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The Brain That Walks: How Adaptive DBS Is Rewriting Parkinson’s Future
Researchers at UCSF have developed a closed-loop deep brain stimulation system that adjusts in real time to improve walking gait and reduce falls in Parkinson's disease patients, a significant shift from conventional continuous stimulation.
Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Fortinet FortiSandbox Under Active Exploitation by Threat Actors
Attackers are actively exploiting multiple critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet's FortiSandbox platform, including unauthenticated command injection flaws that allow remote code execution without user interaction.
Children Read Intent in Human Eyes but Not in Robot Gazes — Study Highlights Limits of Mimicry in Embodied AI
An international study finds 3-year-olds interpret human gaze as intentional but fail to read the same signals from humanoid robots, underscoring the need for richer, multimodal interactions in child-facing AI.
Why Skipping Breakfast Makes You Dumber, Sad, and Tired
Skipping breakfast impairs memory, mood, sleep quality, and job performance. Learn the neuroscience behind why your brain needs morning fuel—and what to eat instead.
A Dose of Psilocybin Woke Up Her Brain: The Alzheimer’s Patient Who Spoke Again After a Decade of Silence
A single, supervised dose of psilocybin triggered a dramatic but temporary reversal of severe dementia symptoms in an elderly woman, revealing how the brain’s latent circuits may bypass degenerative damage—if only for a fleeting window.
Mach Industries Just Broke Defense. Here’s How.
How a 22-year-old founder turned a $300M funding round into a six-vehicle defense revolution — and why legacy primes can't catch up.
Cisco Secures AI Agents with NHI Stack via Astrix and WideField Acquisitions
Cisco's acquisitions of Astrix Security and WideField Security build a non-human identity (NHI) security stack designed to help enterprises manage the growing population of AI agents and autonomous systems that lack traditional human credentials.
The Reverse Centaur Economy: How AI’s Labor Fantasy Is Fueling a $1.4 Trillion Bubble
Cory Doctorow’s ‘Reverse Centaur’ framework reveals how AI’s promise of a workerless future is driving unsustainable capital spending, transforming human labor into disposable appendages — and setting the stage for a catastrophic economic correction.
ShapedPlugin’s Update Pipeline Was Hacked—Here’s What Got Stolen
A supply chain attack compromised ShapedPlugin’s build system, injecting malware into paid WordPress plugins distributed to paying customers via official updates.
Saliva Biomarkers: The New Breathalyzer for Sleep Deprivation
Researchers isolate ten saliva biomarkers for objective sleep deprivation detection—paving the way for roadside fatigue tests.
Chemistry Isn't Magic—It's Your Brain on Conversation
Forget charisma. Real connection isn't about being magnetic—it's about triggering dopamine, mirroring subtly, and activating positive memories. Here's how to engineer rapport using neuroscience, not tricks.
How Crypto Clipper Malware Hides Behind Tor's SOCKS5 Proxy to Steal Crypto Wallets
A deep dive into how the Crypto Clipper malware campaign uses a local SOCKS5 proxy at localhost:9050 to route all command-and-control traffic through Tor, evading traditional network defenses while stealing cryptocurrency seed phrases, private keys, and swapping wallet addresses.