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A girl working on a laptop at a table; the states' suits centre on how chatbots treat young users
AI & ML

Eight US States Sue OpenAI, and Iowa Wants a Court to Supervise Its Model Testing

The suits accuse OpenAI of misleading parents about ChatGPT's safety. Iowa also asks for penalties, deletion of residents' data and third-party checks on AI tests.

15 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
A row of refrigerated display cases in a supermarket, the kind of equipment run by remote controllers like those attacked in France
Cyber Threat Intel

Hackers Heated Fridges in 350 French Supermarkets Through Exposed Controllers

France's cyber agency names Danfoss, Copeland and Dixell devices and warns the campaign is probably continuing. Nobody has claimed it, and nobody has asked for a ransom.

14 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Three ethernet cables in black, red and yellow hanging side by side with their plugs at the top
Privacy & Data

Looking up a MAC address by its first three bytes misses the holders of smaller IEEE blocks

A MAC address carries two flag bits and, for a factory address, the organisation that bought its block from the IEEE. In the IEEE's listings on 12 October 2026, nearly a third of organisations' blocks share their first three bytes with other holders, though those blocks hold only about 1% of assigned addresses.

14 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Gloved hands placing red-capped blood sample tubes into a rack on a laboratory bench
Health & Wellness

Calculated LDL reads lower on Friedewald's formula than on Martin-Hopkins at high triglycerides

A calculated LDL is total cholesterol minus HDL minus an estimate of the cholesterol in VLDL, and the Friedewald, Martin-Hopkins and Sampson formulas make that estimate differently. They agree closely at low triglycerides and move apart as triglycerides rise, with Friedewald reading below Martin-Hopkins.

14 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
A printed electrocardiogram strip on pink grid paper
Health & Wellness

Dropping the sex point from the AF stroke score moved no combination between bands

In 2024 the European Society of Cardiology replaced the CHA2DS2-VASc stroke score for atrial fibrillation with CHA2DS2-VA, which drops the point for female sex. Women's scores fell by one while their stroke risk stayed the same, and the stroke rate printed beside a score depends on whose cohort supplied it.

12 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
A stack of internal hard disk drives
Cybersecurity

Attackers Are Exploiting AhsayCBS Backup Servers, and the Latest Version Is Not Safe

Huntress saw attackers chain two AhsayCBS flaws to plant webshells and a cryptominer. Version 10.3.4, named as the fix, is also vulnerable, and no patch exists yet.

12 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Taipei's skyline, with Taipei 101, in morning haze
Cyber Threat Intel

The FBI Seized a Chinese Contractor's Hacking Tools Used Against Taiwan, Japan and the US

Integrity Technology Group ran a vulnerability scanner and a phishing kit linked to Flax Typhoon. About 20 Taiwanese universities were confirmed victims.

12 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
A smartphone showing the Chrome browser logo
Cyber Threat Intel

Hijacked Domain Registries Let Attackers Get Real HTTPS Certificates for Google Domains

The operators behind Ghana, Sierra Leone and American Samoa's domains were compromised. Chrome has blocked the fraudulently obtained certificates, but Google says it may not have found them all.

8 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
A stethoscope and a red heart shape resting on an electrocardiogram printout
Health & Wellness

QT correction formulas agree at 60 beats a minute and drift apart either side

Bazett, Fridericia and Framingham correct the QT interval to a heart rate of 60 beats a minute, where all three give the same answer. At faster or slower rates they part, and the upper limits published for men and women differ from one source to the next.

8 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Health & Wellness

A baby's growth percentile depends on the chart behind it

A growth percentile ranks one measurement against a reference group of children, and the WHO 2006 standard, the US CDC 2000 reference and Singapore's local charts were built from different groups. The same baby can therefore rank quite differently depending on which chart the number came from.

7 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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