Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome Summary AlphaGenome is a unified deep-learning model that predicts diverse functional genomic signals from 1 Mb of DNA sequence at base-pair resolution. It…
Multimodal learning with next-token prediction for large multimodal models Summary Emu3 shows that a single next-token prediction objective — the same simple autoregressive task that powers modern language models —…
Surging Cyberattacks Boost Latin America to Riskiest Region Summary Latin America and the Caribbean have become the most targeted region for cyberattacks, with organisations averaging 3,065 attacks per week in…
DPRK’s Konni Targets Blockchain Developers With AI-Generated Backdoor Summary The North Korean APT group Konni is running a phishing campaign aimed at blockchain developers across the Asia-Pacific region (Japan, Australia,…
AI-powered cyberattack kits are ‘just a matter of time,’ warns Google exec Summary Google’s Heather Adkins (veep of security engineering) warns that fully automated, end-to-end AI cyberattack toolkits are likely…
AI Agents Undermine Progress in Browser Security Summary New research from Trail of Bits warns that “agentic” browsers — browsers that run AI agents which act on behalf of users…
Phishing Campaign Zeroes in on LastPass Customers Summary An active phishing campaign began around 19 January targeting LastPass customers with emails urging them to “back up” their vaults ahead of…
Complex VoidLink Linux Malware Created by AI Summary Check Point Research has uncovered VoidLink, an advanced cloud-first malware framework for Linux that appears to have been developed almost entirely with…
LetA defines a structurally distinct transporter family Article meta Article Date: 21 January 2026Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09990-0Article Image: https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-025-09990-0/MediaObjects/41586_2025_9990_Fig1_HTML.png Summary This study reveals that LetA, a previously uncharacterised multipass inner-membrane protein…
Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits Summary Author style: Punchy. This Nature paper dissects how predatory aggression in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus evolved by rewiring noradrenergic (tyramine/octopamine) signalling…
