How Sugar and Sedentary Lifestyle Affects Men
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Simple lifestyle changes that will help reduce stress
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Mayo Clinic is Using AI to Listen to Emergency Room Visits
Mayo Clinic, the massive U.S. hospital network, is using what it describes as “Ambient Listening” to record patient interactions with nurses, including in emergency rooms, then using AI to process that collected data. The recording is opt-out, rather than opt-in, and at least some patients are likely not aware the recording is happening. The recording…
DOGE Cuts Unleashed a Deadly Wave of Violence Across Africa, Study Finds
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. The sudden shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by DOGE in 2025 is associated with a rise in violent conflicts across Africa, according to a study published…
Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users’ Poops
A few weeks ago, I came across a wild post on Reddit’s r/DHExchange, a subreddit for trading large datasets: “I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what’s [sic] you expect…150k stools images.” The post, made by a user called Ill_Car_7351, was advertising exactly what it sounds like: A database of poop images,…
May’s Patch Tuesday hauls out 132 CVEs
With advisories, this month’s count approaches 300 – though many are already in place Categories: Threat Research, X-ops Tags: Patch Tuesday, MICROSOFT PATCH TUESDAY
Why AMOS matters: The macOS malware stealing data at scale
Sophos X-Ops looks at the Atomic macOS Stealer and its capabilities Categories: Threat Research Tags: MacOS, AMOS, infostealer
At Least We Know the Washington Post Isn’t Buying Views
An eon ago, in the year 2012, an editor at my first job at U.S. News and World Report had the idea that we should have a YouTube channel. It wasn’t a pivot to video, exactly, but it would be a bet on an emerging platform where some creators were beginning to go viral with…
War and Data Centers Are Driving Up the Cost of Fiber Optic Cable
Fiber-optic cable has become a staple of drone war. From Ukraine to the Sahel, combatants are fielding quadcopters piloted via kilometer-long lengths of cable that allows operators to control them across vast distances while insulating the drone from being knocked from the sky. This technique was once a cheap way for militaries to beat their…
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
Tech company executives are confident that AI will completely transform the economy and point to the changes they see in-house to prove that this change is coming fast. At Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others, leadership says that AI generates a growing share of the overall code, which makes it cheaper and faster to produce. The…
Podcast: The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams
We start this week with Joseph’s story about how we obtained Haotian AI, a sought-after piece of realtime video deepfake software that lets you turn into anyone else during Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, or Zoom calls. After the break, Matthew tells us about some insane Yu-Gi-Oh trading card drama. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains how…
Sophos Endpoint in action: Blocking a novel supply chain attack
How the unique anti-exploitation capabilities included with Sophos Endpoint blocked a supply chain attack. Categories: Products & Services Tags: Endpoint, Sophos Endpoint, Exploits