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Scientists used genetically modified bacteria to simultaneously create and color fabric in a one-pot method. Compared to current methods that rely on fossil fuels, this new technology provides a simpler and more sustainable way to produce colored fabrics.In a new study published Nov. 12 in the journal Trends in Biotechnology, researchers created cellulose-based fabrics that span the colors of the rainbow by varying the conditions used to grow bacteria.Synthetic fibers “are highly dependent on chemical synthesis and post-processing steps, which are energy-intensive, labor-intensive, and harmful to the environment,” said study lead author Sang Yeop Lee, a professor in the Department…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Friday that five people have pleaded guilty to enabling fraud against information technology (IT) workers and supporting North Korea’s illegal revenue-generating scheme in violation of international sanctions. The 5 persons are listed below – Audrikas Fagnasey, 24 years old Jason Salazar, 30 years old Alexander Paul Travis, 34 years old Oleksandr Didenko, 28 years old Eric Ntekeleze Prince, 30 years old Fagnasay, Salazar, and Travis pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud conspiracy for knowingly causing IT workers residing outside the United States to use U.S. identities to secure jobs at U.S.…
When you look up at the night sky, space may seem like a vast expanse of darkness. But are some regions darker than others? Where are the darkest places in the solar system, and on a larger scale, the universe?So the answer isn’t easy and depends on who you ask, experts told Live Science.True darkness, the blackest black, is surprisingly rare and difficult to pinpoint. This is because there is a lot of dust in space. Dust scatters light, making the universe shine far beyond the stars, astronomer Mark Postman of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore told…
After a year of frenzied trading and rumors of an upcoming IPO, financial scrutiny of OpenAI has intensified. Leaked documents obtained by technology blogger Ed Zitron shed more light on OpenAI’s financials, specifically its revenue and computing costs over the past few years. Zitron reported this week that Microsoft will receive $493.8 million in revenue sharing from OpenAI in 2024. In the first three quarters of 2025, that number jumped to $865.8 million, according to documents he reviewed. OpenAI is reportedly sharing 20% of its revenue with Microsoft as part of a previous deal in which the software giant invested…
Tesla has released its most detailed study yet on the performance and relative safety of its advanced driver assistance software, just weeks after Waymo co-CEO Tekdra Mawakana called on companies to release more data at TechCrunch Disrupt. In a new section of its website, Tesla claims that in North America, owners using the company’s fully self-driving (supervised) software drive about 5 million miles before a major crash and about 1.5 million miles before a minor crash. This is a much lower rate than the national average based on statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). According to…
Let’s be honest: Most tech wearables are bulky and not exactly beautiful. But when you wear something on a regular basis, you probably want it to look good and even match your other jewelry. That’s the idea behind Oura’s latest smart ring, Oura Ring 4 Ceramic. Ring 4 Ceramic is Oura’s first collection of smart rings without a metal finish. Instead, it’s made from a more wear-resistant zirconia ceramic, which Oura says provides both style and comfort. I’ve been testing the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic over the past three weeks. My impressions are shown below. But before we get into…
November 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Threat Intelligence The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage their malicious payloads. NVISO researchers Bart Parys, Stef Collart, and Efstratios Lontzetidis said in a Thursday report that “attackers have recently been using JSON storage services such as JSON Keeper, JSONsilo, and npoint.io to host and distribute malware from trojanized code projects.” The campaign essentially approaches potential targets on professional networking sites such as LinkedIn under the pretext of conducting a job evaluation or collaborating on a project, and as part of…
A New Jersey man has died in the first recorded death from alpha-gal syndrome, a meat allergy caused by tick bites.In September 2024, a 47-year-old man collapsed and lost consciousness about four hours after eating a hamburger at a barbecue, doctors wrote in a case report. Despite attempts by the man’s son and paramedics to resuscitate him, he was pronounced dead later that night after being taken to hospital.The authors of the case report, who published details of the case in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Practice on Thursday (Nov. 13), write that it is important to…
According to OpenAI, ChatGPT will remove all dashes when directed to do so. These signs, which appear to signal text written by AI, have popped up everywhere in recent months, including school newspapers, emails, comments, customer service chats, LinkedIn posts, online forums, and ad copy. The inclusion of the em dash led people to criticize these writers for being lazy and relying on AI chatbots to do their work. Of course, there are many people who argue for the em dash, saying it was part of the sentence long before LLM adopted the punctuation mark. But the fact that chatbots…
An astrophotographer has captured a stunning shot of a falling skydiver matching perfectly with the sun’s fiery surface. A flying adventurer appears to be rolling through the vacuum of space in front of our home planet.Andrew McCarthy, an Arizona-based astrophotographer who specializes in photographing the sun, snapped the unlikely photo around 9 a.m. MST (11 a.m. ET) on Saturday (November 8). The photo, dubbed “The Fall of Icarus,” required an “absolutely ridiculous” level of planning and “may be the first of its kind in existence,” McCarthy wrote in a post on social platform X.The skydiver in the image is YouTuber…