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Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Four people have been arrested in South Korea for allegedly hacking more than 120,000 video cameras in homes and businesses and using the footage to make sexually exploitative materials for an overseas website. Police announced the arrests on Sunday, saying the accused exploited the Internet Protocol (IP) cameras' vulnerabilities, such as simple passwords. read more


The Trump administration is backing Monsanto in its effort to convince the Supreme Court to shield the company from liability over cancer claims related to its Roundup weedkiller, a move that could anger Trump allies in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. read more


Dec 2 (Reuters) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's drug evaluation chief, Richard Pazdur, is set to retire just weeks after taking the new role, a spokesperson for the health regulator said on Tuesday. Pazdur, the agency's veteran oncology chief, took over the role on November 11, replacing George Tidmarsh after he resigned amid serious concerns about his personal conduct. "We respect Dr. Pazdur's decision to retire and honor his 26 years of distinguished service at the FDA," the spokesperson said in a statement. read more


A man has become the seventh person to be left HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. Significantly, he is also the second of the seven who received stem cells that were not actually resistant to the virus, strengthening the case that HIV-resistant cells may not be necessary for an HIV cure. "Seeing that a cure is possible without this resistance gives us more options for curing HIV," says Christian Gaebler at the Free University of Berlin. Five people have previously become free of HIV after receiving stem cells from donors who carried a mutation in both copies of a gene encoding a protein called CCR5, which HIV uses to infect immune cells. This led scientists to conclude that having two copies of the mutation, which completely removes CCR5 from immune cells, was crucial for curing HIV. "The belief was that using these HIV-resistant stem cells was essential," says Gaebler. read more


Monday, December 01, 2025

Mike Plante could hardly believe his eyes when he discovered how much his health insurance premiums will go up next year. read more


Comments

Maybe all the greens can be redesigned so they slope into the hole.

But we all know that the greatest golfer in history, Kim Jong-il, is gone:

www.espn.com

Kim shot 38 under, including 11 holes-in-one, at the 7,700-yard championship course at Pyongyang in the VERY FIRST golf round of his life, according to North Korean state media. This was in 1994, when Kim was 52 years old. Even more impressive, Kim stood just 5-foot-3, yet he was able to overpower a course as long as any ever played in major championship history. Who knows how good Kim could have been if he had taken up the sport earlier? Who knows how many times he bested 38 under in the 17 years since his first round?

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