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Facebook’s parent company Meta recently stopped an ongoing malware campaign targeting multiple companies on the internet. Malware families detected and disrupted by the tech giant included Ducktail and the newly identified NodeStealer. They targeted people through malicious browser extensions, ads,…

Ozempic may cause weight loss in people with type 2 diabetes Florian Gartner/Phototek/Getty Images Ozempic and Wegovy are brand names for the drug semaglutide. Many countries have approved Wegovy for weight loss in obese or overweight people and Ozempic for…

Supermicro this week launched the listing of the industry’s first commercial servers based on Intel’s Data Center GPU Max ‘Ponte Vecchio’ compute GPUs. The machine uses Ponte Vecchio in add-in board and OAM module form factors for high-performance computing and…

May 4, 2023Rabbi LakshmananServer security/vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a way to exploit a recently disclosed critical flaw in the PaperCut server in a way that bypasses all current detections. This issue, tracked as CVE-2023-27350 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects PaperCut…

Editor’s Note (5/3/23): The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved GSK’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for adults age 60 and older—the first approved vaccine for this disease. The road to its development was long and bumpy but ultimately…

The bigger it is, the harder it is to fall Years ago, it was suggested that as HDDs and the RAID arrays they are part of grow in size, there will come a time when eliminating bad bits will be…

Brightline, a pediatric mental health provider, warned patients that a data breach occurred on January 30th, affecting 783,606 people. Brightline posted a notice on its website earlier this week, saying the breach was related to a zero-day vulnerability in its…

Let’s say you don’t have to fly very far. What about jet engines? These are mostly found on commercial airliners, but very small jet engines can also be used to make actual jetpacks. Much like a rocket, a jet engine…

May 4, 2023Rabbi LakshmananAPI management / vulnerabilities Three new security flaws have been revealed in the Microsoft Azure API Management service. It can be exploited by malicious actors to access sensitive information and backend services. According to Israeli cloud security…

Plaques of amyloid protein build up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients nobeastsofierce science/alamy A drug called donanemab has been shown to slow cognitive decline in people with early Alzheimer’s disease by 35%. However, there have been mixed reactions to…