Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary AI web crawlers—led by bots from Meta, Google and OpenAI—are increasingly aggressive, generating huge traffic surges that…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The US government climate information site climate.gov had its production team dismissed earlier in the summer and, while the site…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline developed by two Israeli security researchers (Nahman Khayet and Efi Weiss) used an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0) plus…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary An international team (Singapore and Japan) has outlined a blueprint for building ordered arrays of knotted light structures called hopfions…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed an $863 million funding round that includes major tech names…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A recent Slashdot roundup links to a 41-page review and several industry updates showing marked progress in wave-energy…
Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary Blogger Andy Baio analysed a Will Smith concert clip and suggests AI may have been…
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Intel amended its CHIPS Act funding deal with the U.S. Department of Commerce to remove earlier project milestones and received…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie bands have pulled their music from Spotify in response to news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary BBC reporting and a Slashdot aggregation detail months of complaints from thousands of Facebook and Instagram users who say…
