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A doctor advising … sleepaway camp? That’s how a 12-year-old diagnosed with lupus found himself laughing on a high-ropes course as fellow campers hoisted him into the air.“It’s really fun,” said Dylan Aristy Mota, thrilled that he got a chance at the rite of childhood — thanks to doctors reassuring his mom that they’d be at this upstate New York camp, too. Dylan felt good knowing if “anything else pops up, they can catch it faster than if we had to wait til we got home.”It may sound surprising but diseases like lupus, myositis and some forms of arthritis —…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — At 100 years old, Lee Grant knows the cost of McCarthyism better than almost anyone else on the planet.One of the last surviving actors to be blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare, the Academy Award-winning performer is speaking out against Florida’s new social studies teaching standards, which critics have warned are aimed at rewriting one of the most repressive chapters in American history.“It’s a lie and a distortion of the truth of history,” Grant said in an interview with The Associated Press.In 1951, Grant’s star was on the rise. But just as her career was taking…
As part of Microsoft’s Ignite conference, Stack Overflow on Tuesday revealed a new set of products that aims to position it as a valuable part of the enterprise AI stack. This new version of the company, built around the Stack Overflow Internal enterprise product, looks to remake its classic problem-solving forum into a tool for translating human expertise into an AI-accessible format. At its simplest, Stack Overflow Internal is an enterprise version of the web forum, but with the additional security and admin controls you’d expect. The new tools are specifically designed to feed into internal AI agents using the…
For more than 20 years, hormone therapy for menopause has carried a warning label from the Food and Drug Administration describing the medication’s risk of serious harms – namely, cancer, cardiovascular disease and possibly dementia.On Nov. 10, 2025, the FDA announced that drugmakers should remove these “black box” safety warnings.The Conversation U.S. asked Genevieve Hofmann, a women’s health nurse practitioner at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, to explain how the decision will affect health care for people going through menopause or postmenopause.How did the FDA’s decision come about?When people think of hormone therapy for menopause, they generally think…
Hollywood legend Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in February 2025. Hackman had been living with Alzheimer’s and depended on Arakawa as his full-time caregiver.Disturbingly, postmortem data suggests that Arakawa died of complications from pulmonary Hantavirus several days before her husband passed. The discordant times of death point to a grim scenario: Hackman was left alone and helpless, trapped in his home after his wife’s death.The couple’s story, while shocking, is not unique. It serves as a warning for our rapidly aging society. The U.S. population is aging, but most Americans are not…
It’s not just you — parts of the internet are down again.A network issue at web security business Cloudflare has disrupted internet traffic and taken down sites such as X for many users.Cloudflare said via its status page that it was experiencing an “internal service degradation” at 6:48 am ET. About 30 minutes later, it said that some services were recovering, but “customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts.”At 7:37 am ET, the company said it’s “continuing to investigate this issue.”Downdetector, a site that tracks website outages, was also briefly down early Tuesday morning.…
Intuit has signed a multi-year contract worth more than $100 million with OpenAI, enabling its tax and financial apps to operate within ChatGPT and expanding the company’s use of OpenAI’s models across its products. Intuit said its tools, such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp, will be accessible through ChatGPT, allowing users to ask questions and complete tasks such as estimating tax refunds, reviewing credit options, or managing business finances. With users’ permission, Intuit’s apps will be able to access their financial data to generate responses and complete tasks, like sending marketing messages or issuing invoice reminders. Customers will…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department. It represents a major step forward for the administration’s dismantling of the department, which has mainly involved cutting jobs since President Donald Trump called for its elimination with an executive action in March. Six new agreements signed by the Education Department will effectively move billions of dollars in grant programs to other agencies. Most notable is one that will put the Department of Labor over some of the…
In the age of vibe coding, almost anyone can quickly spin up a basic app or website.But that doesn’t mean your app is secure. Working with AI as your code assistant can lead to a product that’s pretty on the outside and riddled with risk on the backend.If your code fails to comply with modern privacy laws and other regulations, such as the European Union’s GDPR rules, for example, it could lead to a lawsuit or a fine.Enter Feroot, an AI startup that scans websites and apps to make sure their code is up to snuff with all the latest…
(Reuters) -Medical device maker Medtronic topped Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit and revenue on Tuesday, driven by strong demand for its heart disease and diabetes devices.Investor expectations for medical device makers have remained high in recent quarters, boosted by robust demand for surgical procedures, particularly among older adults, greater physician adoption and advances in technology.Sales in Medtronic’s cardiovascular segment jumped 10.8% to $3.44 billion during the period, powered by its pulsed field ablation portfolio used to treat irregular heart rhythms.Pulsed field ablation is a newer heart procedure used to treat an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation. It can be…