Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary Slashdot summarises coverage from Futurism and the Washington Post about growing public anger over always-on smart glasses that listen and…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary Researchers from a joint Singapore–Japan team have outlined how to arrange knotted light structures called ‘hopfions’ into ordered, repeatable lattices…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a new $863 million funding round (Series B2) with participation…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A recent Slashdot roundup highlights a 41-page review and several pilot projects that show wave-energy technology has progressed…
Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary Blogger Andy Baio analysed a YouTube Shorts clip from Will Smith showing an adoring concert…
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Reuters reports that Intel amended its CHIPS Act funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to remove earlier project…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Several indie bands have removed their music from Spotify in protest after news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek…
Reports (citing the BBC) say thousands of Instagram and Facebook accounts have been wrongly suspended, leaving users — including small businesses — without profiles, photos and customers. Meta acknowledged a…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an automated offensive-research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses prompts to a large language model (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0),…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon says it cannot comply with Mississippi’s new age verification law because its decentralised software and…
