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Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images
A post-doc researcher has found that thousands of commercial antibody products are marketed using images that show signs of manipulation similar to the kind that would trigger a retraction if found in a scientific paper. Reese Richardson of Northwestern University first noticed the issue in May, and after refining his search with collaborator Sholto David,…
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Polestar claims it was blindsided by sales ban
Polestar has told its US dealers that the Trump administration’s Commerce Department rejected its application to keep selling electric vehicles in America under a rule banning connected vehicle software from countries such as China, despite months of meetings that led the company to expect approval. This matters because sister company Volvo, which shares similar Chinese…
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You could’ve applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack
Oracle’s July 2026 security update included 1,449 patches, yet none would have stopped a credential-theft attack on an Oracle database server documented by security firm Huntress. The incident began with a straightforward SQL injection against a public-facing web application, but attackers then used a legitimate Oracle database feature to plant a post-exploitation toolkit, highlighting a…
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New bootloader lets you take the “Meta” out of the original Meta Quest
Tinkerers have released QuestStack, a new root-access exploit and bootloader for the original Meta Quest headset, which Meta stopped officially supporting in 2023 in favour of the Quest 2 and 3. The tool chains together previously known vulnerabilities in the device’s Android fastboot process to grant full root access, freeing the ageing hardware from any…
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89-year-old hit with fine after leaving car park because he couldn’t get parking app on his 20-year-old Nokia
An 89-year-old driver from Bury St Edmunds has been fined after leaving a car park in Haverhill, Suffolk, because he could not download the payment app needed to pay for parking on his 20-year-old Nokia phone. Roland Nice found on arrival that the car park no longer accepted cash, and after struggling between two payment…
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Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing
Microsoft has warned Excel users that its existing Exchange connector for pulling Mail and Calendar data into workbooks is being retired, and the move to new connectors will require manual reconnection rather than an automatic transition. The change is tied to the broader retirement of Exchange Web Services (EWS), with enforcement of that retirement in…
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Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop
OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating from Russia that were being used to run a covert influence operation, directing social media users towards a fake Israeli think tank sympathetic to Moscow. The company said the operation appeared to have had only limited reach, but its unusually elaborate setup made it stand out…
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AI reshapes radiologists’ work without replacing them
AI has become deeply embedded in radiology, but rather than replacing doctors as once predicted, it is reshaping how they work. In 2016, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton forecast that radiologists would be replaced by computers within five years; instead, the profession is growing, with practitioner numbers expected to rise by at least 26% over the…
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Australia faces pre-rule rush for AI datacentre approvals
Australia’s federal government is preparing new rules for datacentres that would require developers to avoid pushing up power prices, bring their own renewable energy to the grid, minimise water use and site facilities away from homes, schools and farmland. Because the rules will not be retrospective, any project approved before the legislation passes next year…
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Sony phones in an update to the midrange Xperia 10 and slaps a sizable price hike on it
Sony has launched the Xperia 10 VIII, an update to its midrange Android handset that offers only minor changes over last year’s Xperia 10 VII while costing considerably more. The move highlights how component costs, particularly the ongoing memory chip shortage sometimes dubbed the “RAMpocalypse”, are pushing up prices even on modest phone refreshes with…