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A CDC report on bird flu shows potential transmission of bird flu between exposed dairy workers and indoor pet cats. The report also provides a window into the lack of reporting and cooperation at dairy farms and by dairy workers.
The Trump administration wants to use the military to fight Mexican drug cartels.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s postponements come amid expected protests in response to his vote to advance a Republican measure to avert a shutdown.
Rasha Alawieh, a Rhode Island doctor, was detained on Thursday in Boston after visiting family in Lebanon.
Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world’s children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life.
Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain’s visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a different set of face-sensitive visual regions-again in almost identical positions in each reader’s brain-would activate to process the faces of the researchers, should you meet them?
In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and inflammation when exposed to dry air, an occurrence expected to increase due to global warming.
The inquiry’s chair says she has had similar requests from Letby’s legal team and Tory MP David Davis.
Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have uncovered how pancreatic cancer hijacks a crucial metabolism ‘switch’ to help it spread, revealing a potential new treatment strategy for this highly aggressive disease.
The debate has sparked a wider dilemma about the broader purpose of welfare
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine have developed a powerful AI tool, built on the same transformer architecture used by large language models like ChatGPT, to process an entire night’s sleep.
Doctors have reported a rare case where the use of a menstrual cup was linked to kidney problems.
Microsoft’s Windows updates over the last couple years have mostly been focused on adding generative AI features to the operating system, including multiple versions of the Copilot assistant. Copilot has made it into Windows 11 (and even, to a more limited extent, the aging Windows 10) as a native app, and then a wrapper around a web app, and soon as a native app again. But this month’s Windows updates are actually removing the Copilot app from some Windows 11 PCs and unpinning it from the taskbar, according to this Microsoft support document. This bug obviously won’t affect systems where Copilot had already been uninstalled, but it has already led to confusion among some Windows users. Microsoft says it is “working on a resolution to address the issue” but that users who want to get Copilot back can reinstall the app from the Microsoft Store and repin it to the taskbar, the same process you use to install Copilot on PCs where it has been removed. Read full article Comments
Enforcement of a first-of-its-kind United Kingdom law that Elon Musk wants Tweety McTreason to gut kicked in today, with potentially huge penalties possibly imminent for any Big Tech companies deemed non-compliant. UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) forces tech companies to detect and remove dangerous online content, threatening fines of up to 10 percent of global turnover. In extreme cases, widely used platforms like Musk’s X could be shut down or executives even jailed if UK online safety regulator Ofcom determines there has been a particularly egregious violation. Critics call it a censorship bill, listing over 130 “priority” offenses across 17 categories detailing what content platforms must remove. The list includes illegal content connected to terrorism, child sexual exploitation, human trafficking, illegal drugs, animal welfare, and other crimes. But it also broadly restricts content in legally gray areas, like posts considered “extreme pornography,” harassment, or controlling behavior. Read full article Comments
