Guinea-Bissau: Planned US-funded baby vaccine trial blasted by WHOAFP via Getty ImagesThe $1.6m (£1.2m) trial was funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (stock image)A now-halted plan to run a hepatitis B vaccine trial involving thousands of newborns in Guinea-Bissau has been criticised by the World Health Organization as "unethical".The US-funded study had sought to give...

Firefox Is Adding a Free Built-In VPN. Here's What It Means for YouMozilla is updating Firefox with the addition of a free VPN service built into the web browser, confirming reports we first heard about last year.Firefox VPN has been available as a stand-alone paid product, but this feature addition, which arrives with Firefox version 149, makes a free virtual private network available...

An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics Czech ice dancers Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek made their Olympic debut on Monday, an unfathomable feat that takes a lifetime of dedication and practice. But the sibling duo used AI music in their rhythm dance program, which doesn’t break any official rules, but serves as a depressing symbol of how absolutely cooked we are. As Mrázek...

How Iranians are reacting to news of the two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran How Iranians are reacting to news of the two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran Audio will be available later today. Iranian state media showed images of Iranians celebrating the news of the ceasefire, but for many, the deal also means an end to...

Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raises $375M as it expands to enterprise Consumer-facing security tools often focus on one kind of modality, such as password protection, VPNs, or identity management. This forces people to use multiple tools to keep their data private. Cloaked, the company that instead offers a bundle of security and privacy solutions, announced on Thursday that it has...