Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Mosquitoes may have just met their match: A prescription drug already used to treat a rare genetic disease in humans can make a person's blood poisonous to insecticide-resistant, malaria-carrying mosquitoes. New research published on July 31, 2025, in Parasites & Vectors found that the same drug, nitisinone, can even kill mosquitoes that simply land on a surface sprayed with the chemical. The findings could open up new avenues to stop the spread of diseases like malaria and dengue, especially as more mosquito populations evolve to become resistant to traditional prevention methods. Whether people will willingly offer their bodies as mosquito blood bait, though, remains less clear.

On Wednesday, members of the US Senate Intelligence Committee questioned senior national security officials on how they plan to respond to attacks on voting infrastructure and attempts to influence the election using deepfakes, generative AI, and misinformation. While everyone in the room appeared to agree on what the threats are, senators expressed concern about how exactly government agencies would respond. In a wide-ranging session, director of national intelligence Avril Haines, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly, and FBI executive assistant director Larissa Knapp focused especially on the wide availability of increasingly sophisticated AI tools that make it easier for more people to create convincing and deceptive fake videos and audio. Senators pressed them on what they would do if one of those AI-generated fakes went viral in the heat of a presidential election. "I don't think I have a clearer understanding of who's in charge and how we would respond," said Marco Rubio, a senator from Florida and vice chair of the committee.

"The View" co-host Sara Haines warned Thursday that "everyone should be scared" about artificial intelligence if the experts are calling on AI labs to pause development. "The View" co-host Sara Haines warned that "everyone should be scared" of artificial intelligence if major technical brains are calling for a pause on big AI experiments. Haines said towards the end of their discussion Thursday that "everyone should be scared" and "everyone should be nervous" if the AI experts are pushing for a pause. "When the technical brain, the engineers behind the technology say we need to put a hold on this, something's going on, everyone should be scared," Haines said. Goldberg seemed to agree while co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar said they didn't "trust" the tech experts.

Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Wash., and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., are encouraged by the Biden administration's response to the huge and growing backlog of government documents that need to be processed so that more of them can be revealed to the public. "The failures of the current classification system make our country both more vulnerable and less transparent--it's a lose-lose proposition," Wyden said in a press release Wednesday. "I'm pleased that the Biden administration is committed to reforming the classification system and investing in new declassification technology. I'll continue watching closely to ensure the White House gets it done and ultimately heeds my call to update the executive order governing classification." The executive order, issued back in 2009, looked to address how the internet has changed the items that need to be processed for classification.

As a kid growing up outside of Seattle, Douglas Haines rarely played with Pokémon cards. He remembers his pastor brought a small barbecue to Sunday school for kids to burn their trading cards. The way the church saw it: "Pokémon evolved, and evolution was bad," Haines said. The collectible cards fit into the same banned bucket as Harry Potter and Dungeons & Dragons. As a replacement for the Pokémon cards, the church offered biblical trading cards depicting scenes like Daniel in the lion's den, Haines said.

It is my view that deficiencies in the current classification system undermine our national security, as well as critical democratic objectives, by impeding our ability to share information in a timely manner

The'Outnumbered' panel reacts to Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro being pulled from the set moments before the vice president was set to arrive Ana Navarro, one of two co-hosts who were pulled from ABC's "The View" live on air Friday due to positive COVID-19 tests, has since revealed the results that caused the chaos were false positives. Producers informed Navarro and Sunny Hostin in their earpieces halfway through Friday's broadcast that they would have to leave the Hot Topics table, leaving Joy Behar and Sara Haines to conduct the rest of the show on their own. The remaining hosts often struggled to kill time, at one point taking questions from the audience, but often not being able to hear the questions that were muffled by their masks. Friday's drama was even more pronounced considering Navarro and Hostin were pulled just as Vice President Kamala Harris was on her way to the studio for an in-person interview. Even though Harris made it to the building, producers explained her appearance would end up taking place remotely from a separate room out of precaution.

Since the CompTIA Emerging Technology Community was launched three years ago, its flagship initiative has been releasing an annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies list, focused on identifying which emerging technologies have the most potential for near-term business impact. "Think of the Emerging Technologies Top 10 as our Emerging Technology Community's collective view and collective ranking of what we see as the top emerging technologies that offer a measurable, one-to-three year opportunity for both customers who are implementing these technologies as solutions to their challenges or market opportunities and to IT channel companies who are building those solutions to deliver to the companies," said Mike Haines, director of partner incentive strategy at Microsoft and chair of the Emerging Technology Community's Executive Council, during a recent episode of the CompTIA Biz Tech Podcast where he provided an in-depth overview of this year's list. Listen to the Biz Tech Podcast episode on the Top 10 Emerging Technologies. The Emerging Technology Community developed this year's list by forming a subcommittee that was tasked with researching the technology landscape, assessing the marketplace, and determining if an emerging technology had near-term opportunity for solution providers. The 2020 Emerging Technologies list includes: 1. Artificial Intelligence 2. 5G 3. Internet of Things 4. Serverless Computing 5. Biometrics 6. Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality 7. Blockchain 8. Robotics 9. Natural Language Processing 10.

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Technology solutions built around artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G offer the most immediate opportunities for tech firms to generate new business and revenue, according to CompTIA's third annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report released on Wednesday. Each year, the Emerging Technology Community of CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the global technology industry, releases its list of the top emerging technologies. "Our ranking represents a consensus viewpoint that emerged after some spirited debate and discussion with the community," said Michael Haines, director of partner incentive strategy and program design for Microsoft and chair of the CompTIA Emerging Technology Community, in a press release. "We're not proposing that every solution provider and channel partner needs to immediately add these technologies to their menu of products and services," Haines added. "But these innovations will have a sweeping impact on the business of technology. Companies need to prepare now for the changes ahead."