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ESET researchers have identified a new threat actor, whom we have named GhostRedirector, that compromised at least 65 Windows servers mainly in Brazil, Thailand, and Vietnam. GhostRedirector used two previously undocumented, custom tools: a passive C++ backdoor that we named Rungan, and a malicious Internet Information Services (IIS) module that we named Gamshen. While Rungan has the capability of executing …

Potatoes aren’t the problem — unless you eat them this way, study says  San Francisco Chronicle Eating too much of this favorite food could increase your diabetes risk  National Geographic Eat Your Potatoes Mashed, Boiled or Baked, but Hold the Fries  Harvard Magazine Potatoes are healthy, but french fries? Not so much, new study suggests.  The Washington Post What scientists discovered about french fries …

Potatoes are healthy, but french fries? Not so much, new study suggests.  The Washington Post A salty twist: Diabetes risk study says french fries are a culprit  NBC News Eating chips three times a week raises type 2 diabetes risk by 20%, study finds  The Guardian Three weekly servings of French fries linked to higher diabetes risk  BMJ Group Type 2 Diabetes: Eating Fries …

ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 6 (UPI) — French fries, but not mashed, baked or boiled potatoes, were linked Wednesday to type 2 diabetes in a study whose authors say food preparation, as well as the kinds of foods eaten, makes a difference in reducing health risks. Researchers at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health also found that by …

You say potato, I say tomato? Turns out one helped create the other: Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and potato-like plants in South America gave rise to the modern day spud around nine million years ago, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Cell. Co-author Loren Rieseberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia, told AFP …

Meet the potato’s unexpected ancestor: the tomato.  That’s right, a fruit. Potatoes and tomatoes don’t look alike, smell alike or taste alike, but in a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists said that the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor around 9 million years ago. “We’ve finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from,” corresponding author Sanwen …

Random mating between wild tomato plants and potato-like species 8 million to 9 million years ago may have given rise to one of our favorite carbs: the potato. Together with 107 extant, wild potato species, the cultivated potatoes we know today (Solanum tuberosum) belong to the lineage Petota. New research suggests that this lineage, or group of closely related species, …

That’s it. That’s the news. Genome biologist Sanwen Huang knows a thing or two about potatoes. But his latest potato breakthrough may be his most shocking yet: potatoes are descended from tomatoes. In a Cell paper published today, Huang’s team reports that the modern potato likely emerged about 9 million years ago, when tomato plants married the etuberosum, a potato-like species …