Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary The article pulls together recent reporting on growing public anger over smart glasses that record audio and video — including…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary Researchers from an international team in Singapore and Japan present a blueprint for arranging knot-like light textures—called hopfions—into ordered crystals…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a $863m Series B2 round with participation from Nvidia, Google,…
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 showing major advances in wave-energy harvesting…
Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary Will Smith uploaded a YouTube Shorts clip of an adoring concert crowd that sparked debate…
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Intel amended its Chips Act funding deal with the US Department of Commerce to remove earlier project milestones and received…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Several indie acts have quietly pulled their music from Spotify following news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek helped…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary For months thousands of Facebook and Instagram users have reported being wrongly suspended or having accounts removed, the BBC…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an automated pipeline—dubbed Auto Exploit—that uses prompts to a large language model (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and…
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…
