AI agents have been given the keys to the office, and Microsoft has decided they need a supervisor. The company has introduced a security agent that watches other AI agents in…
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Linus Torvalds has tripled the throughput of a contended Linux kernel path, and he did it with an AI coding assistant looking over his shoulder. The fix to a multi-threaded…
After a raccoon attack, a 91-year-old man’s rabies vaccine was not covered and cost hundreds of dollars. Clinicians explain the treatment, why it is urgent, and why coverage for it is so inconsistent.
The human brain’s defining strengths, prediction, emotion, storytelling memory, are inseparable from its characteristic failures. Scientists trace the trade-offs to an evolution that optimised for survival, not for modern life or long life.
A study of more than 16,000 students finds classroom smartphone bans significantly improve grades, with struggling students benefiting most.
US measles cases rose 8% in one week to 4,410. Here is what is driving the increase, the symptoms to watch for, and the current vaccination guidance.
An early trial found a personalised NeoVax vaccine with nivolumab feasible and acceptably safe in platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer patients.
Saturn’s confirmed moon total has risen to 274 after astronomers recognised 128 new moons, the largest tally of any planet in the solar system.
A major clinical trial found continuous glucose monitors helped adults with type 2 diabetes who do not use insulin spend about five more hours a day in their target blood sugar range.
Researchers say boredom is not a broken brain but a busy one: the idle mind maintains memory, imagines the future and invents. Why learning to be bored again may be a genuine mental-health skill.