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 nonprofit…
China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build Summary JUNO (the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Experiment) has been switched on after more than a decade of construction.…
Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void Summary Alibaba has developed a domestically manufactured AI inference chip now in testing, aimed at reducing China’s dependence on US-made…
New Python Documentary Released On YouTube Summary An 84-minute documentary traces Python from Guido van Rossum’s 1991 side project in Amsterdam to its role today powering major companies and much…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary Reports from Futurism, TechCrunch and the Washington Post highlight a growing public backlash against “always‑on” AI smart glasses being developed…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary Researchers from an international team (Singapore and Japan) have outlined how to create ordered, repeatable lattices of knotted light —…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has secured an additional $863 million in a Series B2 round from…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A recent Slashdot round-up links to a 41-page review and several project updates showing substantial advances in wave…
Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary Blogging analyst Andy Baio examined promotional clips from Will Smith’s recent concerts and concluded Smith’s…
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, removing earlier project milestones and receiving about…
