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Nearly two thousand compromised WordPress sites have been weaponized into criminal infrastructure in an operation researchers are calling StopAndProtect. Attackers used the hijacked sites to distribute malware, harvest cryptocurrency wallet files, and deploy ransomware — a reminder that the web's aging underbelly remains a reliable tool for organized cybercrime.
Shifting to hardware, Google's Pixel eleven Pro Fold is out, and reviewers say it's the cleanest, most refined folding phone Google has built yet. But refinement has its limits — the device is nearly indistinguishable from last year's model, and Samsung's best foldables still hold the crown. The question the Pixel raises is whether polish alone is enough to close that gap.
And from the MIT Picower Institute, a new theory is challenging how we think about the mind itself. Researchers argue that cognition and consciousness don't emerge from digital, binary-style brain processes — but from analog computation. If that holds up, it could reshape not just neuroscience, but how we design artificial intelligence from the ground up.
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