How fungus-farming ants could help solve our antibiotic resistance problem

For the last 60 million years, fungus-growing ants have farmed fungi for food. In their cultivation of those fungi, they've successfully relied on bacteria-produced antimicrobial ingredients to protect their crops from other species of parasitic fungi. Now, researchers say they are looking to these ants to find new ways to stop or slow the evolution of antibiotic resistance that now presents a threat to modern medicine.

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Chrome cripples movie studio Mac Pros

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 12:54:59 +0000

A few days ago, movie editors started reporting that Mac Pros running Avid software were crashing throughout Hollywood.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/BZ_Snk9ZWg4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google made thousands of deepfakes to aid detection efforts

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 12:40:25 +0000

It’s an arms race: as detection methods improve, deepfake-generating algorithms are quickly updated to correct the flaws.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/-p47wfO19Ec” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Match knowingly puts people at risk from scammers, FTC charges

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:37:48 +0000

Match.com allegedly put users on its free version at risk – by not filtering out communications that it knew were from fake accounts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/qoySkY_s2X8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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