Kernel development and machine learning seem like vastly different areas of
endeavor; there are not, yet, stories circulating about the vibe-coding of
new memory-management algorithms. There may well be places where machine
learning (and large language models — LLMs — in particular) prove to be
helpful on the edges of the kernel project, though. At the
2025
North-American edition of the Open Source Summit, Sasha Levin presented
some of the work he has done putting LLMs to work to make the kernel better
Study discovered abnormal process in womb lining, with potential for new treatments to prevent pregnancy loss
Scientists have developed a test to identify women with an increased risk of miscarriage, which could pave the way for new treatments to prevent pregnancy loss.
About one in six of all pregnancies are lost, most before 12 weeks, and each miscarriage increases the risk of another one happening.
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr and libxml2), Fedora (firefox, libtpms, and tigervnc), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable and nss & firefox), Oracle (emacs, iputils, kernel, krb5, libarchive, mod_proxy_cluster, pam, perl-File-Find-Rule, perl-YAML-LibYAML, and qt5-qtbase), Red Hat (opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, and weldr-client), SUSE (clamav, firefox, go1.24-openssl, and helm), and Ubuntu (libarchive, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-azure-fips, linux-fips, linux-azure-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-realtime, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and python-urllib3).
Reddit is in an “arms race” to protect its communities from AI-generated content.
Five-year SynHG project aims to pave way for next generation of medical therapies and treatment of diseases
Researchers are embarking on an ambitious project to construct human genetic material from scratch to learn more about how DNA works and pave the way for the next generation of medical therapies.
Scientists on the Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project will spend the next five years developing the tools and knowhow to build long sections of human genetic code in the lab. These will be inserted into living cells to understand how the code operates.
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Our human microbiome is in decline, which is likely to be contributing to the sharp rise in non-communicable diseases, health conditions that cannot be directly transmitted between people, such as cardiovascular disease and cancers. Josh Toussaint-Strauss talks to Dr James Kinross, colorectal surgeon and author of the book Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome, about why the human microbiome is in decline, how modern life is impacting it and what we can do to look after it
James Kinross also appeared recently on the Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast, you can listen here:
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A Trump appointee suggests NASA may not have a new administrator until next year.
Nothing confirmed but authority is operating under the assumption that data has been stolen
A cyberattack on Glasgow City Council is causing massive disruption with a slew of its digital services unavailable.…
Phil King teaches us how to play drum samples at the press of a button with Raspberry Pi Pico.
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Pathology outage caused by Synnovis breach linked to harm across dozens of healthcare facilities
The NHS says Qilin's ransomware attack on pathology services provider Synnovis last year led to the death of a patient.…