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IMF chief warns global monetary system not ready for AI cyber threats

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IMF chief warns global monetary system not ready for AI cyber threats

Anthropic announced on April 7 that it was limiting the release of its new “Mythos” model over risks posed by its unprecedented ability to rapidly identify security vulnerabilities [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS The global monetary system is not prepared to address artificial intelligence’s rapidly escalating risks, the IMF managing director warned Sunday, as a…

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OpenAI identifies security issue involving third-party tool, says user data was not accessed

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OpenAI identifies security issue involving third-party tool, says user data was not accessed

According to OpenAI, ‌Axios, a widely used third-party developer library, was compromised on March 31 [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS OpenAI said on Friday it had identified a security ​issue involving a third-party developer tool called Axios ‌and is taking steps to protect the ​process that certifies its macOS applications ⁠are legitimate OpenAI apps. The…

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Alexis Carrel’s Nobel-winning work in vascular repair and transplantation

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Alexis Carrel’s Nobel-winning work in vascular repair and transplantation

Alexis Carrel’s work showed how damaged vessels could be repaired and even replaced, laying the foundation for modern organ transplantation | Photo Credit:  Photo Credit: Soumyadip Sinha The 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Alexis Carrel “in recognition of his work on vascular suturing and the transplantation of blood vessels and…

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Call to quantify bat poop nutrition for crops

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Call to quantify bat poop nutrition for crops

Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto GUWAHATI A report on bats in India has recommended a systematic quantification of guano, or accumulated bat poop, and its nutritional value compared to existing bio-fertilisers. Farmers in India do not fancy guano as an alternative to chemical fertilisers as much as their counterparts…

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Study unravels why men experience more skin infections than women

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Study unravels why men experience more skin infections than women

A colorised scanning electron micrograph of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, shown in gold, interacting with a human neutrophil, in red. | Photo Credit: NIAID Men experience more skin infections than women — doctors have known this for a while. They have proposed both behavioural and physiological reasons for this difference but the exact mechanism…

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Prototype fast breeder reactor | Nuclear paradox

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Prototype fast breeder reactor | Nuclear paradox

A massive turbine-generator of the 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR), in Kalpakkam. | Photo Credit: R. Ragu A fast breeder reactor (FBR) gets its name from two features. First, it ‘breeds’ more nuclear fuel than it consumes. Second, it uses fast neutrons — ones that haven’t been slowed — to initiate nuclear fission….

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