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RFK Jr. stacks FDA panel with peptide peddlers as FDA scientists oppose access
Peptide drugs are popular, but FDA scientists warn they're untested, may be harmful.
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007 First Light’s developer lays off staff but claims its next franchise will continue
IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman series and 007 First Light, announced that it is laying off staff after a relationship with an "external partner" on its next big franchise, Project Fantasy, "has come to an end." IO has described Project Fantasy as an "online fantasy RPG", and Kotaku and Bloomberg report that Microsoft, which is planning significant cuts as part of a broader "reset" of the Xbox business, was going to be the game's publisher. It's unclear how many people will be affe
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DZone
The 20 Software Engineering Laws
Most engineers learn these laws the hard way. When you try to rewrite something and it doesn’t deliver, or when a project is already late, adding engineers to the team will just make it fail faster. Sometimes, when you start using a metric to measure progress, the whole team will start trying to manipulate it. Then, six months later, someone mentions a 1975 law that addresses exactly what happened. I paid a price to learn this, too: I spent half my career learning these lessons the hard way, as
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Google Cloud Blog
Conversational analytics in BigQuery brings trusted agentic reasoning to everyone
Businesses run on fast decisions, but the teams who hold the answers are often buried under a backlog of routine requests, leaving users waiting in line for insights they need now. Today, we are bringing Conversational Analytics in BigQuery to general availability, so both business and technical teams can query data, run multi-step analyses, and generate visual reports using natural language, right where the data lives. With this release, Conversational Analytics in BigQuery now delivers an agen
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The Hacker News
Microsoft Warns Poisoned MCP Tool Descriptions Can Make AI Agents Leak Data
New Microsoft research shows how attackers can hijack AI agents that act on a user's behalf, using nothing more than a poisoned tool description to make the agent quietly hand over company data to an outsider. The trick is that the agent never breaks a rule. Every step looks routine, so in a default setup no alarm may fire. The work comes from Microsoft Incident Response and its
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RustDuck Botnet Rebuilds in Rust to Hijack Routers and Servers for DDoS
A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock websites and online services offline. Researchers at QiAnXin's XLab have tracked it since February 2026, and say the real story is not how big it is today, but how fast it is changing. The end goal is a
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The Verge Tech
Moto’s Tag 2 tracker is $20 for a limited time
For now, only the “Laurel Oak” color option is available for $20, not the “Arabesque” color. | Image: Motorola Announced at CES 2026, the Moto Tag 2 has finally arrived in the US. The Bluetooth tracker with improved battery life over its predecessor, plus UWB sensing for more accurate tracking, is available through Motorola’s site at a special $19.99 launch price (originally $29.99). There are plenty of trackers for Android owners to consider, but the Tag 2 seems tough to beat at this price. I
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