a detonatable product and was too sensitive to be released.

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Oct 21, 2024

Google Research execs reveal how they use AI in their daily lives — and where they think twice about it

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Tech Insider Article and News.

Oct 21, 2024

AI Vulnerability in Hindsight: Investigating NVIDIA Container Toolkit CVE-2024–0132

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, security

Analyze the NVIDIA Container Toolkit CVE-2024–0132 vulnerability and its implications for AI system security with recommended remediation steps.

Oct 21, 2024

Hackers Exploit Roundcube Webmail XSS Vulnerability to Steal Login Credentials

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Unknown hackers exploited a patched Roundcube XSS flaw in phishing attacks to steal sensitive credentials.

Oct 21, 2024

Researchers Discover Severe Security Flaws in Major E2EE Cloud Storage Providers

Posted by in category: security

Critical cryptographic flaws in top E2EE cloud platforms risk user data, allowing file tampering and injection.

Oct 21, 2024

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

Posted by in categories: internet, security

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens.

Since last night, BleepingComputer has received numerous messages from people who received replies to their old Internet Archive removal requests, warning that the organization has been breached as they did not correctly rotate their stolen authentication tokens.

“It’s dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach weeks ago, IA has still not done the due diligence of rotating many of the API keys that were exposed in their gitlab secrets,” reads an email from the threat actor.

Oct 21, 2024

Intel, AMD CPUs on Linux impacted by newly disclosed Spectre bypass

Posted by in category: computing

The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD’s older microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing ‘Spectre’ mitigations.

The vulnerabilities impact Intel’s 12th, 13th, and 14th chip generations for consumers and the 5th and 6th generation of Xeon processors for servers, along with AMD’s Zen 1, Zen 1+, and Zen 2 processors.

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