China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build Summary China has activated the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Experiment (JUNO), a large-scale neutrino detector built over more than…
Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void Summary Alibaba, China’s largest cloud-computing company, has developed a domestically manufactured, general-purpose AI inference chip that is now in testing.…
New Python Documentary Released On YouTube – Slashdot Summary An 84-minute documentary tracing Python’s journey from Guido van Rossum’s 1991 side project in Amsterdam to a language that powers modern…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary Recent coverage (Futurism, Washington Post) highlights growing online anger over new “always-on” AI smart glasses being developed by a startup…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary An international team (Singapore and Japan) has published a blueprint for building ordered lattices of knot-like light structures called hopfions.…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a Series B2 round raising $863 million from a broad…
Summary A recent 41-page review (linked from EurekAlert) surveys a decade of progress in wave-energy harvesting, focusing on triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) and hybrid harvesters. The review distils work since 2014…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an AI-powered offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that combines CVE advisories, code patches and prompts to…
Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Summary Alibaba’s T-Head division has reportedly developed a new AI accelerator focused on inference workloads, according to reporting by the…
Summary A security researcher known as Bobdahacker — who recently exposed a McDonald’s ordering-system flaw — discovered serious administration and authentication weaknesses in Pudu Robotics’ backend. Pudu, a major Chinese…
