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The chilling discovery that nerve cells help cancers grow and spread
The video I am watching feels like a scene from a horror movie. At the centre of the screen...
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Can Ultrasound Replace Pills for Inflammation and Diabetes?
Inflammation: It’s the body’s natural response to injury and infection, but medical science now recognizes it as a double-edged sword. When inflammation becomes chronic, it can contribute to a host of serious health problems, including arthritis, heart disease, and...
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The Medical Revolutions That Prevented Millions of Cancer Deaths – Slashdot
Vox publishes a story about "the quiet revolutions that have prevented millions of cancer deaths...."The age-adjusted death rate in the US for cancer has declined by about a third since 1991, meaning people of a given age have...
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Axiom Space prepares for its fourth private space mission | TechCrunch
Axiom Space plans to launch its fourth mission on Tuesday, June 10 — a mission that CEO Tejpaul Bhatia described as “a little bit of a victory lap.”In addition to being the private space company’s fourth mission to the...
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Social media time limits for children considered by government
The government is considering introducing tougher online safety measures to limit the amount of time children can spend on social media, the BBC understands.Proposals include a two-hour cap on the use of individual social media apps and a 22:00...
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Russian Spies Are Analyzing Data From China’s WeChat App – Slashdot
An anonymous reader shared this report from The New York Times:Russian counterintelligence agents are analyzing data from the popular Chinese messaging and social media app WeChat to monitor people who might be in contact with Chinese spies, according...
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Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained access to the team building the Macintosh computer, scheduled to launch early the next year. Everyone kept telling me,...
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Lawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warns | TechCrunch
The High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in their work.In a ruling tying together two recent cases, Judge Victoria Sharp wrote that generative AI tools...
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Trump administration takes aim at Biden and Obama cybersecurity rules | TechCrunch
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that revises and rolls back cybersecurity policies set in place by his Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.In a White House fact sheet, the administration claims that Biden’s Executive Order...
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Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight – Slashdot
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Cybercriminals have been increasingly turning to "residential proxy" services over the past two to three years to disguise malicious web traffic as everyday online activity, according to research presented at the Sleuthcon cybercrime conference. The shift represents a...
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Iran launches drones at Israel as Israel attacks Iranian nuclear sites and top commanders, IDF says
Tehran launched more than 100 drones at Israel on Friday morning, not long after Israel...