For much of my computer science career, I viewed software vulnerability detection as a craft. The best researchers combine technical skill with intuition: the ability to know whether a software bug was a minor bug or a sign of a more serious vulnerability. For decades, machines found bugs and humans decided which ones mattered. Now,
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Twice a day, the tides ebb and flow through a labyrinth of sandy channels, salt marshes and mangrove forests that flank the 88 islands and islets of Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago (Arquipélago dos Bijagós in Portuguese). Seen from above, the process leads to radical changes in the landscape: during low tide, intertidal mudflats and sand flats
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Technology companies like Google have set up important offices in London.Credit: Tim Robberts/Getty When Mythos, an artificial intelligence model from US firm Anthropic, was rolled out to a limited group of companies earlier this year, rumors quickly circulated about the system’s hacking capabilities and cybersecurity threats. True clarity about the power of the model came
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The parasite that causes diarrhea Cyclospora cayetanensis It reproduces through egg-like structures called oocysts (stained orange in this microscope image).Credit: CDC/DPDx – Melanie Moser A microscopic parasite found in contaminated food products is ruining summer meals across the United States in the largest outbreak of its kind in the country’s history. And health officials have
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SpaceX canceled its first Starship launch since its massive initial public offering in June. On Thursday, SpaceX withdrew from a launch attempt of its upgraded Starship rocket after an engine problem caused an automatic shutdown before liftoff at the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas. CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X that
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