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Oct 8, 2024

Therapy could boost lifespan by 25pc

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, food, life extension

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School have identified interleukin-11 (IL11) as a key factor in the ageing process. Elevated IL11 levels lead to fat accumulation and muscle loss—two major indicators of ageing. Inhibiting IL11 could enhance healthy lifespans.

Ageing populations pose significant health and economic challenges globally. Even a one-year increase in life expectancy could be valued at $38 trillion.

In a study published in Nature, the team demonstrated that anti-IL11 therapy not only counters the harmful effects of ageing but also increases lifespan by up to 25% in preclinical models. The therapy shifts metabolism from generating harmful white fat to beneficial brown fat, which helps burn calories and maintain body temperature.

Oct 8, 2024

Qualcomm Urges OEMs to Patch Critical DSP and WLAN Flaws Amid Active Exploits

Posted by in category: futurism

Qualcomm fixes 20 vulnerabilities, including actively exploited CVE-2024–43047 in DSP, urging fast OEM updates.

Oct 8, 2024

New Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks Across 100 Countries

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

New Gorilla botnet launches over 300,000 DDoS attacks globally, exploiting IoT devices and Apache Hadoop flaws.

Oct 8, 2024

Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks Costing Businesses Up to $186 Billion Annually

Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, economics, finance, robotics/AI

Organizations are losing between $94 — $186 billion annually to vulnerable or insecure APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and automated abuse by bots. That’s according to The Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks report from Imperva, a Thales company. The report highlights that these security threats account for up to 11.8% of global cyber events and losses, emphasizing the escalating risks they pose to businesses worldwide.

Drawing on a comprehensive study conducted by the Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Intelligence Center, the report analyzes over 161,000 unique cybersecurity incidents. The findings demonstrate a concerning trend: the threats posed by vulnerable or insecure APIs and automated abuse by bots are increasingly interconnected and prevalent. Imperva warns that failing to address security risks associated with these threats could lead to substantial financial and reputational damage.

Oct 8, 2024

Google Blocks Unsafe Android App Sideloading in India for Improved Fraud Protection

Posted by in category: security

Google’s new security pilot in India automatically blocks sideloading of risky Android apps, protecting users from malicious installs.

Oct 8, 2024

FDA-Approved Antidepressant Treats Incurable Brain Cancer in Preclinical Trial

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

A widely available and inexpensive antidepressant drug may soon save lives from an altogether different kind of disease.

The growth of the most aggressive and deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, was effectively suppressed in both ex vivo human tissue samples and in living mice by an FDA approved serotonin modulator currently used to treat major depression.

It’s not a cure, but it may offer some relief and constitute an effective part of a treatment regime for glioblastoma patients. Human clinical trials are the next step; patients are cautioned against self-medicating at this stage.

Oct 8, 2024

Plant-based diets and urological health

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

Plant-based diets have grown in popularity owing to multiple health and environmental benefits.


Here, the authors describe the evidence concerning plant-based dietary patterns and omnivorous diets with reduced consumption of animal-based food and increased consumption of plant-based foods and their associations with the most common urological cancers and benign urological conditions.

Oct 7, 2024

Inside the Zoo: A Rare and Life-Preserving Cheetah Surgery

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

National Zoo And Conservation Biology Institute

With the help of 3D modeling technology, a team of veterinary experts successfully carried out a rare spinal surgery on an 11-month-old cheetah cub at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in August.

Oct 7, 2024

New algorithm could reduce energy requirements of AI systems by up to 95 percent

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Researchers have developed an algorithm that could dramatically reduce the energy consumption of artificial intelligence systems.

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Scientists at BitEnergy AI created a method called “Linear-complexity multiplication” (L-Mul) that replaces complex floating-point multiplications in AI models with simpler integer additions.

Oct 7, 2024

Can AI have common sense? Finding out will be key to achieving machine intelligence

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The advent of LLMs has reopened a debate about the limits of machine intelligence — and requires new benchmarks of what reasoning consists of.

One milestone along that journey is the demonstration of machine common sense.

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