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A truck accident in Mississippi resulted in lab monkeys, initially thought to be carrying various diseases, escaping from the truck and law enforcement officers killing numerous animals. However, it is still unclear how dangerous they are.On Tuesday (Oct. 28), a truck carrying Tulane University’s rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) overturned in Jasper County, unleashing several macaques, but the exact number has not yet been reported.As of this writing, three monkeys are still at large, according to the latest information from the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department. Authorities believed the monkeys were aggressive toward humans and could transmit herpes, COVID-19, and hepatitis C,…
Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levy doesn’t think AI agents will replace enterprise SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies. Rather, he believes the more likely future is a hybrid combination of SaaS and agents, he said, speaking on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Wednesday. “Typically, once you create a business process, you want to be able to effectively define that process in business logic with a deterministic system, because there is a very high risk that that process will change on the same day,” Levie explained. “If you’re doing something mission-critical, we’ve already seen great examples where data is leaked…
Waymo and Zoox robotaxis have become a common sight on the streets of San Francisco, and soon Uber will be in the city as well through partnerships with Lucid and Nuro. That’s exactly what San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie likes. “I think we should be a test bed for emerging technologies, AI, healthcare technologies, all of those things,” Lurie said Wednesday on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. “We have always been and, under my leadership, we will continue to lead and focus.” Lurie added that he is proud of Alphabet’s self-driving technology company Waymo’s success in the Bay Area.…
Peter Williams, former general manager of defense contractor L3Harris, has pleaded guilty to selling surveillance technology to Russian brokers who purchase “cyber tools,” the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed Wednesday. “This material, stolen over a three-year period from a U.S. defense contractor for which he worked, consisted of national security-focused software containing at least eight classified and protected cyber exploit components,” a Department of Justice press release on Wednesday said. “These parts were intended to be sold exclusively to the U.S. government and some allied nations.” TechCrunch previously exclusively reported, citing four former Trenchant employees, that the company was investigating…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is coming! If you’re still on the fence about attending in person, join us for the extensive schedule of speakers, networking opportunities, workshops, afterparties, and more available here. There’s still time to buy last-minute tickets. There’s only one day left, so we’re offering you a 50% discount. If you can’t attend in person, the next best thing is to check out the Disrupt Stage livestream. The stage will feature some of the most prominent speakers and the highly anticipated Startup Battlefield 200 pitch competition. We’re streaming via YouTube, so you can watch the embed below or click…
Nvidia, the biggest beneficiary of the ongoing AI boom, became the first publicly traded company to cross the $5 trillion market capitalization milestone. The company’s shares rose more than 5.6% to $212.19 on Wednesday following news Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump said he planned to discuss the company’s Blackwell chip with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. Investors will likely also be excited that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Tuesday that the company expects sales of AI chips to be $500 billion and is building seven new supercomputers that will require thousands of Nvidia GPUs for the United States…
October 29, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerabilities / Internet of Things Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a surge in automated attacks targeting PHP servers, IoT devices, and cloud gateways from various botnets such as Mirai, Gafgyt, and Mozi. “These automated campaigns exploit known CVE vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations to take control of exposed systems and expand botnet networks,” Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The cybersecurity firm said PHP servers have emerged as the most prominent target for these attacks due to the widespread use of content management systems such as WordPress and Craft CMS.…
Brain inflammation may be caused by a gene on the X chromosome, a new study in mice suggests.And in female mice, which have two X chromosomes, a diabetes drug called metformin may be effective at reducing inflammation.If these findings are confirmed in future studies, they could help solve the long-standing mystery of why women with two copies of this inflammation-inducing gene are more susceptible to certain autoimmune diseases, especially after menopause. you may like Gender disparityOur bodies are patrolled by immune cells that protect us from bacteria and viruses, but in some cases these defenses can attack us. For example,…
South Korean researchers have built an artificial muscle that can lift about 4,000 times its own weight. The technology can also be applied to future humanoid robots.A key advance in muscle design is that it can be made flexible or tense as needed, a first for this field of research. The scientists outlined their findings in a study published Sept. 7 in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.”This study overcomes the fundamental limitations of conventional artificial muscles, which are either highly elastic but weak, or strong but stiff,” said the study’s lead author, Hung Eui Jeong, a professor of mechanical engineering…
October 29, 2025Ravi LakshmananMachine learning/AI safety Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new security issue in agent web browsers such as OpenAI ChatGPT Atlas that exposes the underlying artificial intelligence (AI) model to context poisoning attacks. The attack, devised by AI security firm SPLX, allows malicious attackers to set up websites that serve different content to browsers and AI crawlers run by ChatGPT and Perplexity. This technology is code-named cloaking for AI. This approach is a type of search engine cloaking, which refers to the practice of displaying one version of a web page to users and displaying another version to…