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Microsoft asks users to ignore ‘Antivirus is turned off’ errors
Microsoft asked customers this week to ignore alerts that Defender Antivirus has been turned off after installing the latest Defender updates.
Although this issue has been affecting users in the Release Preview Channel of the Windows Insider program since June, it appears Microsoft didn’t notice it until now.
The erroneous alerts appear on affected systems in the Windows Security app and prompt users to “Tap or click to turn on Microsoft Defender Antivirus.”
Martians by ZIA | High Arctic | NASA HMP-2003 | Remastered and AI-enhanced with subtitles
We helped remaster and AI-enhance and subtitle this cool pro-Mars settlement video by our Elaine Walker. Enjoy!
We worked a bit with our board member https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.elaine.w… dig up this version from her hard drive before YouTube compressed the hell out of it when she uploaded it in 2006. Subtitles are now added as well as YouTube’s auto-dub just didn’t cut it for this video. This is also AI-enhanced for better resolution.
You can also view the non AI-enhanced version at • Martians by ZIA | High Arctic | NASA HMP-2…
Also, check out Elaine’s new mini-movie music album at • Macrochip Mini-Movie Album (Bohlen-Pierce… t’s meant for friends to have viewing parties! It’s 40 minutes total, made with real human-made stock footage!
This video was commissioned in 2003 by the NASA Haughton-Mars Project and filmed on DV tape (digital video) in the Canadian High Arctic on Devon Island 75 degrees North, Nunavut, Canada. Sam Burbank of National Geographic did the videography and Elaine Walker did the editing. Her band ZIA was formed in 1991 and described themselves as electronic-pro-space-pop. Elaine took part in four additional seasons since then as an official participant, interviewing the scientists and posting photos and blogs.
Analog Devices’ Industrial Revenue Jumped 53%. AI Chips Aren’t Why
Analog Devices posted its first-ever $4 billion quarter in Q3 FY2026, with Industrial revenue reaching $1.97 billion, up 53% year over year. The growth came from automated test equipment, aerospace and defense, and automation, not AI accelerator chips. Meanwhile, ADI’s real AI exposure runs through a different channel entirely: power delivery, where the company says power availability, not chip supply, is now the binding constraint on AI expansion.
Analog Devices industrial revenue just posted its strongest growth in years, and the AI narrative most coverage reaches for doesn’t actually explain it. ADI reported total revenue of $4.02 billion for its fiscal third quarter, ended August 1, 2026, up 40% year over year and above consensus estimates, according to Futurum’s analysis of the results. Industrial, representing 49% of total revenue, grew 53% year over year to $1.97 billion, and CFO Richard Puccio said that growth was led by automated test equipment, aerospace and defense, and automation, not by AI accelerator demand.
ADI’s real AI exposure sits in a different segment. Communications revenue, which includes data center, grew 84% year over year, with data center now representing 80% of that segment, and optical and power products both growing more than 100% year over year, according to TipRanks’ summary of the earnings call. Analog Devices industrial revenue growing 53% on classic end markets, while data center revenue does the actual AI-linked doubling, tells a more precise story than a single headline number crediting “AI demand” for the whole quarter.
Important role of plastid ion channels in plant stress response identified
When plants are attacked by herbivores or pathogens, they must respond rapidly while also preparing for potential future attacks. Calcium, a cellular second messenger, and the plant hormone jasmonic acid play important roles in this response. Within seconds of an injury, the plant generates calcium waves that relay information about the attack. At the same time, the synthesis of jasmonic acid is initiated in the chloroplast, triggering, through several intermediate steps, the expression of defense genes in the cell nucleus.
Until now, however, exactly how rapid calcium signals reach chloroplasts and how they are linked to jasmonic-acid-mediated defense was largely unknown. LMU researchers led by professors Hans-Henning Kunz and Christian Grimm have now shown that specific cation channels known as PECs play an important role in connecting the two processes.
The channels mediate rapid cation fluxes into chloroplasts, which the team was able to record directly for the first time via electrophysiological measurements on isolated organelles from the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana. Intriguingly, jasmonic acid synthesis activated by herbivores or pathogens increases the production of PEC channels within a few hours, and PEC levels remain elevated for several days. The work is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Lab-grown nerves match human sensory signal speeds, enabling tests of myelin repair
Rice University and collaborators in Switzerland have developed a platform to grow human-derived nerve cells and Schwann cells, supporting cells that form a protective coating called myelin around nerve fibers. This platform enables the formation of functional myelin in a three-dimensional, lab-grown environment. Researchers confirmed that it worked by measuring an increase in the speed of electrical signals traveling across networks of connected nerve cells.
Developed at Rice and ETH Zurich, the platform combines human-derived cells, tissue-like materials and electrical measurements in one system. Because nerves contain many cell types and can be difficult to access without damage, researchers can use the model to study how myelin develops, how injury or exposure to toxins affects it and whether drugs or electrical stimulation can prevent its loss or promote repair. The platform can also be adapted to model the brain and measure complex cellular processes. The study was published Aug. 26 in Advanced Healthcare Materials.
“While the formation of myelin is exciting to see, we are even more excited that it is functional and changes how the nerve communicates,” said Christina Tringides, corresponding author and assistant professor of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice.
Integrative Multi-Omics Approaches in Cancer Research: From Biological Networks to Clinical Subtypes
Living organisms experience millions of signals transferred every second between cells, tissues, organs, and external environmental stimuli. Fine-tuned responses at various degrees and scales within the human body are central to the homeostatic mechanism that copes with potentially harmful environmental perturbations, including pathogens, smoking, and drugs, and interacts with the genetic background arising from spontaneous somatic mutations and numerous germline variants. Thus, a holistic view of homeostatic mechanisms through the study of genomic and epigenetic aberrations is needed to understand the core of cancer biology and the pathophysiological features of cancer during oncogenesis and tumor progression.
A multi-omics study is a data-driven scientific investigation that analyzes a range of high-dimensional datasets at multiple levels and scales to reveal the complexity of cells and their environment. Such type of study can provide novel frameworks to untangle biological phenomena or models to test certain hypotheses using various datasets. In cancer research, a paradigm shift toward multi-omics approaches has been achieved with the recent development of high-throughput technologies in genomics and transcriptomics, increasing effort in large-scale research collaboration, and advancement of computational algorithms (Basu et al., 2013; Berns and Bernards, 2012; Cancer Genome Atlas Network, 2012b; Gentles and Gallahan, 2011; Whitehurst et al., 2007). Together with advances in genomics and transcriptomics, proteomics is emerging as a prominent field to elucidate the dynamics of gene activity. Large-scale proteomic research, such as that promoted by the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC), has uncovered the ubiquitous link of biomolecules to the environment and disease status (Gillette et al., 2020; Krug et al., 2020; Mertins et al., 2016; Mun et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2016). Such a transition has extensively deepened our knowledge on the function of driver genes and proteins and has provided a comprehensive understanding of the signaling networks occurring between cells, tissues, organs, and the entire organism. Multi-omics approaches have been applied to numerous clinical studies for better identification of clinical subtypes or drug resistance, prediction of effective combination therapies, and identification of predictive biomarkers to increase the response rate to targeted treatments.
In this review, we introduce the concept of multi-omics approaches in cancer research and provide useful resources for this. We focus on some of the clinical and basic science studies that have benefited from the use of a multi-omics approach to uncover novel concepts and properties. We also discuss some of the challenges connected to multi-omics approaches and how this relatively young field of study can have a positive impact on cancer research.
