Doctors Dismissed Her Encephalitis Symptoms as a UTI—It Nearly Cost Her Life

You may not have heard of Helen Edwards yet, but the 74-year-old grandmother could save your life. Her story went viral after ...
Tech XploreOpinion

From floppy disks to Claude Mythos, how ransomware grew into a multibillion‑dollar industry

When evolutionary biologist Joseph Popp coded the first documented piece of ransomware in 1989, he had little idea it would ...

NGate Android malware uses HandyPay NFC app to steal card data

A new variant of the NGate malware that steals NFC payment data is targeting Android users by hiding in a trojanized version ...

Security Bite: ClickFix malware authors already bypassing Apple’s new Terminal paste warning

Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready ...
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Volunteers make over 800 Easter baskets to gift to those in need

An Attleboro man was found guilty of three counts of child pornography possession and one count of child pornography distribution. One person injured in Cranston rollover One person is injured after a ...
Ars Technica

You’re likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you’ve never heard of

With everything taking place in the world now, this is such great news for those of us contemplating suicide. Thanks. Click to expand... As the other commentator mentioned, there are resources ...
Medical Xpress

Scientists create cancer-fighting immune cells right in the body

For years, one of the most powerful weapons against certain blood cancers, called CAR-T cell therapy, has required an elaborate process: Doctors extract a patient's immune cells, ship them to a ...
CNN

Measles is not the only disease on the rise. Mumps also may be making a comeback

Measles is not the only vaccine-preventable disease making headlines. Health officials in Maryland have issued an alert after confirming an uptick in mumps cases — 26 reported so far this year as of ...
Science Daily

Giant virus discovery could rewrite the origin of complex life

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...
CSOonline

Notepad++ author says fixes make update mechanism ‘effectively unexploitable’

The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author. Don Ho made the ...
Nature

This giant virus hijacks cells’ protein-making machinery to multiply wildly

A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opts its host’s systems with the help of potentially purloined genes. The researchers found that the virus makes a complex ...
LGBTQ Nation

A cure for HIV is in sight. Here’s what scientists are working on.

Is a cure for HIV in sight? Since the virus that causes AIDS was identified over 40 years ago, finding a cure has been the holy grail of HIV research and the army of scientists conducting it. I’m ...