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Anthropic has a remarkable number of women in its leadership ranks. Its chief product officer, chief people officer, head of public policy, head of design for Claude, head of platform engineering, head of product for coding, head of product for research labs, and head of “personality alignment” for AI models (yes, that’s a thing) are all women.(More recently, another woman close to Anthropic has emerged as something of a power player. According to The Information and The Wall Street Journal, Dario’s longtime partner, Cami Clark—who reportedly tried to get Jeffrey Epstein to invest in her porn company—was instrumental in connecting…

A newly discovered Android trojan relies on generative AI to more intelligently navigate and control the infected devices, mobile security company Zimperium reports. Dubbed RatHat, the malware has been distributed through smishing and malvertising, relying on an automated multi-stage infection pipeline to break out of Android’s application sandbox and gain shell-level execution. RatHat contains typical mobile malware capabilities: it steals users’ credentials, mimics banking and payment applications to steal credentials and access codes, and establishes a covert communication channel with the command-and-control (C&C) server for remote access. Unlike other mobile threats, however, it also uses generative AI to navigate and…

With the new rally, the next psychological level is $90,000.Nansen’s Sondergaard pointed to $87,000 as the next level to watch, followed by the psychological $90,000 mark and then roughly $92,000. Meanwhile, Jasper De Maere, OTC Trader at Wintermute, also sees a $90,000 test as possible.The latest breakout came despite last week’s turbulent macro and political pressures, which included the failure of the Clarity Act to advance and a Federal Reserve rate increase accompanied by hawkish commentary.Bitcoin also reclaimed its 50-week moving average, a longer-term trend line that some traders use as a signal for their strategies. Wintermute’s De Maere said…

A new brain imaging study led by scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has uncovered what researchers describe as the strongest evidence so far that long COVID is associated with damage to dopamine-releasing neurons in the brain. Published in eBioMedicine, the findings could help explain persistent problems such as fatigue-related loss of motivation, slower movement, and memory difficulties. They may also point toward new treatment strategies. Long COVID is estimated to affect about five per cent of the global population, including roughly two million people in Canada. The condition can involve a broad range of symptoms…

A new study in Bali found that coral reefs continue to decline at one of the island’s major tourism hubs, despite multiple efforts to rehabilitate them.Reef restoration initiatives often take place without first addressing the underlying drivers of coral decline such as sediment runoff and wastewater discharge, the study found.The study points to uncoordinated governance systems that result in overlapping responsibilities, slow and bureaucratic decision-making and wasted resources as driving the problems.The researchers recommend a more coherent and collaborative approach to reef protection, and underscore the paradoxical role of tourism: While it exacerbates threats to reefs, it also offers…

Carolin Würfel is right to see the success of AfD in the eastern states of Germany as a way to protest against west German dominance (I know why many east Germans vote AfD. And no, it’s not an inherited longing for dictatorship, 15 September).But she overlooks the fact that the “takeover” of 1990 could not have been done much differently. Any path more resembling those of other east European nations would have led to mass migration to West Germany. In that sense the current situation is not the fault of western politicians and industrialists. One thing could and should have…

A former police officer claims he killed two men in self-defence and began cleaning up the crime scene because he “panicked”, a Sydney court has heard.Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally shooting 26-year-old Jesse Baird and his partner, Luke Davies, 29, with a police service weapon at Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.The prosecution told the supreme court on Monday that Lamarre-Condon had become infatuated and obsessed with Baird and began planning his murder in early 2024.Lamarre-Condon’s defence lawyer, John Stratton SC, told the court on Tuesday that the policeman had been acting in “self-defence”.Disguised as an…

Meta’s latest AI app, Muse, could be the social giant’s next major hit, new data suggests. According to just- released estimates from market intelligence provider Apptopia, Muse’s app on mobile devices has been downloaded more times during its first 12 days on the market than ChatGPT was in the 12 days after its debut. (This data compares the U.S. and Canada markets only.) Muse also has more daily active users than ChatGPT had at the time, the firm found. Until now, it had been difficult to make an exact apples-to-apples comparison between these two apps, given that they had pursued…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that hackers are exploiting three Linux kernel vulnerabilities, one of them rated critical. The three security issues were added separately last week and have severity ratings ranging from medium to critical. One of them, tracked as CVE-2025-39964, existed in the Linux kernel for 14 years. CISA marked all three flaws with the highest priority for federal agencies, ordering them to apply available security updates and mitigations by the end of today. The three vulnerabilities are: CVE-2025-39964: a race condition in the kernel’s AF_ALG cryptographic socket interface that allows concurrent writes…

In brief Google learned in late July that Gemini had broken out of a sandboxed security test run in May, reaching three real companies and either guessing or finding two of their passwords The company didn’t disclose it until September 18, after The Wall Street Journal asked. The same third-party testing firm, Irregular, was involved in Google’s incident and in nearly identical sandbox failures Anthropic and Meta disclosed earlier this year. Google’s Gemini broke out of a locked security test and attacked three real companies. Google learned about it in late July and said nothing for seven weeks.The company confirmed…