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Virus-like particles observed assembling in real time (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-16 | by Uetrecht | tags: virus-like particle, protein shell assembly, nature journal

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Molecular-level observation of the self-assembly of a virus-like particle (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-16 | by Asor | tags: virus-like particle, spycatcher, mi3-vlp

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Anthropic says Claude thwarted bioweapon research from state-sponsored actors — covert accounts used U.S. proxies to attempt to engineer deadlier viruses, tried to evade identification and regional blocks (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-11 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: anthropic, claude, bioweapons

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Anthropic Just Revealed That It’s Stopped Foreign Agents From Using Claude to Develop Possible Bioweapons (futurism.com)

2026-09-11 | by Frank Landymore | tags: anthropic, claude, bioweapons

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Scientists Say LLMs Appear to Be Acting as a Cognitive Virus Among Humans (futurism.com)

2026-09-08 | by Victor Tangermann | get Thinking Fast and Slow Kahneman book → | tags: large language models, chatgpt, openai

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LLMs as a Cognitive Virus (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-05 | get The Alignment Problem Brian Christian book → | tags: llms, cognitive virus, artificial intelligence

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Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | get Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts de Hamel book → | tags: sheeppox, medieval manuscripts, dna sequencing

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Structure and operating principles of a monkeypox virus replisome (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-02 | by Yu | tags: monkeypox, mpvx, expi293f

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Insights into longevity and virus-driven adaptation from <i>Myotis</i> bat genomes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-26 | by Vazquez | get Echo Meter Touch 2 bat detector → | tags: myotis, genome, covid-19

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Fake GTA VI ISO circulates on the internet a few days after leak, internet sleuths claim 113GB download is padded malware — testers claim file is 99.99% empty zeroes with 50KB virus embedded (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-23 | by Jowi Morales | get Malwarebytes Premium antivirus 1 year → | tags: gta vi, rockstar games, torrent sites

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Virus deploys a ‘loose cannon’ enzyme to overpower bacterial defences (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: virus, enzyme, bacteria

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AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Elie Dolgin | tags: stanford university, ai-designed phages, bacteriophages

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Bernie Sanders Issues Warning to AI CEOs (futurism.com)

2026-08-12 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: openai, anthropic, meta

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Shared principles of human and bacterial antiviral immunity (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-12 | by Kranzusch | tags: sars-cov-2, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus

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England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Michelle Roberts | tags: england, hepatitis c, virus

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For the First Time, AI Designed 16 New Viruses, Raising Fears and Hopes (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: viruses, stanford university, arc institute

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AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA’s pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides — experts warn such applications are way ahead of necessary guardrails (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Etiido Uko | tags: blocks, model, organism

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The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-07 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: ai designed, censorship, censorship industrial

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Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses (wired.com)

2026-08-07 | by Fernanda González | tags: bacteria, bacterial, capable

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AI Model Invents Completely New Viruses Unknown to Nature (futurism.com)

2026-08-07 | by Frank Landymore | tags: bacteria, create, model

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Scientists Make First Viruses Designed By AI (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: access, college london, design

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The Latest Scary-Sounding AI Milestone: A Brand-New Virus (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-07 | tags: alarms, alarms researchers, bacteria

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Oh Cool, AI Is Inventing New Biological Viruses Now (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: ai inventing, biological, biological viruses

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AI is now making new viruses (engadget.com)

2026-08-06 | by Will Shanklin | tags: bacteria, language, models

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Large genome models used to design new viruses (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: genome, large, large genome

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AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Will Knight | tags: agents, ai models, computer

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AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Will Knight | tags: agents, ai models, computer

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COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Kozlov | tags: covid, immune, long

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Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Maguire | tags: mathrm, nasal, samples

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A Rare and Deadly Tick Virus With No Cure Has Taken Hold in New York (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: bourbon virus, stony brook, new york