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A medical examiner's report obtained by the Daily Mail has given details about the young woman's final moments, including how her boyfriend heroically fought the gator.

AleRunner writes: The first fully synthetic cell ("SpudCell") has been created in the Department of Genetics at the University of Minnesota. Strictly speaking, it's described as a "cell-like system constructed entirely from known chemical components that can perform a complete cell cycle." It is able to replicate, but only for approximately five generations. The key advance is that the cell is "built entirely bottom-up from individually purified, non-living components," although it still contains material from E. coli bacteria. "PURE is a defined mixture of 36 purified enzymes from E. coli bacteria," including ribosomes, that provides the infrastructure for genetic replication. CNN has an article on the advance, including interview material with Professor Kate Adamala, who led the research. "I know the full ingredient list of the cell. I know exactly what chemicals, what molecules, at what concentrations," she said. "It is fully defined, which means we can engineer it." "Humans did not create life," notes an anonymous Slashdot reader. "Researchers call it a constructed cell, not 'life created in the lab' but a 'genuine milestone on the road toward that question.' It lacks full autonomy (needs feeding, no independent evolution)." Special thanks to Slashdot readers kemosabi and AleRunner for submitting the story and additional sources, including reports from The New York Times and The Guardian, as well as information from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

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'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg

The WAG, 33, cut a chic figure in the £320 shorts and the matching £540 monogram silk shirt from Toteme.

The sapling, planted with care in the picturesque grounds of Wray parkland and castle in April this year as a 'symbol of hope and resilience', was reported as stolen on Tuesday.

Spanish newspapers have declared that England are no longer a threat at the World Cup after watching Harry Kane rescue the Three Lions with two late goals against DR Congo.

Many fans were left frustrated after the BBC's coverage of England's round of 32 clash against DR Congo cut out unexpectedly for several seconds.

Lexi Hughes has posed topless for a new shoot as her modelling career continues to soar.

A US Navy airman is missing after his helicopter went down in the Arabian Sea, with three others pulled from the water alive, the Navy said Wednesday.

SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world

Daily Mail Sport's Chief Football Reporter CRAIG HOPE was at the Atlanta Stadium to give his verdict on the England players, and you can make your judgments too with our new ratings tool.

The former Deputy Prime Minister hailed the Bee Network set up by the Prime Minister-in-waiting when he was Greater Manchester Mayor.

Rice was taken off in injury time having played a big role in England's turnaround in their World Cup last-32 match, with Thomas Tuchel's side winning 2-1 after two late Harry Kane goals.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com. The new requirement will take effect "over the next month," a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to "tighten how automated systems access Reddit." The Reddit employee wrote: "Old Reddit's logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It's also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in." In a follow-up comment, boat-botany defined abusive behavior as that which violates Reddit's rule prohibiting activity that interferes with the platform's "normal use" or that "create[s] programs or applications" that break Reddit's (controversial) API rules. "By logging in, we get a lot more signal that allows us to detect whether an account is breaking the rules, and then we can block that traffic or enforce those accounts," boat-botany said. Asked why boat-botany scrapes New Reddit less frequently than Old Reddit, the Reddit employee pointed to another commenter's explanation. "[T]he shape of malicious traffic is always changing," the user, Nestramutat, wrote. "It's going to be a constant cat and mouse game[.] As you ban one method, a new one gets developed. It's easy to see abusive traffic in hindsight, but it's harder to pre-emptively block it. Given that they're claiming Old Reddit doesn't have the modern security stack, this is likely proving to be an even greater challenge." Nestramutat said that the login requirement will add a barrier against threat actors. "You're also now attaching an account ID to every malicious request, plus account creation is only available on New Reddit (with the enhanced security stack)." As for how long Old Reddit will exist, boat-botany left the door open for its retirement. "We can't promise it will be around forever, but [Reddit CEO Steve Huffman] himself has said we'll keep supporting it while folks are still using it," boat-botany wrote. "That said, it doesn't have the same modern security tech stack reddit.com has, so we need to tighten security on old reddit to keep it viable."

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Donald Trump claims he's not the only one profiting during his second term after it was revealed he made over $2.2 billion in revenue during his first year back in office.

The Spencer Pratt supporters are proud parents of five-year-old son Rennie David

TAMARA PRENN AT WIMBLEDON: Wimbledon chief executive Sally Bolton stressed that only 'service dogs and security and search dogs' would be allowed in SW19.

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University students heading home for the summer holidays have dumped so much rubbish in their neighbourhood cars can no longer drive down some streets.

Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough