The setae are bendy and ultra-flexible, allowing them to follow and stick to the contours of the surface they are on — no ...

Bug detection and fixing using prompt engineering and fine-tuning with Llama 3 and a custom mutation-based dataset. Includes a user-friendly interface and performance evaluation metrics.

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Hospitals in England have been "hit by a surge" of norovirus - the winter vomiting bug - adding to mounting pressure on the NHS, health officials say. Data shows there were 784 patients a day in ...

What's worse, the stomach bug is getting harder to treat. For most of the cases in Toronto and Vancouver, no oral antibiotic therapies work. More severe cases require IV antibiotic treatment ...

Researchers studying crustaceans in Vietnam have identified a new "supergiant" sea bug species that bears a surprising resemblance to a classic movie villain. Deep-sea sea bugs, or the Bathynomus ...

A notoriously contagious stomach bug’s spread through Arlington has public health experts urging extra precautions. An alert about a wave of suspected norovirus cases went out to Arlington ...

A high-severity vulnerability in the 7-Zip file archiver allows attackers to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) Windows security feature and execute code on users' computers when extracting ...

The bug caused startup failures on servers with two or more NUMA nodes and was addressed through the release of update KB5052819. The company explained in the KB5052819 support document that "Some ...

No matter how careful you are about animals in your home, or how much care you take when you are outdoors, animal and insect bites and stings are sometimes unavoidable. Fleas, mites, and chiggers ...

Researchers named the supergiant sea bug B. vaderi because of the striking resemblance its head bears to the helmet worn by Star Wars antagonist Darth Vader. B. vaderi is an isopod, a type of ...