Google Research:
Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI  —  Daniel Golden, Engineering Manager, and Fereshteh Mahvar, Software Engineer, Google Research  —  We are updating our open MedGemma model with improved medical imaging support.

In Iran, a series of massacres may be taking place out of sight. More than 12,000 people are thought dead as anti-regime protests enter their third week, according to news reports from the country on Tuesday.  The protests, which began in late December, initially centered on economic issues but have grown in scope and scale. […]

John Sakellariadis / Politico:
President Trump renominates Sean Plankey to be the next director of CISA, which has been running without a full-time chief since Trump's return to office  —  Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) scotched Plankey's confirmation in 2025, reportedly due to a Coast Guard ship-building contract.

Grounded 2's winter update introduces a whole new part of the park, more bugs and weapons, and the Ladybuggy

Anger among New York elected officials grew Tuesday as more details about a City Council staffer’s arrest a day earlier began to emerge.  On Monday evening the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the arrest of council staffer Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez who worked for the past year as a data analyst in personnel services, according […]

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