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A fake browser update served over hijacked hotel Wi-Fi has been used to deliver CornFlake, a remote access trojan (RAT) that can capture webcam images, microphone audio, and keystrokes, Microsoft said in its latest report. Researchers track the operation as CaptiveCrunch and attribute it to Storm-2945. It assesses Storm-2945 to be an operational sub-cluster of Midnight Blizzard, also known as Swati Khandelwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Joël Lapointe objevil v Mapách Google obří kráter kolem jezera Marsal • Odborníci potvrdili kosmický původ struktury staré zhruba 390 milionů let • Nový kráter pojmenovaný Uhackatik patří k největším objevům posledních let

AMD odložila zdražení dodávek balíčků GPU + VRAM, které výrobci grafických karet používají na Radeony RX 9000. Ceny AMD zvýší až pro srpnové dodávky a zdražení dosáhne ≥10 %…

V aktuálním přehledu vývoje renderovacího jádra webového prohlížeče Servo (Wikipedie) bylo oznámeno vydání nové verze 0.4.0. Výrazně se zlepšilo vykreslování stránek jako lichess.org, Zulip nebo Speedtest.

Tento týden jsme pro vás vybrali deset ověřených akcí, u kterých máte jistotu, že platí i v den, kdy si je přečtete – od bankovních bonusů přes kosmetiku a šperky až po herní sestavy na míru.

An implant, smaller than a grain of rice, pairs with camera-mounted glasses to communicate visual information to the retina.

Age-related vision loss affects millions of people, and so far, there has been no way to reverse the damage. A newly approved retinal implant could change that by allowing some people with severe vision loss to regain functional sight.

More than five million people worldwide suffer from geographic atrophy, the late stage of the progressive eye condition dry age-related macular degeneration. The disease destroys the photoreceptors at the center of the retina, known as the macula, which is responsible for the sharp central vision required to read or recognize faces.

In the US, treatment options are limited to two drugs that can be injected into the eye to slow the disease’s progression. But neither can undo the damage. That could be about to change. California neurotech startup Science Corporation recently won European approval for a retinal implant designed to treat the condition.

“For decades, losing central vision to this disease meant losing the ability to read, recognize faces, and ultimately losing independence. There was no viable treatment. Now there is,” Max Hodak, Science’s CEO and co-founder, said in a press release.

The company’s PRIMA system combines an implant smaller than a grain of rice installed underneath the patient’s macula with a pair of camera-mounted glasses that translate incoming visual information into near-infrared light that is then beamed to the retina. The eye can’t detect this wavelength, so the device doesn’t interfere with any natural sight that remains.

The chip, which works on similar principles to a solar panel, converts the incoming light into electrical pulses that stimulate retinal neurons called bipolar cells. These are downstream of the rod and cone photoreceptor cells damaged by macular degeneration and normally spared by the disease.

In a clinical trial involving 38 patients across five countries, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine last year, the company and its collaborators showed participants gained an average of 25.5 letters—more than five lines—on a standard eye chart after having the device fitted.

And now the device has received a CE mark from the European Union making it possible to sell in 30 European countries. The company says the first commercial implants are expected to be fitted in Germany within weeks, with Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK to follow. In the US, PRIMA holds Breakthrough and Humanitarian Use Device designations from the FDA, but the company is confident it will gain full approval in the near future.

The device is a long way from restoring normal vision. The images it produces are black and white and the field of vision is extremely narrow. Hodak described the experience to the Financial Times as “kind of like looking through a straw in the center of their vision,” though he added that they see a pathway to color vision and higher acuity.

While the implantation procedure is fairly simple, it takes months of training to unlock the device’s full potential. Nonetheless, Hodak told STAT that the company expects to install 20 to 40 devices this year and 200 globally by the end of next if they get US approval in early 2027.

The approval is welcome news for the wider neurotech industry, which has absorbed billions of dollars of investment in recent years with little to show in terms of return.

“Science is showing that brain-computer interface companies have a path to real revenue now,” Jacob Robinson, founder of startup Motif Neuroscience, told STAT. “These companies aren’t all just making a bet on a market that is 10 to 15 years away.”

Hodak told the Financial Times hehopes sales from PRIMA will bankroll Science’s more ambitious work on “biohybrid” interfaces, which use genetically engineered living neurons to connect to the brain rather than metallic wires. “This is the financial backbone,” he said. “This is the thing that pays for the rest.”

Other companies are hot on Science’s heels. Neuralink, which Hodak co-founded with Elon Musk before leaving to start Science, is also working on a vision implant called Blindsight, which is due to enter human trials this year.

While the field remains a long way from the sci-fi vision of seamless two-way communication between humans and machines, this approval is growing evidence the neurotech industry is starting to move out of the lab and into the real world.

The post Europe Approves Bionic Eye to Restore Vision Lost to Blindness appeared first on SingularityHub.

Pharmaceutical company Amgen says it suffered a data breach after threat actors stole corporate data and patient information stored in multiple cloud systems operated by third-party service providers. [...]

Ucelený přehled článků, zpráviček a diskusí za minulých 7 dní.

V kupě galaxií Abel 2029, vzdálené od nás zhruba 1 miliardu světelných let, sedí obrovská galaxie IC 1101. Patří ke galaxiím typu nejjasnější galaxie kup (BCG), což je výmluvný název. Vědci tohohle galaktického obra změřili, zvážili, a také zjistili, že tenhle otesánek ještě stále roste.

Američtí Perpetua Resources ve spolupráci s U.S. Army vyvíjejí modulární technologii pro domácí výrobu vysoce čistého sulfidu antimonitého. Toto mobilní zařízení má zajistit nezávislost amerického zbrojního průmyslu na dodávkách kriticky významných surovin z ciziny pro výrobu munice, trhavin, elektroniky a dalších komodit.

Nejen lidé, jak jsme si donedávna mysleli, ale i ostatní primáti, od hominoidů až po lemury, mají zálibu v mazlíčcích. Nejčastěji pečují o evoluční blízké druhy, ale dovedou si najít přátele i mezi psy, ptáky nebo třeba okouzlujícími veverkami ratufami. S mazlíčky si nejčastěji hrají mláďata primátů, ošetřují je samice a samci je mají obvykle na háku.

The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages. [...]

Online advertising firm Adform suffered a supply-chain attack that delivered cryptocurrency-stealing scripts to websites using its ad platform, replacing wallet addresses copied to visitors' clipboards with ones controlled by an attacker. [...]

Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed to measure the models’ offensive cyber capabilities.

The events, which Anthropic revealed Thursday, are the second revelation in 10 days that AI models from the world’s wealthiest providers have trespassed into protected networks, an offense that, in more traditional hacking scenarios, could land the human behind the keyboard in prison for years. Earlier this month, OpenAI said its security models exploited a zero-day vulnerability for use in breaking into the network of Hugging Face, a platform for open source machine-learning models and AI datasets. The OpenAI models went on to steal access credentials and other confidential Hugging Face information. The OpenAI models also exploited publicly exposed credentials to compromise accounts of four other third-party services.

Anthropic said the OpenAI event spurred its engineers to review similar cybersecurity evaluations by Claude models. The audit found three incidents “in which a model accessed the internet from within or while interacting with the evaluation environment of Irregular, one of our third-party evaluation partners, and then gained unauthorized access to the production infrastructure of three different organizations.”

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OpenAI says it has reduced the price of two GPT-5.6 models, cutting Luna's API price by 80% and Terra's by 20% as it works to make its models more efficient. [...]

A Chinese-speaking threat actor is suspected to be behind a fresh wave of cyber attacks targeting government organizations mainly located in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the Syrian Arab Republic, since January 2025. These targeted organizations operate across several sectors, such as healthcare, research, government offices,

A Chinese-speaking threat actor is suspected to be behind a fresh wave of cyber attacks targeting government organizations mainly located in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the Syrian Arab Republic, since January 2025. These targeted organizations operate across several sectors, such as healthcare, research, government offices, Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Google has used AI tools to detect and patch 1,072 vulnerabilities in versions 149 and 150 of its Chrome browser, the company announced in a blog post.

That’s more vulnerabilities patched than in the previous 23 updates combined, according to Bleeping Computer.

One vulnerability detected by AI had been present in Chrome for 13 years but, for some reason, had never been detected by Google’s developers.

To further strengthen security, Google now plans to release new security patches for Chrome every week; down the road, it might even release two updates per week if needed.

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