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Scientists Mapped Every Neuron in a Fruit Fly and the Brain Wasn’t Running the Show

Scientists have created the first complete brain-to-body wiring map of a fruit fly, revealing that complex behavior may arise from distributed neural teamwork rather than a central controller. A large international research team led by labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has r

Over 400 Arch Linux packages compromised to push rootkit, infostealer

More than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) are distributing a Linux rootkit and infostealer malware targeting credentials and access tokens.

A report from the open-source intelligence community Independent Federated Intelligence Network (IFIN) notes that a new maintainer is spoofing a trusted publisher on the AUR platform to push infected packages.

The Arch Linux distribution is popular among power users and developers, using the AUR catalog to provide the latest versions for installed software, drivers, and the kernel.

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