uniQure says its one-time gene therapy slowed Huntington’s disease by 75% over three years

uniQure says its one-time gene therapy slowed Huntington's disease by 75% over three years

techkahwa.net | 25 September 2025 Biotech company uniQure reported on 24 September that its experimental gene therapy AMT-130 produced a statistically significant 75% slowing of Huntington’s disease progression at 36 months in patients who received the high dose. These are topline results announced by the company, not yet peer reviewed, and the treatment is not … Read more

INTERPOL operation recovers 439 million dollars from cyber fraud, with the UAE and Qatar taking part

INTERPOL operation recovers 439 million dollars from cyber fraud, with the UAE and Qatar taking part

techkahwa.net | 25 September 2025 INTERPOL announced on 24 September that a months-long operation against online fraud recovered USD 439 million in cash and assets, and the UAE and Qatar were among the 40 participating countries and territories. One of the cases INTERPOL highlighted ended in Dubai, where money stolen through an email scam was … Read more

Shai-Hulud: the npm worm that publishes itself through its victims

Shai-Hulud: the npm worm that publishes itself through its victims

techkahwa.net | 24 September 2025 A self-replicating worm called Shai-Hulud has been spreading through the npm registry since 15 September, stealing developer credentials and pushing infected versions of the packages its victims maintain. On 23 September the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert describing “over 500 packages” compromised and told developers … Read more

Ransomware at a check-in software supplier disrupts Heathrow, Brussels and Berlin airports

Ransomware at a check-in software supplier disrupts Heathrow, Brussels and Berlin airports

techkahwa.net | 22 September 2025 Since the night of Friday 19 September, passengers at several of Europe’s busiest airports have faced long queues and delays after the check-in system many airlines share there went down. The EU’s cybersecurity agency ENISA has now confirmed the cause: a ransomware incident at a third-party supplier, not at the … Read more

4.74 in MSA and 2.73 in Levantine: The Number That Sums Up the Arabic Evaluation Crisis

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Ehab Saleh | techkahwa.net Model released: August 2025 | Published: September 14, 2025 The numbers first An independent evaluation of ALLaM 34B through the HUMAIN Chat interface, judged by three separate frontier models (GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4), over 23 prompts repeated five times each for 115 total responses: Category Score out of … Read more

iPhone Air is 5.6mm thin, and the real story is inside

iPhone Air is 5.6mm thin, and the real story is inside

techkahwa.net | 10 September 2025 Apple introduced the iPhone Air on Tuesday, 9 September, and at 5.6mm thick it is the thinnest iPhone the company has ever made. It is also the first iPhone that runs entirely on Apple-designed wireless and cellular chips, with pre-orders opening on 12 September and a starting price of $999. … Read more

Brussels fines Google EUR 2.95 billion and puts a break-up on the table

Brussels fines Google EUR 2.95 billion and puts a break-up on the table

techkahwa.net | 6 September 2025 The European Commission fined Google EUR 2.95 billion on Friday, 5 September, for abusing its dominant position in advertising technology. The penalty, roughly $3.45 billion, came with a pointed signal from Brussels: in its view, only a structural break-up of Google’s ad business would fully remove the conflict of interest … Read more