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Mar 28, 2024

$700 cybercrime software turns Raspberry Pi into an evasive fraud tool

Posted by in categories: cryptocurrencies, cybercrime/malcode, finance

Cybercriminals are selling custom Raspberry Pi software called ‘GEOBOX’ on Telegram, which allows inexperienced hackers to convert the mini-computers into anonymous cyberattack tools.

GEOBOX is sold on Telegram channels for a subscription of $80 per month or $700 for a lifetime license, payable in cryptocurrency.

Analysts at Resecurity discovered the tool during an investigation into a high-profile banking theft impacting a Fortune 100 company.

Mar 28, 2024

MIT scientists have just figured out how to make the most popular AI image generators 30 times faster

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Popular artificial intelligence (AI) powered image generators can run up to 30 times faster thanks to a technique that condenses an entire 100-stage process into one step, new research shows.

Scientists have devised a technique called “distribution matching distillation” (DMD) that teaches new AI models to mimic established image generators, known as diffusion models, such as DALL·E 3, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

Mar 28, 2024

What’s next for generative video

Posted by in categories: business, internet, robotics/AI

A number of companies are racing to make a business on the back of these breakthroughs. Most are figuring out what that business is as they go. “I’ll routinely scream, ‘Holy cow, that is wicked cool’ while playing with these tools,” says Gary Lipkowitz, CEO of Vyond, a firm that provides a point-and-click platform for putting together short animated videos. “But how can you use this at work?”

Whatever the answer to that question, it will probably upend a wide range of businesses and change the roles of many professionals, from animators to advertisers. Fears of misuse are also growing. The widespread ability to generate fake video will make it easier than ever to flood the internet with propaganda and nonconsensual porn. We can see it coming. The problem is, nobody has a good fix.

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Mar 28, 2024

Mars may have captured and split a comet to create its two moons

Posted by in category: space

How the Red Planet acquired its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is unknown – they could have formed after something collided with the planet, or started out as asteroids – but now there is a hint of a cometary origin.

By Jonathan O’Callaghan

Mar 28, 2024

Elon Musk reveals plan for next Starship mission

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

The static fire test comes less than two weeks after the last Starship mission, which saw the rocket reach orbital velocity for the first time before breaking up upon reentry to Earth’s atmosphere.

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s chief operating officer, said last week that the next launch attempt could take place in the “beginning part of May”, though no payload will be onboard.

The fourth major flight test of the fully stacked Starship rocket system will instead aim to resolve the issues that arose during the last mission.

Mar 28, 2024

Study unveils a spontaneous toroidal polar topology in the helielectric nematic state

Posted by in category: futurism

Magnetic and electric dipoles, objects with two oppositely charged ends, have a similar symmetrical structure. One might thus assume that they exhibit similar internal structures and physical states.

Mar 28, 2024

Kate Rice — Cured: Stage 4 Cancer and the Culture That Caused It (The HEAL Podcast)

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Listen to this episode of The HEAL Podcast with Kate Rice on…Spotify — https://tinyurl.com/yt7eha76Apple Podcasts — https://tinyurl.com/3fftfxptEPISODE DES…

Mar 28, 2024

Clinical trial: Some sarcoma patients improve with T cell immunotherapy

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

A clinical trial led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that a T cell immunotherapy—in which the patients’ own T cells are genetically modified to attack and kill cancer cells—is effective in treating some patients with rare cancers of the body’s soft tissues.

Mar 28, 2024

Antibody Therapy Rejuvenates Aging Mouse Immune System, Boosting Vaccine Response

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

The results of the team’s research showed that the approach, targeting a subset of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that increase with age, rebalanced blood-cell production and reduced age-related immune decline. The treatment significantly improved the ability of geriatric animals’ immune systems to tackle a new virus, and to respond to vaccination, enabling the animals to fight off a new viral threat months later.

“This is a real paradigm shift—researchers and clinicians should think in a new way about the immune system and aging,” said Stanford postdoctoral scholar Jason Ross, MD, PhD. “The idea that it’s possible to tune the entire immune system of millions of cells simply by affecting the function of such a rare population is surprising and exciting.”

Weissman, who is professor of pathology and of developmental biology, and Kim Hasenkrug, PhD, the chief of Rocky Mountain Laboratories’ Retroviral Immunology Section, are senior authors of the team’s published study in Nature, titled “Depleting myeloid-biased haematopoietic stem cells rejuvenates aged immunity.” Ross and Lara Myers, PhD, a research fellow at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, are lead authors of the report, in which the team concluded, “The clinical development of safe protocols to rebalance HSCs could have broad effects on a number of age-associated issues.”

Mar 28, 2024

Implantable battery is charged up by the body’s oxygen supply

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Many medical implants run on batteries that need to be recharged, but what if you could do so just by breathing?

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