Mastodon has told TechCrunch it cannot comply with Mississippi’s new age verification law because the decentralised Mastodon software lacks built-in age‑verification mechanisms and the non‑profit behind the flagship instances does…
China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build Summary The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Experiment (JUNO) in China has been switched on after more than a decade…
Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void Summary Alibaba, China’s largest cloud‑computing company, has developed a domestically manufactured AI inference chip now in testing to help plug…
New Python Documentary Released On YouTube Summary An 84-minute documentary traces Python from Guido van Rossum’s 1991 Amsterdam side project to its role powering modern AI and major web companies.…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary The Slashdot post summarises reporting from Futurism and the Washington Post about growing public unease with smart glasses that can…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary Researchers from Singapore and Japan have outlined how to arrange “hopfions” — three‑dimensional, knotted polarisation textures of light — into…
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 featuring investors including Nvidia, Google…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A new 41-page review tracks a decade of progress in wave-energy harvesting, focusing on triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) and…
Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary Andy Baio analysed a short clip of Will Smith’s concert crowd and suggests AI techniques…
The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ Summary The White House reportedly instructed the General Services Administration (GSA) to add xAI’s Grok chatbot back to…
