Woman’s Mystery Illness Turns Out To Be 3-Inch Snake Parasite In Her Brain

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A neurosurgeon in Australia pulled a wriggling 3-inch roundworm from the brain of a 64-year-old woman last year — which was quite the surprise to the woman’s team of doctors and ...

The Feds Asked TikTok For Lots of Domestic Spying Features

A draft agreement between TikTok and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to avoid a ban would have given U.S. agencies unprecedented access to TikTok’s facilities and servers. “Many of the concessions the government asked of ...

Google Releases First Quantum-Resilient FIDO2 Key Implementation

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Google has announced the first open-source quantum resilient FIDO2 security key implementation, which uses a unique ECC/Dilithium hybrid signature schema co-created with ETH Zurich. FIDO2 is the second major version of the ...

Genetics Makes Some People More Likely To Participate In Genetic Studies

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Stefania Benonisdottir and Augustine Kong at Oxford’s Big Data Institute have just demonstrated that we can determine if genetic studies are biased using nothing but the genes of the participants. You ...

US Space Force Creates First Unit Dedicated To Targeting Adversary Satellites

The United States Space Force has activated its first and only unit dedicated to targeting other nations’ satellites and the ground stations that support them. Space.com reports: The 75th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron (ISRS) was activated on Aug. 11 ...