AI just created a virus that kills bacteria—should we be scared?

Stanford and Arc Institute used AI to design viruses that kill bacteria, sparking hope for new therapies and warnings over biosecurity risks.

Hackers are using GPT-4 to build a virtual assistant - here's what we know

In essence, MalTerminal is a malware generator. When adversaries bring it up, it asks if they want to create a ransomware encryptor, or a reverse shell. The prompt is then sent to the GPT-4 AI, which ...

The Strange Origins Of 10 Common Computing Terms

Computing revolutionized most aspects of 21st century life, including language, with new and repurposed terms becoming the lexicon of a generation.

Escape from PARIS: Virus smuggles RNA into bacterial cell to survive immunity

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Lorraine, France, have uncovered ...
Nature

Using short synthetic nucleic acids to probe genes in viruses that infect bacteria

Earth’s most diverse biological entities are the viruses that infect bacteria, called bacteriophages (phages). They are rich ...
New Scientist

Some viruses like to cheat – and that may be good for our health

Mutations can result in viruses that infect cells, but can't copy themselves without help from other viruses - now it seems ...
Nature

How a dangerous tick-borne virus sneaks into the brain

Protein on the surface of brain cells appears to play a key role in disease progression — plus, a bot explores what might have happened to research if the Trump’s teams funding cuts had happened 10 ...
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Anime Vanguards codes September 2025

September 20, 2025: Three new Anime Vanguards codes can net you over 100 rerolls and 5k gems. What are the new Anime Vanguards codes? In a Roblox game where the universes of multiple anime have ...