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Dutch authorities have dismantled a botnet spanning more than seventeen million compromised devices, managed through two hundred servers based in the Netherlands. The takedown was a joint effort between police and the National Cyber Security Center, triggered after a security researcher flagged the network. It's a significant win, though botnets of this scale rarely disappear without successors emerging.
Shifting to energy storage, researchers are taking a closer look at why solid-state batteries degrade so quickly. The culprit appears to be dendrites, tiny metallic filaments that grow inside the battery over time, eventually causing short circuits. Understanding exactly how they form could be the key to making solid-state batteries viable for electric vehicles and grid storage at scale.
And in biotechnology, a Guardian profile is drawing attention to Cathy Tie, a young entrepreneur openly pursuing the genetic modification of human embryos. Her mission sits at one of the sharpest ethical fault lines in modern science, where the promise of eliminating heritable disease collides directly with deep concerns about consent, equity, and where medicine ends and engineering begins.
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