A.I. Music Fraudster Who Drew Millions in Royalties Is Sentenced to 18 Months
Prosecutors say Michael Smith flooded music-streaming platforms with bots that repeatedly streamed his A.I.-generated music, earning him as much as $8 million.
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Oct 8, 2026
Vaccine safety experts say more research into the side effects would be welcome yet question whether the health secretary’s effort will be grounded in science.
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Russian lab worker's plague-linked death raises questions as Soviet files detail bioweapons cover-up
Hidden files have exposed how the Soviet Union spent decades covering up its building building and stockpiling of biological weapons, as experts raise concerns after Russia lab plague death.
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Attackers Hijack .gh, .sl, and .as Registries to Obtain Certificates for Google Domains
Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, Google said on October 6. Google's own systems were not breached, but any domain ending in .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone) or .as (American Samoa) was put at risk. With such a certificate, an attacker could pose as the real site over an encrypted
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Russia Says It Found No ‘Emergency’ in Plague Lab
New information around the death of a lab worker, including a statement that she had been vaccinated against the plague, came as U.S. officials demanded more data.
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Eight Malicious npm Packages Downloaded 40,767 Times Deliver Overlord RAT and Stealer
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a long-running npm supply chain malware campaign that pushes information stealers and remote access trojans (RAT) to compromised hosts. The campaign has been codenamed MALFEX by CloudSEK and Checkmarx. The activity is assessed to be the work of a lone threat actor who appears to have published 12 packages since August 2023, eight of which have
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An A.I. Songwriting Experiment: Humans Against the Machine
Five humans convened for a weekend to create new music from scratch. Could they do better than A.I.? Could you even tell the difference?
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Millions told to 'act now' as hurricane warnings are issued along US coast ahead of storm Isaias's Category 2 landfall
Hurricane warnings have now been issued for several US states. Storm Isaias is expected to make landfall as a Category 2 hurricane in just a few days.
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Trump Administration Delays Threaten Funding for HIV Research
The networks also develop treatments and preventions for other infectious diseases and were instrumental in testing the Covid vaccine.
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SonicWall Patches CVSS 10.0 Pre-Authentication SSRF Flaw in SMA1000 Appliances
SonicWall has released hotfixes for four flaws in its SMA1000 appliances, the gateways that give remote workers access to a company's network and applications. The most serious could allow an attacker without a login to send requests through the appliance and reach internal functions. SonicWall rates it 10.0 on the CVSS scale and says it has no evidence that any of the four flaws is being
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Blue Planet III ventures into darkest depths of ocean
Sir David says the series uncovers marine life that is "even more precious than we ever realised".
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Rare sea cucumber nursery near Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, could lead to commercial fishery
The rare discovery of a nursery with billions of baby sea cucumbers in the ocean water near Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, is helping researchers better understand the species – and could some day generate income for the Arctic hamlet.
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Tropical Storm Isaias forecast to become first Atlantic hurricane of 2026
El Niño has led to an eerily quiet season so far but the first Atlantic hurricane of the year is now set to impact the southern USA.
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