World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Tenerife Saturday to personally oversee the painstaking process of evacuating more than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus. Addressing the people of the Canary Islands, where the ship will anchor off the coast of its…
CBS News medical contributor Dr. Celine Gounder joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss the rise in inflammatory breast cancer, a rare and aggressive form that’s harder to detect, and what patients should know about early warning signs. Source link
Beijing — A Chinese industry regulator warned users on Wednesday of a “security backdoor” embedded in versions of U.S. artificial intelligence giant Anthropic’s coding tool, Claude Code. The alleged backdoor could enable the software to “transmit sensitive information,” including users’ locations and identity-related identifiers, back to Anthropic’s servers without users’ consent, said China’s National Vulnerability…
Novo Nordisk said Tuesday it will slash its prices for Wegovy and Ozempic beginning next year by up to 50%, highlighting the growing competition among pharmaceutical firms for customers seeking weight-loss drugs. The Danish drugmaker said it plans to offer the medicines for $675 per month starting in January 2027, representing a 50% reduction in…
A United Airlines flight from San Francisco reported a close call with a drone as it was approaching to land in San Diego on Wednesday morning, authorities said. A United spokesperson said Flight 1980 reported a possible drone strike just prior to the plane’s arrival at San Diego International Airport. The flight landed safely, and…
Shopify services were temporarily interrupted as an outage at the e-commerce platform disrupted retailers on Cyber Monday, one of the busiest online shopping days of the entire year. Thousands of Shopify users reported problems with the platform, hindering their ability to do business. Outage reports peaked at 11 a.m. EDT at around 4,000 before tapering off,…
Federal immigration agents arrested 261 beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, during the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, according to official U.S. government statistics that were shared with Congress and obtained by CBS News. The statistics indicate the vast majority of DACA recipients taken into federal immigration…
The Southern Poverty Law Center asked a federal judge on Wednesday to consider sanctioning federal prosecutors, after the Justice Department shared an unsigned and unstamped copy of a superseding indictment against the nonprofit with members of the media. On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced it had obtained a superseding indictment against the SPLC that contained…
As the Department of Transportation begins the process of overhauling the country’s air traffic control system — a $12 billion undertaking — there are already plans to integrate artificial intelligence into it in the future. Addressing fears that AI is meant to completely replace air traffic controllers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told CBS News, “that’s…
Thousands of Spotify users are reporting difficulty accessing the music streaming service, with some customers saying their playlists had disappeared, according to outage tracking site Downdetector. Reports of problems with Spotify spiked on Monday morning, with about 35,000 people telling Downdetector they were experiencing difficulties accessing their music. In a social media post at 9:45…
