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Russia is facing a demographic crisis, but certain regions are reluctant to use dating apps.Russia's Interior Ministry on Tuesday urged residents of the border regions of Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod not to use dating apps as Kiev advances into Russian territory.”We strongly advise against using online dating services as our enemies are actively using them to gather intelligence,” a Russian Interior Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency, according to the Moscow Times.After Western dating apps Tinder, Bumble and Badoo withdrew from the market, Russia's online dating market has been dominated by domestic apps.Russian authorities on…

Design and synthesize DNA and RNA oligosWe designed oligo sequences following procedures reported in ref. 2 using the CURLCAKE software (http://cb.csail.mit.edu/cb/curlcake/). Specifically, we covered all possible DNA 6mers (4096 in total, median occurrence as 5) and RNA 5mers (1024 in total, median occurrence as 10). We also avoided secondary structures, the formation of which during nanopore sequencing will increase the translocation speed further biasing ionic current signals45,46. We generated two independent sequence sets, for both DNA and RNA, with different CURLCAKE random seeds. Such sets represent different sequence contexts: as larger sequence scopes (k > 6 and 5 for DNA and RNA,…

About once a year, I like to take a step back from the news cycle and write about a different kind of platform: productivity tools that use artificial intelligence and other innovations to help people get their work done more efficiently.One year ago this week, I was here Why note-taking apps don't make us smarterIn short, it took us too long to learn that software cannot automate thinking. But I think software can automate thinking. conditions Improve your thinking: To make new connections between ideas, to reduce the number of times your attention shifts from app to app throughout the…

Vulnerability related New research has found that a vulnerability in Application Load Balancer, an Amazon Web Services traffic routing service, could be exploited by attackers to bypass access controls and compromise web applications. The vulnerability is due to an issue in customer implementations and not caused by a software bug. The vulnerability is introduced by the way AWS customers configure authentication on Application Load Balancers.Implementation issues are a key component of cloud security, just as the contents of an armored safe are not protected if the door is ajar. Researchers at security firm Miggo found that depending on how Application…

Google is phasing out its bug bounty program, which offers financial rewards to hackers who find and submit evidence of vulnerabilities in popular applications. The move comes after a decline in the number of vulnerabilities submitted to the program, a Google spokesperson told CyberScoop on Tuesday. Introduced in 2017, the Google Play Security Rewards program was designed to incentivize the identification of vulnerabilities in apps available for download on the Google Play Store, the world's most used app marketplace, which offers billions of apps and games, with more than 113 billion apps and games expected to be downloaded by 2023,…

People in the European Union now have access to alternative app stores thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a new regulation designed to promote competition in the app ecosystem. Like Apple's App Store, alternative app marketplaces offer easy access to the broader world of apps, but instead of apps going through Apple's App Review process, apps on these third-party marketplaces must go through a notarization process to ensure they meet some “fundamental platform integrity criteria,” such as being malware-free. However, each store can review and approve apps according to its own policies. Matters regarding support and refunds are also…

Apple unveiled iOS 18 at its Worldwide Developers Conference 2024 keynote event in June, and the tech giant released the fifth public beta of the software on Aug. 20. The beta operating system brings a lot of new features to the iPhones of developers and beta testers, like more ways to customize your home screen, updates to the Messages app and an updated Siri with Apple Intelligence. Apple said online that the next operating system will be available to the general public this fall.Read more: Everything You Need to Know About iOS 18’s Public BetasMany people won’t get iOS 18 until later this year,…

Setting up a new Windows 11 PC? Whether it's a laptop or desktop, we have some suggestions on how to quickly set it up with all the apps you need.I've been reviewing PCs for many years and tinkering with them my whole life, so I've spent more time than I'd like to admit reinstalling Windows and all of my favorite programs. Over the years, I've found that there are a few apps that I use over and over again, and whenever I buy a new PC, it's a good idea to install those apps.In the old days, we had to…

STORY: For the first time, the Democratic National Committee is giving social media celebrities the credential previously reserved for traditional news organizations.”Well, I'm a content creator. I make TikTok videos in Spanish for the Latino immigrant community here in the U.S. The content is in Spanish, but we talk about politics, social issues, and things like that.”Carlos Eduardo Espina has over 10 million followers on TikTok.Another first for the Democratic National Convention will be that he will play a central role as a speaker.”I think both the left and the right get their information from social media these days, so…

Clinical sample collectionThis study was approved by the Ethics Committees of the Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Centre, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University and the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University. A total of 210 healthy individuals, 323 patients with benign nodules and 326 patients with lung adenocarcinoma were enroled. Cases of lung adenocarcinoma were collected prior to lung resection surgery and had pathological confirmation. Serum from benign nodules was collected from individuals undergoing annual physical examinations. Participants with benign nodules were defined as those with stable 3–5 years follow-up Computed Tomography (CT) scans at the time of…