Fossil From Fujian Suggests Some of the Earliest Birds Had Already Given Up Flying
A crow-sized Late Jurassic bird with a raptor's sickle claw and short forelimbs was probably a ground-dwelling hunter, a...
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GoTo Releases a 27-Billion-Parameter Indonesian Language Model, Built With AI Singapore
The Gojek and Tokopedia owner calls it open-source. It ships under Google's Gemma licence, needs up to 60 GB of GPU memory and has no published scores yet.
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Anthropic Pledges 5% of Its Shares to a New Public Benefit Fund, and Musk Says Give Them to the Public
The Claude maker's stake can grow with its valuation and could fund donations or direct distributions. Stockholders must...
Malaysia's Exports Top RM200 Billion for the First Time, Growing at Fastest Pace Since 2021
September shipments rose 54.5% to RM215.1 billion, with electronics supplying most of the gain and the US and Taiwan the...
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Unit 42 Links Fortinet Path-Traversal Bug to Memory-Only FortiGate Implant in Telecom Intrusion
Attackers stole the configurations of 500+ firewalls from one FortiManager, then planted PEERSTITCH. CISA added CVE-2025...
Ledger Says Criminals Hid Seed-Stealing Implants in Wallets Sold Through Southeast Asian Resellers
Sales are paused in seven markets while Ledger investigates. It links every confirmed loss to one Malaysia-based reselle...
China Makes AI, Biotech and Solar Technology Exports Register First While It Drafts Tighter Controls
A joint MOFCOM notice adds a pre-export filing duty from 16 October and proposes banning or restricting 40 technologies,...
Fine-Particle Air Pollution Linked to Higher Hospital Admission Risk for Up to 21 Days, Study Finds
Researchers matched 20 years of daily admissions in six countries and territories against PM2.5 levels. The added danger...
Nearly 27% of the World's Land May Already Be Conserved, Well Above the Official 18.5%, Nature Study Estimates
A sample of 25 countries finds protected areas missing from global records, putting the 30 by 30 land goal within reach....
Compromised Login Let Intruder Copy California Student Test Records for Nearly Four Months, ETS Notice Says
Files covering everyone enrolled in the past three school years, with disability records and exam results, were copied f...
Indonesia's OJK Fines Unnamed Parties Rp2.1 Trillion Over DSSA Trading and BREN, CUAN Share Allocations
Indonesia's market regulator says shares were manipulated and IPO allotments steered to disguised buyers. It came a day...
Claude Traces the Mysterious NIST P-256 Curve Seeds to a 1997 Clock-Seeded Random-Number Generator
For years nobody could explain where the numbers behind NIST's P-256 curve came from. Claude traced them to a 1997 rando...
Brown Fat Linked to Less Diabetes, Heart Disease and Depression in Scans of 101,243 Cancer Patients
A Nature study used AI to measure brown fat on hospital PET/CT scans. The links are strong, but the design is observatio...
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