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Nine unvaccinated people hospitalized as Texas measles outbreak doubles

Measles outbreak grows in Texas

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An outbreak of measles in one of Texas' least vaccinated counties continues to rapidly expand, with officials reporting 24 cases Tuesday, up from just nine confirmed on Friday . According to an update by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), all 24 cases identified in the two-week-old outbreak are in unvaccinated people. Nine of the patients (37.5 percent) required hospitalization

Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim

Teen sentenced for nationwide swatting

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A teacher in high school once quoted an old proverb to me: "Do something you love, and you'll never work a day in your life!" Perhaps 18-year-old Alan Filion encountered a similar teacher during his school years in California, because once Filion learned that he truly loved making fake "swatting" calls to law enforcement—well, he turned the crime into a job, using handles like "Nazgul Swattings"

Financially motivated hackers are helping their espionage counterparts and vice versa

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There’s a growing collaboration between hacking groups engaging in espionage on behalf of nation-states and those seeking financial gains through ransomware and other forms of cybercrime, researchers noted this week . There has always been some level of overlap between these two groups, but it has become more pronounced in recent years. On Tuesday, the Google-owned Mandiant security firm said the

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From 900 miles away, the US government recorded audio of the Titan sub implosion

Titan submarine implosion audio released

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Thanks to being an incompressible medium, water transmits vibrations both farther and faster than the air. (Here's a good video explainer on the subject.) This fact helps to explain how a US government-owned "moored passive acoustic recorder" was able to hear and record the 2023 implosion of the doomed Titan submersible—even though the recorder was 900 miles away from the dive site. That implosio

“Largest data breach in US history”: Three more lawsuits try to stop DOGE

States sue Trump over DOGE access

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The US DOGE Service's access to the private data of ordinary Americans and federal employees is being challenged in several lawsuits filed this week. Three new complaints seek court orders that would stop the data access and require the deletion of unlawfully accessed data. Two of the complaints also seek financial damages for individuals whose data was accessed. The US DOGE Service, Elon Musk, t

Apple TV+ crosses enemy lines, will be available as an Android app starting today

Apple TV+ app coming to Android

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Apple services like iMessage and FaceTime often work exclusively on Apple’s hardware, something the company uses to keep customers inside its ecosystem and encourage people who buy one Apple product to buy other Apple products so they can keep using the features they like. Apple’s streaming and media services have been an exception to this, going all the way back to iTunes for Windows —the compan

Seafloor detector picks up record neutrino while under construction

KM3NeT detects highest energy neutrino

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On Wednesday, a team of researchers announced that they got extremely lucky. The team is building a detector on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea that can identify those rare occasions when a neutrino happens to interact with the seawater nearby. And while the detector was only 10 percent of the size it will be on completion, it managed to pick up the most energetic neutrino ever detected. For c

Apple now lets you move purchases between your 25 years of accounts

Apple enables account purchase migration

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Last night, Apple posted a new support document about migrating purchases between accounts , something that Apple users with long online histories have been waiting on for years, if not decades. If you have movies, music, or apps orphaned on various iTools/.Mac/MobileMe/iTunes accounts that preceded what you're using now, you can start the fairly involved process of moving them over. "You can cho

Queer-friendly data on car crash deaths removed from NHTSA website

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In early February, a dataset tracking car crash deaths in the US curiously went missing from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) website. Unlike other Donald Trump-ordered changes to government websites in which entire studies were removed and later court-ordered to be restored , only the most recent data on car crash deaths from 2022 was deleted from download files on NHTS

Common factors link rise in pedestrian deaths—fixing them will be tough

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American roads have grown deadlier for everyone, but the toll on pedestrians has been disproportionate. From a record low in 2009, the number of pedestrians being killed by vehicles rose 83 percent by 2022 to the highest it's been in 40 years. During that time, overall traffic deaths increased by just 25 percent. Now, a new study from AAA has identified a number of common factors that can explain

Curiosity spies stunning clouds at twilight on Mars

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In the mid- and upper-latitudes on Earth, during the early evening hours, thin and wispy clouds can sometimes be observed in the upper atmosphere. These clouds have an ethereal feel and consist of ice crystals in very high clouds at the edge of space, typically about 75 to 85 km above the surface. The clouds are still in sunlight while the ground is darkening after the Sun sets. Meteorologists ca

Scientific breakthroughs are hard without money for research infrastructure

Trump caps NIH indirect costs

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Biomedical research in the US is world class in part because of a longstanding partnership between universities and the federal government. On Feb. 7, 2025, the US National Institutes of Health issued a policy that could weaken the position of the United States as a global leader in scientific innovation by slashing funds to the infrastructure that allows universities and other institutions to co

After Putin sacked Russia’s space chief, the rumor mill is running red-hot

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After a relatively short period of just two and a half years, the chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, was dismissed from his position last week. The Kremlin announced he would be replaced by 39-year-old former Deputy Minister of Transport Dmitry Bakanov. An economist by training, Bakanov has worked in the past for a satellite communications company named Gonets. Howeve

If it moves, it’s probably alive: Searching for life on other planets

Microbial movement test aids alien life search

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The search for extraterrestrial life has always been a key motivator of space exploration. But if we were to search Mars, Titan, or the subsurface oceans of Europa or Enceladus, it seems like all we can reasonably hope to find is extremophile microbes. And microbes, just a few microns long and wide, will be difficult to identify if we’re relying on robots working with limited human supervision an

An update on highly anticipated—and elusive—Micro LED displays

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Micro LED has become one of the most anticipated display technologies for consumer products in recent years. Using self-emissive LEDs as pixels, the backlight-free displays combine the contrast-rich capabilities of OLED with the brightness and durability potential of LCD-LED displays, and they avoid burn-in issues. We're often asked about the future of Micro LED and when display enthusiasts can r

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