Saúl Morales Rodriguéz – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:08:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 U.S. House Bans WhatsApp on Official Devices Over Security and Data Protection Issues https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/u-s-house-bans-whatsapp-on-official-devices-over-security-and-data-protection-issues https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/u-s-house-bans-whatsapp-on-official-devices-over-security-and-data-protection-issues#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:08:37 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/u-s-house-bans-whatsapp-on-official-devices-over-security-and-data-protection-issues

The U.S. House of Representatives has formally banned congressional staff members from using WhatsApp on government-issued devices, citing security concerns.

The development was first reported by Axios.

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Hackers Exploit Misconfigured Docker APIs to Mine Cryptocurrency via Tor Network https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/hackers-exploit-misconfigured-docker-apis-to-mine-cryptocurrency-via-tor-network https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/hackers-exploit-misconfigured-docker-apis-to-mine-cryptocurrency-via-tor-network#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:08:26 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/hackers-exploit-misconfigured-docker-apis-to-mine-cryptocurrency-via-tor-network

Attackers exploit Docker misconfigurations to mine cryptocurrency using Tor, targeting technology, financial, and healthcare industries.

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MIT’s New 3D Chips Could Make Electronics Faster and More Energy-Efficient https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/mits-new-3d-chips-could-make-electronics-faster-and-more-energy-efficient https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/mits-new-3d-chips-could-make-electronics-faster-and-more-energy-efficient#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:14:12 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/mits-new-3d-chips-could-make-electronics-faster-and-more-energy-efficient

The low-cost, scalable technology enables seamless integration of high-speed gallium nitride transistors onto a standard silicon chip. Gallium nitride is an advanced semiconductor material that is expected to play a key role in the next generation of high-speed communication systems and the power

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Breakthrough in Solar-Blind Tech: Diamond Nanowires Set a New Benchmark https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/breakthrough-in-solar-blind-tech-diamond-nanowires-set-a-new-benchmark https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/breakthrough-in-solar-blind-tech-diamond-nanowires-set-a-new-benchmark#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:13:52 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/breakthrough-in-solar-blind-tech-diamond-nanowires-set-a-new-benchmark

A new photodetector design using platinum-infused diamond nanowires achieves record-breaking UV sensitivity and heat resistance. Diamond nanowires embedded with platinum nanoparticles could transform high-temperature solar-blind photodetection thanks to their impressive performance and stability.

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Overcoming Long-Held Limitations: Korean Scientists Unveil Next-Generation Energy Storage Technology https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/overcoming-long-held-limitations-korean-scientists-unveil-next-generation-energy-storage-technology https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/overcoming-long-held-limitations-korean-scientists-unveil-next-generation-energy-storage-technology#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:13:39 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/overcoming-long-held-limitations-korean-scientists-unveil-next-generation-energy-storage-technology

Developing next-generation energy storage technologies that can deliver both high power and high capacity at the same time. A research team led by Dr. Bon-Cheol Ku and Dr. Seo Gyun Kim from the Carbon Composite Materials Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), alo

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Toxoplasma gondii infection of neurons alters the production and content of extracellular vesicles directing astrocyte phenotype and contributing to the loss of GLT-1 in the infected brain https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/toxoplasma-gondii-infection-of-neurons-alters-the-production-and-content-of-extracellular-vesicles-directing-astrocyte-phenotype-and-contributing-to-the-loss-of-glt-1-in-the-infected-brain https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/toxoplasma-gondii-infection-of-neurons-alters-the-production-and-content-of-extracellular-vesicles-directing-astrocyte-phenotype-and-contributing-to-the-loss-of-glt-1-in-the-infected-brain#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:13:23 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/toxoplasma-gondii-infection-of-neurons-alters-the-production-and-content-of-extracellular-vesicles-directing-astrocyte-phenotype-and-contributing-to-the-loss-of-glt-1-in-the-infected-brain

Infection with the obligate intracellular parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, leads to neuronal cysts in the brain for the lifetime of the host. Our lab has previously determined that chronic infection leads to loss of astrocytic glutamate transported, GLT-1, leading to neuronal excitotoxicity. GLT-1 can be regulated by neuronal derived extracellular vesicles (EVs). We wanted to determine if cyst infection of neurons altered EV production and content and if EVs derived from cyst-containing neurons changed astrocyte function. Our study found that Toxoplasma cyst infection decreased EV production by neurons and altered EV host protein and miRNA content. In addition, EVs from infected neurons contained parasite derived proteins including the secreted dense granule protein GRA7. Incubation of these EVs with astrocytes led to EV uptake, GRA7 localization to the nucleus, a decrease in GLT-1 expression, and changes in the transcriptional signature of astrocytes to a pro-inflammatory response. Finally, these changes in astrocytic gene expression could be seen in vivo following infection using scRNAseq. This study demonstrates that Toxoplasma cysts alter neuron-astrocyte communication bypassing traditional immune mechanisms of recognition and leading to changes in astrocyte function.

Citation: Tabaie EZ, Gao Z, Kachour N, Ulu A, Gomez S, Figueroa ZA, et al. (2025) PLoS Pathog 21: e1012733. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.

Editor: Eric Y. Denkers, University of New Mexico—Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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Your Brain Has a Hidden Rhythm, And It May Reveal How Smart You Are https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/your-brain-has-a-hidden-rhythm-and-it-may-reveal-how-smart-you-are https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/your-brain-has-a-hidden-rhythm-and-it-may-reveal-how-smart-you-are#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:07:20 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/your-brain-has-a-hidden-rhythm-and-it-may-reveal-how-smart-you-are

The smarter you are, the more your brain is in sync with its own secret rhythm, a new study has found.

When your brain works particularly hard, different regions of the brain sync up as they work together to perform tasks that require a higher cognitive load. This is called theta connectivity, and a new study has found that not only is it highly flexible, adapting quickly to changing situations, but better brain coordination strongly correlates with cognitive ability.

“Specific signals in the midfrontal brain region are better synchronized in people with higher cognitive ability – especially during demanding phases of reasoning,” says psychologist Anna-Lena Schubert of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany.

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Burnout Might Not Actually Be a Work Problem After All, Study Shows https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/burnout-might-not-actually-be-a-work-problem-after-all-study-shows https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/burnout-might-not-actually-be-a-work-problem-after-all-study-shows#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:06:55 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/burnout-might-not-actually-be-a-work-problem-after-all-study-shows

When we hear the term “burnout”, most of us would think about working long hours, and the stress built up from our jobs and the people involved in them. However, a surprising new study suggests that only a minority of people with burnout actually think their symptoms are due to their work.

The research, which was led by a team from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), could challenge the conventional thinking about how people reach burnout, and how we might be able to protect against it.

Less than 30 percent of the people surveyed blamed their job as the primary reason they felt burnt out.

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Echo Chamber Jailbreak Tricks LLMs Like OpenAI and Google into Generating Harmful Content https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/echo-chamber-jailbreak-tricks-llms-like-openai-and-google-into-generating-harmful-content https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/echo-chamber-jailbreak-tricks-llms-like-openai-and-google-into-generating-harmful-content#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:06:35 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/echo-chamber-jailbreak-tricks-llms-like-openai-and-google-into-generating-harmful-content

New Echo Chamber jailbreak manipulates LLMs like OpenAI and Google, bypassing safety systems to generate harmful content

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Malware on Google Play, Apple App Store stole your photos—and crypto https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/malware-on-google-play-apple-app-store-stole-your-photos-and-crypto https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/malware-on-google-play-apple-app-store-stole-your-photos-and-crypto#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:06:22 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/malware-on-google-play-apple-app-store-stole-your-photos-and-crypto

A new mobile crypto-stealing malware called SparkKitty was found in apps on Google Play and the Apple App Store, targeting Android and iOS devices.

The malware is a possible evolution of SparkCat, which Kaspersky discovered in January. SparkCat used optical character recognition (OCR) to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from images saved on infected devices.

When installing crypto wallets, the installation process tells users to write down the wallet’s recovery phrase and store it in a secure, offline location.

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