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The dangers of sneezing—from ejected bowels to torn windpipes
If you were to envision the kind of accident that would cause a person’s bowels to explode out of their body, you might ...
Glaze—a tool protecting artists from AI—bypassed by attack as demand spikes
Defenses against AI training exist—like Glaze, a tool that adds a small amount of imperceptible-to-humans noise to images to ...
Swarm of dusty young stars found around our galaxy’s central black hole
Supermassive black holes are ravenous. Clumps of dust and gas are prone to being disrupted by the turbulence and radiation ...
High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil
The finds come from a site called the Baishiya Karst Cave, which is perched on a cliff on the northeast of the Tibetan ...
NASA selects SpaceX to launch a gamma-ray telescope into an unusual orbit
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) mission features a gamma-ray telescope that will scan the sky to study gamma-rays ...
“Everything’s frozen”: Ransomware locks credit union users out of bank accounts
Patelco branches, call center services, and live chats have "limited functionality," as do debit card transactions, credit ...
Two of the German military’s new spy satellites appear to have failed in orbit
On the day before Christmas last year, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from California and put two spy satellites into low-Earth ...
384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm
More than 384,000 websites are linking to a site that was caught last week performing a supply-chain attack that redirected ...
Soda additive “no longer considered safe,” gets long-awaited FDA ban
After more than five decades of limbo, the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday revoked the authorization of brominated ...
Japan wins 2-year “war on floppy disks,” kills regulations requiring old tech
But Japan isn't the only government body with surprisingly recent ties to the technology. For example, San Francisco's Muni ...
The Earth heated up when its day was 22 hours long
Because most things about Earth change so slowly, it's difficult to imagine them being any different in the past. But Earth's ...
Yes, you should be a little freaked out about Hurricane Beryl
Yes, a tropical storm might form here or a modest hurricane there. But the really big and powerful hurricanes, which develop ...