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A Miracle cancer therapy that involves engineering a patient’s own immune cells is being repurposed for HIV, and early results from two individuals hint at its promise for long-term control of the virus.As part of a clinical trial, scientists took people’s own immune cells and reprogrammed them in a lab to recognize and attack HIV in the body. After a single infusion of the modified cells, two individuals with HIV now have undetectable levels of the virus—one for nearly two years and the other for almost a year. Both have been able to go off HIV medications entirely.The two people…
[This is a sponsored article with Taylor’s University.] We love the idea of the natural-born leader. The prodigy. The one who just seems to have it all. But leadership isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you learn. Something you’re pushed into, tested on, and built through experience. Sometimes under pressure, sometimes over a stove. This philosophy comes to life through the Camp of Leaders (COL) programme, a structured mentorship platform by Taylor’s University that connects students with industry professionals to bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world. The COL programme is more than just a boot…
2023 saw a 72% increase in data breaches since 2021, which held the previous all-time record. IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 With the rise of data breaches and hacking attempts, a strong cybersecurity posture is the most significant need today. Given the scale of cybercrime growth, you need to carefully consider several key factors that will ultimately impact the cybersecurity solution you pick. Businesses have realized the value of their data; now they must invest in tools to easily detect and respond to security issues. That is where Extended Detection and Response (XDR) enters the fray as a tool that empowers organizations to better protect their assets from complex cyber…
A significant reorganization is currently taking place within the enterprise infrastructure market, which means that Dell Technologies Inc. will play a prominent role in the outcome. To be successful, however, Dell must continue to expand its “big tent” of collaborators. Dell has made strategic partnerships a central part of its enterprise AI approach, forming key alliances with chipmakers, virtualization leaders, cloud providers, and a host of leading software platforms. As theCUBE Research analysts have recently documented, AI has fostered the need for a platform that makes compute, storage, networking, and workloads work cohesively across hybrid and multicloud worlds. Dell’s partnership…
It’s a hot topic, the old “pay or don’t pay” for hackers not to leak your data. Since recording this a few days ago, we’ve had Grafana go with the “no pay” approach, and I’ve seen a raft of commentary around other companies reaching “agreements”, which is a much politer way of saying “we paid extortionists a ransom”. I’m concerned about the normalisation of ransom payments, and using language that deflects from the criminal nature of it is a big part of that. Instructure’s exact words were that they “reached an agreement with the unauthorised actor involved”, which really waters…
United Nations’ Under-Secretary and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies, Amandeep Singh Gill, appears via Zoom to deliver the opening keynote at Seattle University’s 2026 Ethics and Tech conference on May 15, 2026. (Photo: Ken Yeung) Big tech companies are deploying compute clusters with millions of GPUs to train and run AI models. But across the entire continent of Africa — encompassing 54 countries and more than 1.5 billion people — fewer than 1,000 GPUs are available for researchers and developers to train models on local-language datasets. That disparity illustrates what the United Nations’ top digital envoy calls an…
Apple is reportedly preparing one of the biggest Siri redesigns in years with iOS 27, but even after multiple delays, the company may still label the upgraded assistant as a beta product. According to reports from Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, internal test versions of iOS 27 already refer to the revamped Siri as a beta experience and include an option allowing users to leave the Siri beta entirely. The move would be unusually familiar for longtime Apple users. When Apple originally introduced Siri in 2011, the assistant itself launched under a beta label before Apple quietly removed the branding in…
Ravie LakshmananMay 17, 2026Server Security / Vulnerability A newly disclosed security flaw impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open has come under active exploitation in the wild, days after its public disclosure, according to VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score: 9.2), is a heap buffer overflow in ngx_http_rewrite_module affecting NGINX versions 0.6.27 through 1.30.0. According to AI-native security company depthfirst, the vulnerability was introduced in 2008. Successful exploitation of the flaw can permit an unauthenticated attacker to crash worker processes or execute remote code with crafted HTTP requests. However, it bears noting that code execution is possible only on…
A lot of humans are feeling very down on humanity these days. Maybe you’ve met them. Or maybe you’re one of them.I’m talking about those who look around and say: Humans are destroying the planet — causing climate change, making other species go extinct. Soon enough we’ll be mucking up the cosmos, too — polluting it with still more space junk, colonizing the moon, even exporting data centers into the heavens. The world would be better off if we ourselves just go extinct!One reader recently exemplified this rising anti-humanism by writing in to my philosophical advice column, Your Mileage May…
Once configured, setup proceeds much like the Aiper and pricier Irrigreen apps: You create a zone, then use the app to define its boundaries. Similar to the aforementioned systems, Oto’s sprinkler is designed for precision watering, firing water in a beam in a single direction instead of a wide spray. That said, Oto’s spray is comparably narrow, only hitting a single, designated patch instead of producing a two-dimensional curtain of water like Irrigreen’s “water printing” system. You get a nice preview of this as you set the boundaries of your yard.Like its competitors, Oto lets you set each zone as…