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Researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to dramatically accelerate the search for drugs targeting neurological conditions like motor neurone disease. What once took decades in the lab could now take years, and the particular hope here is that effective treatments may already exist among affordable, approved medications — hiding in plain sight, waiting to be recognized.
Shifting to cybersecurity, Dutch authorities have seized roughly eight hundred servers belonging to a hosting firm that investigators say was actively enabling cyberattacks. Operations like this are significant because so-called bulletproof hosting — infrastructure deliberately shielded from takedown requests — is the backbone of ransomware, phishing, and distributed denial-of-service campaigns worldwide. Removing that backbone matters.
And on a lighter note, a man in Grapevine, Texas drove his Tesla Cybertruck directly into a lake, apparently to field-test the vehicle's wade mode. Police were called, bodycam footage was obtained through public records requests, and the truck did eventually resurface — though the driver's confidence in that feature may not have. It is a reminder that reading the manual remains underrated technology.
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