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Over 116,000 Minecraft systems infected in WeedHack malware campaign

A large-scale malware campaign dubbed WeedHack is targeting Minecraft players and has infected more than 116,000 systems since January.

The malware is distributed through Minecraft-related malicious mods, clients, cheats, and utilities that are promoted over YouTube and SEO (search engine optimization) poisoning.

WeedHack works as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) infostealer operation that offers a dashboard for customers to see stolen credentials and information on compromised systems.

The Deliverome Project

Congratulations to the team of on their launch! This new Focused Research Organization aims to “building an open atlas of the human surfaceome — abundance, specificity, internalization, and routing — to scale targeted delivery beyond the liver.” I’m excited to see the impact this FRO has, particularly on the gene therapy world!


An open receptor atlas for targeted delivery beyond the liver, integrating abundance, specificity, internalization, and routing.

Authorities struggle to stop AI tools generating nude images without consent

There has been a sharp rise in so-called “nudification” technology. These AI-powered tools can generate realistic fake images and videos that depict people as undressed, often without their knowledge or consent. William Brangham reports on the growing concern over the technology and the efforts underway to rein it in.

Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.

Brain cells fine-tuned to disappointment may inspire new therapies for depression and addiction

University of Oregon neuroscientists have identified a group of brain cells that essentially act as a “disappointment meter,” announcing when reality is falling short of expectations.

In a study published in Current Biology, the researchers describe a specific group of neurons in the mouse brain that become active when the animal anticipates a reward but earns less than expected, or nothing at all. The findings reveal that feeling let down is something that particular cells in the brain are designed to detect and record.

New RNA sequencing method reveals hidden layer of immune system control

Researchers at University Medical Center Utrecht have uncovered a previously underappreciated mechanism that helps immune cells to respond rapidly to infections. Using advanced long-read RNA sequencing, the team shows that alternative RNA splicing, which means how genes are edited into different messenger RNA variants, plays a central role in shaping immune responses. The findings provide new insights into immune-mediated diseases (such as infections, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus) and may open the door to more targeted therapies.

The study, published in Nature Communications, focused on monocytes, a type of innate immune cell that acts as a first responder to pathogens. When these cells encounter bacterial components such as cell wall components, they must quickly adapt to mount an effective defense. While earlier research has largely examined changes in overall gene expression, this study zoomed in on RNA isoforms, the different transcript variants that a single gene can produce.

Using long-read RNA sequencing, researchers at the Center for Translational Immunology (University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands) generated a comprehensive map of full-length RNA transcripts in human monocytes before and after activation. They identified more than 24,000 isoforms, of which the majority have never been described, revealing a previously hidden layer of molecular complexity.

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Tech Whistleblower: You Only Have 3 Years Left Before It Hits! — Mo Gawdat

AI Expert Mo Gawdat returns to The Diary Of A CEO to reveal why AGI has already arrived, why 30% of jobs will disappear by 2027, and why the most dangerous thing about AI isn’t the technology — it’s the people in charge of it.

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer at Google X, founder of One Billion Happy, and co-founder of Emma. Love. He is a 4x international bestselling author, and his upcoming book ‘Alive: A Human’s Guide to Living in the World of AI’, will be released in October 2026.

He explains:
◾How AI can give you a 400-point IQ boost, and why most people are wasting it.
◾ Why Mo actually wants a machine smarter than all of humanity to take control.
◾Why Sam Altman said AI will \.

Deep brain stimulation induces white matter remodeling and functional changes to brain-wide networks

In a nonhuman primate model, Fujimoto et al. show that deep brain stimulation promotes white matter remodeling and reorganizes brain-wide functional networks, detailing a mechanism through which this neuromodulation therapy may treat depression.

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