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Italy knows a thing or two about what the United States faces—but there are key differences between the two countries’ experiences.... Read more

Plus: An “AI granny” is wasting scammers’ time, a lawsuit goes after spyware-maker NSO Group’s executives, and North Korea–linked hackers take a crack at macOS malware.... Read more

A novel test enables real-time monitoring of T cells that have been engineered to fight cancer, after re-introduction into the body of a cancer patient. This simple and innovative test provides clinicians with the ability to track the function of these cancer-fighting cells over the course of the treatment.... Read more

Researchers have discovered a significant association between specific Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) variants and nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). NPC is a cancer notably prevalent in southern China, where it is 20 times more common than in non-endemic regions of the world.... Read more

A recent study unveiled a key enzyme involved in producing selenoproteins, opening new strategies for treating certain types of cancer in children.... Read more

Scientists have created a new 'biocooperative' material based on blood, which has shown to successfully repair bones, paving the way for personalised regenerative blood products that could be used as effective therapies to treat injury and disease.... Read more

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Every journalist has favorite topics. Regular Checkup readers might already know some of mine, which include the quest to delay or reverse human... Read more

Speed climbing in Saudi Arabia, wildfires in California and New Jersey, a blanket of smog in New Delhi, a celebration of rural life in Turkey, Veterans Day in Seattle, and much more... Read more

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How this grassroots effort could make AI voices more diverse We are on the cusp of a voice AI boom, as tech companies roll out the next generation... Read more

The Israeli high command now sees all of its conflicts as elements of a single, multifront war with Iran.... Read more

We are on the cusp of a voice AI boom, with tech companies such as Apple and OpenAI rolling out the next generation of artificial-intelligence-powered assistants. But the default voices for these assistants are often white American—British, if you’re lucky—and most definitely speak English. They represent only a tiny proportion... Read more

And what it means for the future of Palestinians and Israelis... Read more

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind” We don’t know exactly how AI works, or why it works so well. That’s a problem:... Read more

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s time for a party—the Conference of the Parties, that is. Talks kicked off this week at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running for a couple of weeks... Read more

Experts expect Donald Trump’s next administration to relax cybersecurity rules on businesses, abandon concerns around human rights, and take an aggressive stance against the cyber armies of US adversaries.... Read more

AI has led to breakthroughs in drug discovery and robotics and is in the process of entirely revolutionizing how we interact with machines and the web. The only problem is we don’t know exactly how it works, or why it works so well. We have a fair idea, but the... Read more

Alan Filion, believed to have operated under the handle “Torswats,” admitted to making more than 375 fake threats against schools, places of worship, and government buildings around the United States.... Read more

Three technologists in India used a homemade Faraday cage and a microwave oven to get around Apple’s location blocks.... Read more

The complexity of biology has long been a double-edged sword for scientific and medical progress. On one hand, the intricacy of systems (like the human immune response) offers countless opportunities for breakthroughs in medicine and healthcare. On the other hand, that very complexity has often stymied researchers, leaving some of... Read more

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI Back in 2022, the tech community was buzzing over image-generating AI models, such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and... Read more

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement put out a fresh call for contracts for surveillance technologies before an anticipated surge in the number of people it monitors ahead of deportation hearings.... Read more

Ben Zhao remembers well the moment he officially jumped into the fight between artists and generative AI: when one artist asked for AI bananas.  A computer security researcher at the University of Chicago, Zhao had made a name for himself by building tools to protect images from facial recognition technology.... Read more

The Ukrainians need the resources to fight, and time is running short.... Read more

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Generative AI taught a robot dog to scramble around a new environment Teaching robots to navigate new environments is tough. You can train them on physical, real-world data... Read more

Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed.... Read more

Are You Ransomware Aware? The No. 1 Cybersecurity Threat that You Cannot Afford to IgnoreThe No. 1 Cybersecurity Threat that You Cannot Afford to Ignore... Read more

Don’t Wait for Them to Find You: What You Need to Know Today About Nation-State Threat ActorsDisinformation is a known tool for nation-state threat actors. Learn what it means for threat intelligence practitioners.What You Need to Know Today About Nation-State Threat Actors... Read more

Preparing for Post-Intrusion RansomwareThis evolving and brutally effective threat can have a significant impact on an organization’s resources, finances, and reputation, but it can be stoppedThis evolving and brutally effective threat can have a significant impact on an organization’s resources, finances, and reputation, but it can be stopped... Read more

Details on BRONZE VINEWOOD, Implicated in Targeting of the U.S. Election Campaign The likely China-based targeted threat group has been active since at least 2017, using a combination of custom and native tools to steal data from its targets... Read more

Counter Threat Unit Researchers Publish Threat Group DefinitionsThe goals of sharing these profiles are to provide insight into CTU characterizations, encourage feedback, and promote discussions within the security community.The goals of sharing these profiles are to provide insight into CTU characterizations, encourage feedback, and promote discussions within the security community.... Read more

By Jessica Kent March 18, 2020 - Before the world was even conscious of the threat posed by COVID-19, artificial intelligence had detected the beginnings of the outbreak. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page, updated twice daily by Xtelligent Healthcare Media. On December 30, 2019, researchers from BlueDot, a... Read more

The space, which also serves as the agency's office, has membership plans for all types of independent and freelance creatives, and is designed to help increase collaboration and boost business opportunities for members. ... Read more

Northrop Grumman Corp. has opened its expanded Chandler campus as the home for its aerospace launch vehicle business. The 633,000-square-foot campus supports national defense and aerospace projects, including the U.S. missile defense program and satellite launches for the U.S. Air Force, NASA and commercial customers. The bulk of the company’s... Read more

Nate Sachs walked the talk until losing a fierce battle with cancer on Nov. 12. His financial adviser firm, Blueprints for Tomorrow, helped business owners prepare for the unexpected. Sachs, who passed away peacefully surrounded by his family Tuesday morning, made it his mission to help business owners create contingency... Read more

The move will take one of the Valley's largest publicly traded companies into 300,000 square feet of space. ... Read more

The Cambria Hotel Downtown Phoenix on Roosevelt Row has recruited an award-winning chef from Chicago to run its new restaurant, which is set to open Nov. 26. The hotel restaurant, which will be open to both Cambria guests and the general public, will be called Poppy and have a menu... Read more

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IT IS the summer of 1979 and Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the everyman-hero of John Updike’s series of novels, is running a car showroom in Brewer, Pennsylvania. There is a pervasive mood of decline. Local textile mills have closed. Gas prices are soaring. No one wants the traded-in, Detroit-made cars clogging... Read more

THE question of who would replace Sergio Marchionne has been in the air for a year or more, ever since the chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) announced that he would step down in 2019. But the way the answer came was both shocking and sad. Mr Marchionne’s death,... Read more

OPEN a toolbox, pull out a spanner and you may be holding a bit of the answer to global warming: vanadium, a metal named after Vanadis, the Scandinavian goddess of beauty. Used mostly in alloys to strengthen steel, its appearance may not live up to the romance of its name.... Read more