Month: October 2025

Google’s Gemma Model Helps Uncover Promising Cancer Therapy Pathway

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Google’s Gemma Model Helps Uncover Promising Cancer Therapy Pathway

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In a world where we ask artificial intelligence to summarize articles and create images, scientists have now tasked an AI with a much bigger challenge: finding a new way to fight cancer. And it just delivered a promising lead.

Google, on October 15, announced a major scientific milestone: an AI model from its Gemma family has helped uncover a potential new way to treat cancer.

In collaboration with Yale University, researchers at Google DeepMind and Google Research developed Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a massive 27 billion parameter AI model designed to understand the “language” of individual cells. Continue reading “Google’s Gemma Model Helps Uncover Promising Cancer Therapy Pathway” →

A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android Phones

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A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android Phones

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The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.

ANDROID DEVICES ARE vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal two-factor authentication codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds.

The new attack, named Pixnapping by the team of academic researchers who devised it, requires a victim to first install a malicious app on an Android phone or tablet. The app, which requires no system permissions, can then effectively read data that any other installed app displays on the screen. Pixnapping has been demonstrated on Google Pixel phones and the Samsung Galaxy S25 phone and likely could be modified to work on other models with additional work. Google released mitigations last month, but the researchers said a modified version of the attack works even when the update is installed.

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Groundbreaking Gene Therapy…

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Groundbreaking Gene Therapy Slows Huntington’s Disease for the First Time

 

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It doesn’t get more “nice news” than this: In a historic medical first, a pioneering gene therapy successfully slowed the progression of Huntington’s disease by 75% in a clinical trial. The breakthrough offers new hope for the tens of thousands living with the devastating hereditary condition, which progressively destroys brain cells and impairs movement, cognition, and behavior — and until now, there was no treatment capable of slowing or halting its advance.
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