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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How gene editing could help curb the spread of bird flu  The news: Gene editing could help prevent chickens from catching and spreading bird flu, new research suggests.  How they did it: Researchers…

Microsoft says Chinese state-backed hackers are exploiting a “critical”-rated zero-day vulnerability in Atlassian software to break into customer systems. The technology giant’s threat intelligence team said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that it has observed a nation-state threat actor it calls Storm-0062 exploiting a recently disclosed critical flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center […]

This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Living through the epic rainfall that flooded New York City a few weeks ago was nothing if not a reminder of just how urgently we need to tackle the climate crisis. Fortunately,…

Adyen lost $13 billion in market cap last month when investors scrambled to sell shares after the payments company missed quarterly revenue targets. But it’s not the only one facing the music in fintech. Shares in SumUp, a privately-held European payment technology business that focuses on point-of-sale transactions, are currently are being sold in inside […]

Gene editing could help prevent chickens from catching and spreading bird flu, according to a proof-of-concept study.   Researchers used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to alter the DNA of 10 chickens to resist the bird flu virus and then exposed all of them to a low dose of it. Only one of the 10 chickens caught…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The humble oyster could hold the key to restoring coastal waters. Developers hate it. Carol Friend has taken on a difficult job. She is one of the 10 people in Delaware currently trying…

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I hate going to the gym. Last year I hired a personal trainer for six months in the hope she would brainwash me into adopting healthy exercise habits longer-term. It was…

As applications for artificial empathy expand, guidelines and transparency will be needed to integrate the technology ethically.