MIT-led team receives up to $38 million for disease-monitoring patch
An MIT-led team has received funding from the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health for a four-year project worth up to $38 million to develop a wearable patch that continuously monitors biomarkers of heart disease and sepsis.
MEMENTO study improves book question answering with a 20K-token context
Researchers report in a preprint that MEMENTO raised Qwen3-8B's accuracy from 36.9% to 67.8% across four book question-answering benchmarks while holding no more than 20K tokens in context. The tests included books of up to 2.5M tokens.
CheXPoT study improves AI radiology reports by removing unsupported findings
Researchers report in a preprint that CheXPoT improved the precision of AI-generated chest radiograph reports by checking findings against image evidence and removing unsupported statements.
Chainstack discloses breach affecting customer data and password hashes
Blockchain infrastructure provider Chainstack disclosed Tuesday that an attacker accessed a database containing customer account information and password hashes.
Ballistic Ventures seeks $490 million across two new funds
Cybersecurity investor Ballistic Ventures is seeking $490 million across two new funds, TechCrunch reported, citing regulatory filings.
Barracuda patches flaws that can combine to grant root access
Barracuda Networks warned customers to patch two vulnerabilities that can combine to give attackers root access to affected appliances. CVE-2026-116606 involves an Email Security Gateway authentication weakness that permits global configuration changes.