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BROWSER EXTENSIONS TURN NEARLY 1 MILLION BROWSERS INTO WEBSITE-SCRAPING BOTS

Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

The 245 extensions, available for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, have racked up nearly 909,000 downloads, The common thread among all of them: They incorporate MellowTel-js, an open source JavaScript library that allows developers to monetize their extensions

#Trojans #Virus #Security #Browsers

arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Ars Technica · Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping botsBy Dan Goodin
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Knowing the #symptoms of this #vaccine-preventable #disease can help reduce its chance of spreading. Here is a comparison of #measles symptoms in children & adults.

According to the [fmr] #CDC, measles symptoms appear 7 to 14 days after contact with the #virus & typically include high fever, cough, runny nose & watery eyes. Measles rash appears 3 to 5 days after the first symptoms.

Nipah Outbreak Alert In Kerala: One Death Suspected, 345 Under Surveillance As Three Districts in India On High Alert

"In a first-ever initiative, 26 specialist response committees have been deployed in every affected district. These consist of task forces for epidemiological surveillance, hospital readiness, public communication, and coordination with law enforcement."

msn.com/en-in/health/other/nip

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'Infection outbreak' of #parvovirus in #cincinnati Hamilton County, #Ohio health officials say

The Mayo Clinic says children infected with parvovirus may also exhibit the face rash, which is red on light-colored skin and can be purplish and harder to see on darker-colored skin. Over time, a second rash can form on the arms, legs, chest, back and buttocks of the child, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Adults with parvovirus infections are more likely to get painful, swollen or stiff joints; joint symptoms can be more common in women than men, according to the Mayo Clinic. Those symptoms often affect the hands, wrists, knees, ankles and feet and can last roughly one to three weeks. #health #virus

wcpo.com/news/local-news/infec

WCPO 9 Cincinnati · 'Infection outbreak' of parvovirus in Hamilton County, health officials sayBy Felicia Jordan

I really dislike the term social distancing because it implies an inherent social hit with following a basic pandemic safety measure, and not only does that not have to be a problem with thoughtful implementation of such measures, but also following such safety measures helps disabled people among others to be less socially isolated. Thus not exerting the effort to physically distance oneself in appropriate ways contributes to socially distancing and isolating disabled people, among others, while simultaneously encouraging people to use the excuse that observing these safety measures inherently socially isolates them. This is not to say that making the implementation of such safety measures compatible with one‘s social life is necessarily always effortless, but that not observing such safety measures should be seen as the agent of social isolation of disabled people that it undeniably is.

Which is to say, that if you want to have a party or host an event, you should be making the effort to mask and/or host an outdoor event and/or stand a few extra feet away from people and/or have a remote attendance option, and asking others to do the same.

Mosquito in Cincinnati neighborhood positive for West Nile virus

A mosquito in Madisonville has tested positive for West Nile virus, the #Cincinnati Health Department announced.

It's the first time this year so far that West Nile has been positively detected in the Greater Cincinnati area. #Ohio #Virus #WestNile

Madisonville is one of the 52 neighborhoods of Cincinnati.

wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamil

WCPO 9 Cincinnati · Mosquito in Madisonville positive for West Nile virusBy Felicia Jordan

Covid-19 cases are rising in Bangladesh. If I remember correctly, two people died from Covid in Dhaka yesterday. I fear the situation is worse than it seems, as most people aren’t getting tested. I really don’t want to go through another lockdown.

#Microbe with bizarrely tiny #genome may be evolving into a #virus
The newly discovered microbe provisionally known as #Sukunaarchaeum isn’t a virus. But like viruses, it seemingly has one purpose: to make more of itself. Most of Sukunaarchaeum’s mere 189 protein-coding genes are focused on replicating its own genome; it must steal everything else it needs from its host Citharistes regius, a dinoflagellate.
science.org/content/article/mi

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamavirus

"Mamavirus is a large and complex virus in the Group I family Mimiviridae. The virus is exceptionally large, and larger than many bacteria. Mamavirus and other mimiviridae belong to nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus family. Mamavirus can be compared to the similar complex virus mimivirus; mamavirus was so named because it is similar to but larger than mimivirus"

#virus
#science
#big
#mama

en.wikipedia.orgMamavirus - Wikipedia