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Medicaid ends funding for child sex-change procedures as Trump admin slams ‘experimental’ treatments
CMS under Mehmet Oz announces Medicaid and CHIP will no longer fund puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or sex change surgeries for children.
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‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts
Zoom has patched a serious security vulnerability, dubbed “Zoomsday” by researchers, that could have allowed an attacker to hijack the device of anyone in a meeting without them noticing. Security firm A Security says it discovered the flaw using fewer than 20 prompts on publicly available AI models, highlighting how AI tools are lowering the…
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David Ellison Told Top Execs Paramount Will Exit California If AG Refuses To Negotiate Settlement In WBD Merger Suit
Paramount CEO David Ellison has warned senior executives that the company will begin relocating out of California from 1 October if state Attorney General Rob Bonta refuses to negotiate a settlement over the antitrust lawsuit challenging Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The threat escalates a bitter public dispute between Paramount and California’s top prosecutor…
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Copernicus! Tony Soprano! The inventor of the semicolon! The heroic obsessions of artist Isabel Nolan
Isabel Nolan, a Dublin-based artist, has created Ireland’s presentation for the Venice Biennale, transforming the national pavilion into a secular chapel-like installation titled “Dreamshook”. The work borrows heavily from Christian visual language, such as stained-glass-style arches and radiant tapestries, but redirects that aesthetic power towards celebrating secular figures including scientists and humanists, reflecting Nolan’s belief…
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David Ellison Threatens to Pull Paramount Out of California Starting Oct. 1 if States Refuse to Negotiate Settlement in Antitrust Suit
Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison has told senior executives he is prepared to move the studio out of California from 1 October if state attorney general Rob Bonta refuses to open settlement talks over the antitrust lawsuit blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. The threat, confirmed by Variety and first reported by Puck, appears designed…
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High school football player practices with venomous snake hiding inside helmet before coach’s discovery
A high school American football player in Arkansas had an alarming surprise during a pre-season practice session when a venomous snake was discovered hiding inside his helmet. The incident occurred at Maumelle High School as the team ran drills split into position groups, and it was only spotted after a teammate noticed movement inside the…
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A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call
Security researchers have disclosed vulnerabilities in Zoom’s screen-sharing feature that could have let an attacker silently take control of another participant’s device during a call, without any warning or interaction required from the victim. The flaws, found by the firm A Security, are particularly striking because they were uncovered using publicly available AI models in…
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A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Computer scientists have found a way to extract the hidden “thinking” process that frontier AI models use to work through complex problems, exposing a vulnerability shared by major providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The technique offers evidence, though not proof, that some Chinese AI models may have been trained by “distilling” reasoning from US…
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Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G
Researchers at the University of Birmingham and Fuzzware have shown that a malicious SIM card can hijack a phone or connected device by exploiting standardised “proactive SIM” features, potentially executing code, stealing files, forcing a shutdown, or downgrading a connection to 2G. Because the attack abuses functionality explicitly defined in cellular technical specifications rather than…
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AI ‘will do more to boost fossil fuel production than green energy’
A new study is the first to quantify AI’s climate impact across the entire power sector, finding that productivity gains AI delivers to fossil fuel extraction outweigh the emissions savings it enables in renewables. Researchers modelled 64 scenarios and concluded that net carbon pollution would rise, undercutting claims that AI is primarily a boon for…