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AI can now edit DNA and create deepfake viruses
The Screening Breakdown: The world’s primary defense against synthetic bioweapons is sequence matching. When a lab orders DNA, automated software checks the order against a “blocklist” of dangerous pathogens (like Smallpox or Anthrax).
AI is moving beyond text, images, and code. Now it’s learning to read and write — shall we say program — DNA.
In this episode of NEXT, John Koetsier talks with Eric Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of Radical Numerics, about the rapidly emerging world of biological AI.
Nguyen and his team helped create Evo and Evo 2, generative foundation models for DNA, and are now working toward what they call “general biological intelligence”: AI systems capable of understanding biology across DNA, gene expression, methylation, proteins, and other biological signals.
The potential upside is enormous.
New spinning drone hides in plain sight
‘Phantom Twist’ harnesses motion blur to nearly vanish in flight.
If You’re Over 40, You Need to Do These 10 Things
Cryonics is one of the most misunderstood ideas in science today: most people think it means “freezing dead people.” It doesn’t. Follow Tomorrow.bio to understand what cryopreservation actually is, how it works, and why a growing number of healthy people are choosing to sign up for it long before they need it. Thinking seriously about cryopreservation? We created a free guide covering the process, costs, funding, and important planning decisions: https://www.tomorrow.bio/tools/cryoguide 🫀ABOUT THIS VIDEO Turning 40 doesn’t mean slowing down; it means training smarter. In this video, our lifespan extension expert breaks down the 10 essential habits that help you stay strong, sharp, and energized as you age. These are the changes that actually move the needle. Start with one, build from there, and set yourself up for the decades ahead. 🔎 CHAPTERS [ 00:00 ] – Introduction [ 01:56 ] – First Habit [ 02:49 ] – Second Habit [ 03:54 ] – Third Habit [ 04:38 ] – Fourth Habit [ 05:28 ] – Fifth Habit [ 06:26 ] – Sixth Habit [ 07:03 ] – Seventh Habit [ 07:54 ] – Eighth Habit [ 10:00 ] – Ninth Habit [ 10:49 ] – Tenth Habit [ 11:33 ] – Conclusion 📸 IMAGE & FOOTAGE CREDITS “How to Get 200g of Protein in One Day” by Neil M White (Medium) / how-to-get-200g-of-protein-in-1-day “Sam Warburton’s 200g Protein Meal Plan” by Isaac Williams (Men’s Health UK) https://www.menshealth.com/uk/nutriti… your step: why the 10,000 daily goal is built on bad science” (The Guardian, 2018) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst… “I Ate 200g Of Protein Every Day and it Changed My Life” (Soueid, 2026)
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Black Hat USA 2026: The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident
The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident — A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI
When AI Goes Rogue. The Incident That Changed Everything. An OpenAI evaluation agent broke out of its sandbox, infiltrated Hugging Face infrastructure, and attempted to steal test answers—all autonomously. No human involved. The era of AI-driven cyberattacks is here. Are you prepared?
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Station Crew Gears Up for Next Spacewalk, Keeps Up Microgravity Research
The next spacewalk outside the International Space Station is set to take place on Tuesday, Aug. 18. Two Expedition 75 astronauts will work in the vacuum of space to replace a space-to-ground antenna to maintain high-speed data and communication transmissions between the orbital outpost and mission controllers.
Flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) are gearing up for next week’s spacewalk that will see the duo spend about six-and-a-half hours swapping an antenna on the orbital outpost’s Z1 truss segment. Menon and Adenot worked together on Monday inside the Quest airlock and organized the tools they will carry outside of the space station for the replacement job. Station commander Jessica Meir and flight engineer Jack Hathaway, both from NASA. studied the Canadarm2 robotic arm maneuvers they will use to assist next week’s spacewalkers. Hathaway and Adenot also took turns cleaning the cooling systems in a pair of spacesuits. The quartet wrapped up Monday’s shift reviewing procedures for the upcoming spacewalk.
The most recent spacewalk took place on Aug. 6 to augment the space station’s power system. Meir and Menon spent six hours and 27 minutes building a modification kit on the station’s Starboard 6 truss segment where a roll out solar array is slated to be installed later this year.
For roughly a billion years of Earth’s deep past, the Moon’s ocean tides may have slowed the planet while a Sundriven atmospheric tide sped it up, holding the day near 19 hours rocks preserve a hypothesis, not a stopwatch
Calling this a tug-of-war makes the mechanism vivid, but there was no rope, no conscious contest and perhaps no clean moment when one side “won”. There were two transfers of angular momentum whose strengths depended on a planet that was itself continually changing.
That is the version I find most persuasive to hold lightly. Earth’s day may have remained near 19 hours for an interval longer than complex animals have existed, because sunlight organised the air in just the right rhythm to counter the Moon’s pull on the sea. The evidence is suggestive, the mechanism is physically plausible, and neither is final.