Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets
AMI MegaRAC used in servers from AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, Supermicro, and Qualcomm.
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NASA tested a new SLS booster that may never fly, and the end of it blew off
NASA didn't want to say much about one of the tests, and the other one lost its nozzle.
Changing one gene can restore some tissue regeneration to mice
Signaling from retinoic acid appears to be key to getting mice to regrow ear damage.
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel ditches some flu shots based on anti-vaccine junk data
Flu shots with thimerosal abandoned, despite decades of data showing they're safe.
Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books
Meta may defeat authors’ torrenting claim due to lack of evidence.
Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age
AI chatbot codes browser-based apps from plain English with classic web vibes.
VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom
"Our management thought it was a bluff..."
Rust 1.88.0 released
Version
1.88.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the
ability to chain let expressions, "naked" functions that have no
compiler-generated prologue or epilogue, automatic garbage collection in
cargo, a set of stabilized APIs, and more.
‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals
Subtle DNA changes in trees demonstrate Charles Darwin’s natural selection – although human help may be needed
New generations of wild ash trees are rapidly evolving resistance to the fungus devastating their numbers, scientists have discovered.
The discovery gives hope, the researchers said, and shows that allowing the natural regeneration of woodlands is vital to enabling this evolution to take place. However, it remains too early to say if the development of resistance in the ash trees can outpace the destruction being caused by the ash dieback fungus.
Continue reading...Book authors made the wrong arguments in Meta AI training case, judge says
Judges clash over "schoolchildren" analogy in key AI training rulings.