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Aysu Biçer 10 July 2026•Update: 10 July 2026 Cybersecurity experts are warning that criminals are using artificial intelligence to launch more convincing cyberattacks, making it easier to target businesses and organizations. Finnish cybersecurity officials say threats remain at a high level, with phishing, ransomware, account theft and supply-chain attacks among the most common dangers, according…
Key Takeaway on How Whales Die: Some whales die naturally of old age after surprisingly long lives. Certain whales can live to be 80 years old, while others can live to about 200 years old. After a whale dies, its carcass becomes a vital food source for marine ecosystems. Some creatures can even feed off…
One central theme in this year’s Siggraph programming slate is research that harnesses the same tools used in films, games, and visual effects to design, train, and deploy real-world robots, as the field of robotics continues to expand. “Shall We Dance? Resonance of Intentions with an embodied agent based on the Free Energy Principle” introduces…
There’s a new record holder for the most distant supermassive black hole. A newly spotted quasar — a black hole that is gobbling matter so quickly it glows white-hot — sends light from just 662 million years after the Big Bang, astronomers report July 6 in Astronomy & Astrophysics. The previous record holder, discovered in…
Unitree’s G1 humanoid robots perform live porcine laparoscopic cholecystectomies. Photo: Screenshot of a study published in Nature A US research team has used Unitree G1 humanoid robot to successfully perform standard laparoscopic cholecystectomies on two live pigs, during which the robot is teleoperated to manipulate manual laparoscopic instruments, according to a study published in Nature…
Cortical Labs would like to sell you a brain in a box. It’ll cost about $35,000, and you can teach it to do all kinds of nifty things. If that’s out of your price range, you can sign up for its ‘Wetware-as-a-Service’ and rent bio-computer processing power from a rack of living tissues welded to…