What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary The Slashdot item summarises BBC reporting that for months thousands of Facebook and Instagram users worldwide say Meta has…
Swatting Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary The FBI is investigating a string of false active‑shooter reports targeting about a dozen US universities as students returned…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to wear a specific rose-scent oil…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary A recent video of an 83-year-old Brian Kernighan talking at New Jersey’s InfoAge shows him describing a single, frustrating attempt…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary The Register reports that modern AI web crawlers are behaving far more aggressively than traditional bots, producing…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A large randomised trial (REBOOT) and accompanying analyses call into question the routine…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The US government climate portal climate.gov — long valued for accessible climate science — saw its production team dismissed earlier…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline called “Auto Exploit,” built by two independent Israeli security researchers, uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a further $863 million funding round with participation from Nvidia,…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A recent Slashdot roundup highlights a 41-page review (published in a scientific journal) that distils a decade of…
