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Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents. When making the search about President Trump, AI Over

Want to make your own widgets? Nothing Phones now let you do just that.

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing has just announced Essential, which is a suite of AI tools. The first tools as part of Essential are Essential Apps and Playground. Essential Apps are effectively user-created mini-apps or widgets, while Playground is the platform used to create them. Nothing currently offers its Essential Space feature for smart organization and productivity functionality. Now, the company has announced Essential, which is effectively an umbrella term for its AI

Undetected, Dangerous Asteroids Could Be Lurking in Venus’s Orbit

Space can be a dangerous place, with massive rocks hurling through the solar system at fast speeds, some of which may be headed in our direction. NASA and other agencies keep a close watch on the skies, on the lookout for potentially hazardous asteroids that threaten Earth. As it turns out, however, a unique group of potentially problematic asteroids may be hiding in plain sight. A group of researchers are warning of the potential threat of asteroids that share the orbit of Venus, circling the

PyPI urges users to reset credentials after new phishing attacks

The Python Software Foundation has warned victims of a new wave of phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website to reset credentials. Accessible at pypi.org, PyPI is the default source for Python's package management tools, hosting hundreds of thousands of packages and providing developers with a centralized platform to distribute third-party software libraries. Python Software Foundation developer Seth Larson said the phishing emails request targets to "verify their email

How Energy-Generating Sidewalks Work

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch in a busy city. You’re expending energy, and the exercise is good for you. But what if, on top of that, we could recapture all that freely supplied energy and convert it to usable electricity? This is a real thing. Systems have been installed in dozens of countries. Check out this video. And why stop there? You could put them in discotheques and harness that fancy footwork to power the strobe lights. Or bui

Automatic differentiation can be incorrect

ISCL Seminar Series The Numerical Analysis of Differentiable Simulation: How Automatic Differentiation of Physics Can Give Incorrect Derivatives Scientific machine learning (SciML) relies heavily on automatic differentiation (AD), the process of constructing gradients which include machine learning integrated into mechanistic models for the purpose of gradient-based optimization. While these differentiable programming approaches pitch an idea of “simply put the simulator into a loss function a

Automatic Differentiation Can Be Incorrect

ISCL Seminar Series The Numerical Analysis of Differentiable Simulation: How Automatic Differentiation of Physics Can Give Incorrect Derivatives Scientific machine learning (SciML) relies heavily on automatic differentiation (AD), the process of constructing gradients which include machine learning integrated into mechanistic models for the purpose of gradient-based optimization. While these differentiable programming approaches pitch an idea of “simply put the simulator into a loss function a

SonicWall warns customers to reset credentials after breach

SonicWall warned customers today to reset credentials after their firewall configuration backup files were exposed in a security breach that impacted MySonicWall accounts. After detecting the incident, SonicWall has cut off the attackers' access to its systems and has been collaborating with cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies to investigate the attack's impact. "As part of our commitment to transparency, we are notifying you of an incident that exposed firewall configuration backup fil

Paramount Plus' Annual Plan Streaming Deal Ends Soon

Between hikes at Apple TV Plus, Peacock and Netflix, streaming services haven't held back on raising prices in 2025. It's as good a time as any for a deal, and Paramount Plus is offering one for new and returning subscribers. Now through Sept. 18, you can get half off Paramount Plus' annual plans, which require you to pay up-front for the 12 months. You can choose between $30 for a year of Paramount Plus Essential, which is ad-based, and $60 for Paramount Plus Premium, which has no commercials

Pixel 10 fights AI fakes with new Android photo verification tech

Google is integrating C2PA Content Credentials into the Pixel 10 camera and Google Photos, to help users distinguish between authentic, unaltered images and those generated or edited with artificial intelligence technology. The American company notes that the problem of labeling synthetic media has become bigger in recent years as traditional approaches are no longer suitable and leave room for leave room for interpretation and misrepresentation. In the latest Pixel 10 phones, every JPEG photo

Get 50% Off Paramount Plus Annual Plans With This Streaming Deal

Between hikes at Netflix, Peacock and Apple TV Plus, streaming services haven't held back on increasing prices in 2025. It's as good a time as any for a deal, and Paramount Plus is offering one for new and returning subscribers. Now through Sept. 18, you can get half off Paramount Plus' annual plans, which require you to pay up-front for the 12 months. You can choose between $30 for a year of Paramount Plus Essential, which is ad-based, and $60 for Paramount Plus Premium, which has no commercia

Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

A study has found that exposure to air pollution can increase the risk of developing Lewy body dementia.Credit: Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times/Shutterstock An analysis of 56 million people has shown that exposure to air pollution increases the risk of developing a particular form of dementia, the third most common type after Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. The study, published in Science on 4 September1, suggests that there is a clear link between long-term exposure to PM 2.5 — airborne

How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook

Contents: Part I: Technical Analysis Part II: Goals Analysis Part III: Threat Intelligence Report Executive Summary A rare and revealing breach attributed to a North Korean-affiliated actor, known only as “Kim” as named by the hackers who dumped the data, has delivered a new insight into Kimsuky (APT43) tactics, techniques, and infrastructure. This actor’s operational profile showcases credential-focused intrusions targeting South Korean and Taiwanese networks, with a blending of Chinese-la

How the "Kim" dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook

Contents: Part I: Technical Analysis Part II: Goals Analysis Part III: Threat Intelligence Report Executive Summary A rare and revealing breach attributed to a North Korean-affiliated actor, known only as “Kim” as named by the hackers who dumped the data, has delivered a new insight into Kimsuky (APT43) tactics, techniques, and infrastructure. This actor’s operational profile showcases credential-focused intrusions targeting South Korean and Taiwanese networks, with a blending of Chinese-la

Don't Miss Out: Paramount Plus Annual Plans at 50% Off

Between hikes at Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV Plus, streaming services haven't held back on increasing prices in 2025. It's as good a time as any for a deal, and Paramount Plus is offering one for new and returning subscribers. Now through Sept. 18, you can get half off Paramount Plus' annual plans, which require you to pay up-front for the 12 months. You can choose between $30 for a year of Paramount Plus Essential, which is ad-based, and $60 for Paramount Plus Premium, which has no commercia

Ozempic Is an ‘Essential’ Drug, WHO Says as Agency Calls for Cheaper Generics

One of the world’s most sought-after drugs has officially become a vital medication. The World Health Organization has just added semaglutide—the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy—to its list of essential medicines. The WHO’s Model Lists of Essential Medicines is designed to improve affordability and access for the world’s most impactful drugs. Semaglutide and other GLP-1 drugs are among 20 new additions to the list, and it’s clear why. GLP-1s have completely reshaped how clinicians treat

Want Paramount Plus? You Can Get Half Off Annual Plans Right Now

Between hikes at Netflix, Apple TV Plus and Peacock, streaming services haven't held back on increasing prices in 2025. It's as good a time as any for a deal, and Paramount Plus is offering one for new and returning subscribers. Now through Sept. 18, you can get half off Paramount Plus' annual plans, which require you to pay up-front for the 12 months. You can choose between $30 for a year of Paramount Plus Essential, which is ad-based, and $60 for Paramount Plus Premium, which has no commercia

The connected customer

As brands compete for increasingly price conscious consumers, customer experience (CX) has become a decisive differentiator. Yet many struggle to deliver, constrained by outdated systems, fragmented data, and organizational silos that limit both agility and consistency. The current wave of artificial intelligence, particularly agentic AI that can reason and act across workflows, offers a powerful opportunity to reshape service delivery. Organizations can now provide fast, personalized support a

Civics Is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something

December 2, 2024 Volume 22, issue 5 PDF Civics is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something! IT professionals can either passively suffer political solutions or participate in the process to achieve something better. Poul-Henning Kamp It's a common trope in entertainment for some character to deliver a nonlinear response to something seemingly trivial, only for that to later prove to have been a vitally important clue. So, that room the janitor won't let anybody into? Right, that isn't actually

High-severity vulnerability in Passwordstate credential manager. Patch now.

The maker of Passwordstate, an enterprise-grade password manager for storing companies’ most privileged credentials, is urging them to promptly install an update fixing a high-severity vulnerability that hackers can exploit to gain administrative access to their vaults. The authentication bypass allows hackers to create a URL that accesses an emergency access page for Passwordstate. From there, an attacker could pivot to the administrative section of the password manager. A CVE identifier isn’t

Voice recording on Nothing Phone 3’s Essential Space gets a due upgrade

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing has updated the voice recorder functionality in Essential Space. With this update, the voice recordings will not have complete transcriptions instead of just summaries. The update is limited to Nothing Phone 3 and has yet to arrive on the Phone 3a, which offers similar summarization functionality for voice notes. The Nothing Phone 3 may stop short of being the perfect flagship, but it has some unique and nifty elements. One of them is Essential S

Arlo Announces a New Lineup of AI-Powered Security Cameras

Arlo's next generation of security cameras is officially here, and they're all in on AI. New versions of the Arlo Essential, Pro and Ultra cameras integrate with Arlo Intelligence features. The Arlo Essential cameras are some of the company's lowest-priced offerings, because they're basic security cameras without any bells and whistles. Arlo provides different options for 2K resolution or HD recording and plug-in or battery-operated variants. Read more: Best Home Security Cameras of 2025: My P

DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s high-speed Internet connection in the United States. This post examines the history and provenance of DSLRoot, one of the oldest “residential proxy” networks with origins in Russia and Eastern E

DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of 'Legal Botnets'

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s high-speed Internet connection in the United States. This post examines the history and provenance of DSLRoot, one of the oldest “residential proxy” networks with origins in Russia and Eastern E

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. There is an inherent limit to the privacy of the public cloud. While Linux can isolate virtual machines (VMs) from each other, nothing in the system's memory is ultimately out of reach for the host cloud prov

Amazon Drone Beehive Concept (2019)

Transport is one of the main pillars of modern economies comprising a spectrum of individual systems and their interconnections that are intended to cover the mobility demand of people and goods. Transport systems include an extensive series of physical and organisational elements and are being characterised by an overall intrinsic complexity. These elements can be influencing each other directly and/or indirectly, linearly or nonlinearly, having also potential feedback cycles [1]. In particular

ECScape: Understanding IAM Privilege Boundaries in Amazon ECS

This post is Part 2 of our educational series on Amazon ECS security. In Part 1 – Under the Hood of Amazon ECS on EC2, we explored how the ECS agent, IAM roles and the ECS control plane provide credentials to tasks. Here we’ll demonstrate how those mechanisms can lead to a known risk when tasks with different privilege levels share the same EC2 host. This cross-task credential exposure highlights the inherent risks of relying on per-task IAM scoping and task execution boundaries when workloads s

Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia

Dementias such as Alzheimer's disease are estimated to affect more than 57.4 million people worldwide, a number that is expected to almost triple to 152.8 million cases by 2050. The impacts on the individuals, families and caregivers and society at large are immense. While there are some indications that the prevalence of dementia is decreasing in Europe and North America, suggesting that it may be possible to reduce the risk of the disease at a population level, elsewhere the picture is less p

Starlink Teases ‘Community’ Discount for Shared Satellite Access. Here’s How It Works

SpaceX may soon allow multiple Starlink users to share access to a single dish for a lower monthly rate, according to a post on a customer support page. (The news was first reported by PCMag, which is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) The post, which has since been taken down, stated, “Starlink is launching a new affordable way to deliver high-speed internet: one Starlink, multiple subscribers -- each with their own Starlink account and seamless experience.” A Starlink Com

Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices

The Trump administration is telling states they will be shut out of a $42 billion broadband deployment fund if they set the rates that Internet service providers receiving subsidies are allowed to charge people with low incomes. The latest version of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) FAQ on the grant program, released today, is a challenge to states considering laws that would force Internet providers to offer cheap plans to people who meet income eligibility