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India has backed away from a plan to force smartphone makers to pre-install government apps on all devices, following backlash and growing concerns that the mandate would give the state greater access to users’ devices and weaken privacy protections. India’s telecom ministry said Wednesday that anti-theft and cybersecurity protection app Sanchar Saathi will remain optional and smartphone manufacturers will no longer be required to preload it on the devices they sell. The new notice effectively rescinds a directive issued to manufacturers last week (and circulated online on Monday) that told manufacturers to include the app on all devices and ensure…
People are more likely to exploit female AI partners than male AI partners, indicating that gender-based discrimination has implications beyond human interactions.A recent study published November 2 in the journal iScience investigated how people’s willingness to cooperate changes when their human or AI partner is not labeled as female, nonbinary, male, or gender.The researchers asked participants to play a well-known thought experiment called the prisoner’s dilemma, a game in which two players choose to cooperate with each other or work independently. If they work together, they will get the best outcome for both parties. you may like However, if one…
December 3, 2025hacker newsCybercrime/Artificial Intelligence Remember when phishing emails were easy to spot? Bad grammar, weird formatting, and a request from a “prince” in a faraway land? Those days are over. Today, a 16-year-old with zero coding skills and $200 in pocket money can launch a campaign that rivals state-sponsored hackers. They don’t have to be smart. All you need to do is subscribe to the right AI tools. We are witnessing the industrialization of cybercrime. Barriers to entry have collapsed and today’s email filters are looking for threats that don’t exist. Watch a live breakdown of AI phishing tools…
Eurofins Medical Device Services is setting new standards with breakthrough GMP PFAS testing and advanced PFAS risk assessments for medical devices. PFAS testing and screening solutions were first developed and commercialized for the medical device industry. This provides insight for medical device manufacturers as they navigate the complex and evolving global regulations surrounding PFAS, ultimately contributing to medical device and patient safety. Importance of PFAS testing for medical devices Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of more than 20,000 compounds that are highly resistant to degradation and have been found to pose potential threats to human health and…
Patient: 32-year-old female living in ShanghaiSymptoms: A woman presented to the hospital with a persistent cough that occasionally produced bloody sputum, and coughed 2 to 3 times a day. She said the cough started four months before she visited the hospital. Then, about a month before the cough started, she developed a fever that lasted several weeks and reached a high of 100.8 degrees Fahrenheit (38.3 degrees Celsius).What happened next: Doctors at the hospital diagnosed the woman with a rare respiratory disease called eosinophilic pneumonia. Eosinophilic pneumonia is an infection in which white blood cells accumulate in the lungs, causing…
The research and teaching programmes at the University of Guelph’s Department of Animal Biosciences underpin the ethical and sustainable production of food and animal products and care of companion animals that enhance human and animal health and wellbeing. The Department of Animal Biosciences (ABSc) – a globally recognised leader in animal health, welfare and sustainable production, within the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) at the University of Guelph – is a leader in innovation and research, driving the agricultural and aquaculture sectors forward. Being the only department of its kind in Ontario and sitting amongst the top animal science departments globally,…
A “super-inflated” exoplanet is leaking massive amounts of helium into space and may be losing much of its atmosphere, new observations show.A large plume of helium gas has been discovered evaporating from a giant planet known as WASP-107b, according to a study based on observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).The results, published Monday (December 1) in the journal Nature Astronomy, show that the gas is spread over an area nearly five times the planet’s diameter, and can be seen hurtling far ahead of the planet along WASP-107b’s orbit. you may like The study represents the first time that…
Most people know the story of Paul Bunyan. Challenges from a giant lumberjack, his trusty axe, and a machine that promises to outdo him. Paul strained and swung harder the way he had before, but still lost a quarter of an inch. His mistake was not losing the contest. His mistake was believing that he could win against new kinds of tools through effort alone. Security professionals are facing similar moments. AI is the modern steam-powered saw. Fast in some areas, unfamiliar in others, and poses many challenges to long-held habits. The instinct is to protect what we know rather…
December 3, 2025Ravi LakshmananMachine learning/vulnerabilities Three serious security flaws have been revealed in an open source utility called Picklescan. This flaw could allow a malicious attacker to load an untrusted PyTorch model and execute arbitrary code, effectively bypassing the tool’s protections. Picklescan, developed and maintained by Matthieu Maitre (@mmaitre314), is a security scanner designed to parse Python pickle files and detect suspicious imports and function calls before they are executed. Pickle is a serialization format widely used in machine learning, including PyTorch, which uses this format to save and load models. However, pickle files can be a major security risk…
December 3, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware / Web3 Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Rust package with malicious functionality that can target Windows, macOS, and Linux systems and covertly run on developers’ machines under the guise of an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) unit helper tool. The Rust crate named “evm-units” was uploaded to crates.io in mid-April 2025 by a user named “ablerust” and has garnered over 7,000 downloads in the past eight months. Another package “uniswap-utils” created by the same author has “evm-units” listed as a dependency. Downloaded over 7,400 times. The package was then removed from the package repository. “Based…