Something to ponder over your morning coffee......
Researchers have uncovered a security flaw that could allow digital DNA files used by U.S. crime laboratories to be altered without clear signs of tampering.
The vulnerability may affect files produced by laboratory machines since 1995.
One researcher used code created with Anthropic’s Claude to modify a file in about 45 minutes.
The altered data passed through common forensic software without raising warnings.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has released a software update adding digital signatures to help verify files.
The company said there is no evidence the flaw has been exploited, and physical DNA samples remain unaffected.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Ahhh... he landed another job.
Liberal
journalist Scott Pelley was fired by 60 Minutes of CBS News in early
June after he had a meltdown and berated the new management at the
program in front of other employees.
Now he has finally landed a new job and it’s in the most obvious place possible.
He
is going to work in higher education, because of course he is. Pelley
is going to be a ‘Journalist in Residence’ at Columbia Journalism
School.
History of the Polio Vaccine....
In April 1955, in America, the first mass polio vaccination program began with great hope after Jonas Salk’s vaccine was declared safe and effective. Within weeks, children who had received the vaccine started developing paralysis. The problem was traced to one manufacturer — Cutter Laboratories in California. Their vaccine contained live polio virus that had not been properly killed during production. As a result, the vaccine itself caused polio in the children it was meant to protect. In total, the Cutter vaccine caused 40,000 cases of polio, 200 children were permanently paralyzed, and 10 children died. The government had rushed the approval and distribution of the vaccine with insufficient safety checks.
