Understanding antimicrobial resistance in MRSA: mechanisms, challenges and emerging insights
Introduction: Why MRSA resistance is important Imagine a battlefield where humans deploy their most powerful…
Understanding antimicrobial resistance in MRSA: mechanisms, challenges and emerging insights
Introduction: Why MRSA resistance is important Imagine a battlefield where humans deploy their most powerful weapons and the enemy not only survives but learns to deflect every attack. That battlefield is modern medicine, the weapons are antibiotics and the enemy is Staphylococcus aureus — in particular its methicillin-resistant form, MRSA. MRSA is one of the…
Apple finally abandons the classic stickers on the iPhone 16 box
When you pick up your new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models, you may feel like something is missing from the box. After removing the power bricks some time ago, and also the headphones, Apple apparently decided to finally remove the classic white Apple stickers from the packaging of its device as well. That…
The Jamestown settlers strangely picked up donkeys on their way to the New World and probably ate them
When the Jamestown settlers first arrived in Virginia, they brought with them supplies and tools they believed they would need to start a new colony. While historical records indicate that these supplies included horses, new archaeological evidence reveals that another livestock staple was also present in the colony. Through a new zooarchaeological analysis published in…
AMD expands chip war, but Nvidia continues to lead
He Wall Street Journal amazed on AMD’s “breakthrough deal” this week with OpenAI, calling it “the culmination of an extraordinary decade-long turnaround effort, solidifying AMD’s status as Nvidia’s most legitimate competitor.” Shortly after taking over the company in 2014, [CEO] His implemented a systematic plan to eat Intel’s lunch, which he accomplished by attacking Intel’s…
Self Assessment and Making Tax Digital: What MTD for Income Tax means for landlords
18 August, 2025 13 min read Share Copy Link Copied Is it really the end of Self Assessment for landlords? Discover how property income will be affected by Making Tax Digital for Income Tax. Have you heard that Self Assessment might be coming to an end? And that the need for you to file an…
The best Prime Day deals for astronomers and sci-fi lovers
October’s Prime Day is coming to an end, but these deals are still active—for now! We’ve rounded up the best deals on sky-watching equipment, cameras, Lego and drones for you to choose from. Some of these deals may last longer than Prime Day, which ends at midnight tonight, but we recommend grabbing them now before…
MCP in Practice – O’Reilly
The following was originally published in Asimov’s Addendum, September 11, 2025. Learn more about the AI Disclosures Project here. 1. The Rise and Rise of MCP Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) was released in November 2024 as a way to make tools and platforms model-agnostic. MCP works by defining servers and clients. MCP servers are local or remote end…
Up to 2 million Cisco devices affected by 0 days actively exploited
Up to 2 million Cisco devices are susceptible to an actively exploited zero-day that can crash or remotely execute code on vulnerable systems. cisco said Wednesday that the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20352, was present in all supported versions of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE, the operating system that powers a wide variety of the…
AI-designed proteins test biosecurity safeguards
New patches to biosecurity screening software can make it harder to produce potentially harmful proteins using artificial intelligence. Around the world, this software monitors processes to artificially make proteins, ensuring that people with bad intentions aren’t producing dangerous proteins, such as toxins. Making slight tweaks with AI to known toxins or viral proteins can bypass…
Apple unveils $2 million bug bounty for spyware-level exploits
Apple has announced a major overhaul to its bug bounty program that doubles the maximum reward to $2 million for exploit chains that can match the sophistication of mercenary spyware attacks. With bonuses for bypassing lock mode and vulnerabilities found in beta software, Apple says its total payouts could exceed $5 million. The company claims…
