Major attack on Quest Diagnostics used by 85m Americans exposes private patient records
One of the largest lab testing companies in the US has been breached by hackers, and the damage could affect millions of patients.
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Trains cancelled and roads warnings as Scotland prepares for Storm Boelo
Heavy rain and strong winds are expected during the second named storm to hit in two days, with gusts of up to 80mph forecast.
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BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot on Patched Windows Systems Missing Revocations
Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackX. The activity, which singled out diplomatic entities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in early 2026, is suspected to be orchestrated by a China-linked state-sponsored hacking group known as APT41, Kaspersky said in a technical report
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Ruby Fixes Three Regex Engine Bugs Responsible for Four Critical GitLab RCE Flaws
Ruby has released versions 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13 to fix three bugs in Onigmo, the regular expression engine built into the language. The bugs lie behind four critical security flaws that GitLab patched over the past month. GitLab found that a specially crafted pattern could corrupt memory while Ruby compiles it, potentially leading to code execution on its own servers. Ruby says any
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Exposed Infrastructure Reveals How Ransomware Affiliates Used AI Agents to Execute Intrusions
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an "Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework" referred to as Phantom. The threat actor is assessed to be Russian-speaking and functions both as an intrusion and data-extortion operator, as well as an
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Why Drug Companies Are Rushing to Market Ketamine Medicines
Spurred on by the Trump administration’s embrace of psychedelic medicine, researchers are experimenting with new — and not so new — forms of the anesthetic.
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I'm a Christian leader who attended a secret meeting with Anthropic. The crisis of faith will be so earth-shattering that we prayed… here's my warning to anyone using AI
Behind closed doors at Anthropic, religious thinkers prayed as they confronted the moral dangers of machines growing ever more powerful.
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Melanoma Vaccine Ushers in New Hope for Cancer Patients
Beyond melanoma, scientists are studying cancer vaccines for glioblastoma, pancreatic cancer and more.
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Scientists put a dying coral next to a healthy one — and watched it heal before their eyes
Scientists at Stanford University in California stumbled on a promising discovery when two coral fragments in the lab — one bleached and one healthy — tipped over in a tank and touched.
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What’s the Deal With Billy Evans? A Spoiler-Filled Guide to ‘You Can See Everything’
“You shouldn’t overbeat scrambled eggs.”
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Are Fewer Teens Identifying as Gay or Bisexual? It’s Complicated.
New data have prompted questions about changes in teens’ sexual orientations. But researchers disagree on how much the numbers can really tell us.
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Chimps Steal Less Often From Their Friends, Even When Offered Pineapple
The discovery may hint at the roots of human norms around fairness and friendship.
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