AI can now read and edit DNA. That has tremendous upside, medically. But it also has enormous dangers, including deepfaked biological viruses.

From AI models to synthetic DNA screening and outbreak surveillance, there are several points where emerging biological risks ...

Researchers used AI to design working bacteriophages for the first time, raising questions about antibiotic resistance and biosecurity.

For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to generate 16 brand-new, previously undetected viruses. These new synthesized viral genomes are unique, and instead of infecting humans, they ...

Researchers have crossed a striking new threshold in generative biology: they used AI to design entire viral genomes, turned those digital designs into physical DNA, and recovered viruses that could ...

Scientists have crossed a threshold in artificial intelligence: using the technology, researchers have created real viruses ...

Long before cyber warfare became a global threat, a single piece of malware quietly infiltrated Iran's most heavily protected nuclear facility. This video tells the incredible true story of ...

Video games as a service is a popular model among game publishers. Why sell a game with a beginning, middle, and end when you can just keep producing content for the same game and keep audiences (and ...

CLIFTON, Texas (KWTX) - Police in Clifton arrested a man who allegedly scammed a woman out of $25,000. The woman received a pop-up on her computer saying she had a virus and needed to call a certain ...

Last month, a pair of viruses seized the headlines. First came a hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship, which caused as many as 13 infections, three of which were fatal. Then an Ebola outbreak ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Global health officials are tracking an outbreak of Ebola caused by a rare species of orthoebolavirus called the Bundibugyo virus that has so far killed more than 130 people and infected more than 500 ...