techtimes

First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...
Yahoo

Porcupine Turns the Tables on a Hungry Python

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June 2015, an African Rock Python branched out from its usual diet and swallowed a porcupine, per CNN. Unfortunately, eating ...
The Guardian

Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners’

Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was ‘appropriate’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news ...
Security Boulevard

RDS Optimized Writes: 2x MySQL and MariaDB Write Throughput, the Incompatibility Error Explained, and the IOPS Cost Angle Nobody Covers

RDS Optimized Writes is one of the few AWS features that genuinely delivers its headline claim with no caveats on pricing: up to 2x write throughput at no additional cost. There is no surcharge, no ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...
FierceBiotech

Create Medicines fashions $122M fundraise for in vivo CAR-T dreams

As the wave of in vivo CAR-T hype crests, Create Medicines is catching the swell with a $122 million series B meant to back its early pipeline of autoimmune and cancer candidates. Originally launched ...
STAT

CREATE Medicines, a biotech company developing CAR-T therapies, raises $122 million

Allison covers what hot startups are getting up to, and who’s financing them. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, “The Readout Loud.” You can reach Allison on Signal at AllisonDeAngelis ...
TechCrunch

Google’s ‘Create My Widget’ feature will let you vibe-code your own widgets

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new “Create My Widget” feature for Android that allows users to vibe-code their own custom widgets. The feature will first launch on the latest Samsung Galaxy and Google ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...
MassLive

Judge allows Karen Read to use fired investigator’s texts in forthcoming lawsuit

DEDHAM — A Norfolk Superior Court judge cleared the way for Karen Read to use what her lawyers have dubbed racist and homophobic text messages on former Massachusetts State Police trooper Michael ...
Business Insider

I teach at Harvard and encourage my students to use AI on every assignment. They just have to follow my ground rules.

I still remember the November when ChatGPT came out, and the exam period that followed. As a professor at Harvard, I had B+ writers submitting essays with em dashes and Oxford commas, as if they had ...