A man in Ireland earned the unpleasant distinction of developing an exceedingly rare infection on his penis—one that has a puzzling origin, but may be connected to his work with dead animals. According to an article published in ASM Case Reports on Thursday, the 57-year-old man went to a hospital in Dublin after his penis

One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election after an official lost an encryption key needed to unlock results stored in a verifiable and privacy-preserving voting system. The International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) said Friday that the votes were submitted and tallied using Helios, an open

Hacker conferences—like all conventions—are notorious for giving attendees a parting gift of mystery illness. To combat “con crud,” New Zealand’s premier hacker conference, Kawaiicon, quietly launched a real-time, room-by-room carbon dioxide monitoring system for attendees. To get the system up and running, event organizers installed DIY CO2 monitors throughout the Michael Fowler Centre venue before

File sharing between smartphones has long been restricted by platform. The surprising news is that Google has figured out how to use AirDrop to exchange files both ways between its own Pixel Android devices, iPhones, and other Apple devices.  “Sharing moments shouldn’t depend on the phone you have. Starting today with the Pixel 10 family, Quick

OpenAI has introduced group chats inside ChatGPT, giving people a way to bring up to 20 others into a shared conversation with the chatbot. The feature is now available to all logged-in users after a short pilot earlier this month, and it shifts ChatGPT from a mostly one-on-one tool to something that supports small-group collaboration.

With its WorldGen system, Meta is shifting the use of generative AI for 3D worlds from creating static imagery to fully interactive assets. The main bottleneck in creating immersive spatial computing experiences – whether for consumer gaming, industrial digital twins, or employee training simulations – has long been the labour-intensive nature of 3D modelling. The

A Look Ahead at How Clean Data Now Leads to Years of Efficiency The future of work is being rewritten in real time, and Generative AI is the pen. As organizations race to adapt this technology, Square 9’s Chief Technology Officer is calling attention to a critical and often overlooked starting point: capture automation. “Generative

Partnership to develop sovereign national data centers, cloud systems, and digital identity platforms under Vision 2030. D-AI, the European advanced artificial intelligence and compute infrastructure company founded by Bijan Burnard, today signed a multi-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). The agreement establishes a strategic collaboration to

Tesonet invests in six AI companies, including the Swedish unicorn Lovable, the AI-powered advertising tool Vibe, and Lithuanian-founded Ace Waves. Although AI has become a major technology trend worldwide in recent years, Tesonet had been exploring this field earlier. Between 2021 and 2022, the group invested in AI solution companies CUBE3 and Cast AI, organized

New course empowers network engineers to integrate large language models into intelligent, secure automation workflows. INE, a global leader in network and IT training, today announced the release of its newest networking course, AI in Automation, designed to give engineers practical, hands-on experience integrating Artificial Intelligence into network infrastructure automation. The course brings together cutting-edge concepts