Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary Reports from Futurism and the Washington Post describe growing public anger over always-on smart glasses that listen and record —…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary An international research team from Singapore and Japan has published a blueprint for arranging exotic, knot-like patterns of light called…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has secured an additional $863 million from a broad group of investors…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A new 41-page review distils a decade of advances in wave-energy harvesting, focusing on triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) and…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an automated pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and open-source patches…
Scammer steals $1.5 million from Baltimore by spoofing city vendor Summary Baltimore’s accounts payable department made more than $1.5 million in fraudulent payments after a scammer successfully spoofed a legitimate…
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials Summary Amazon disclosed it disrupted a watering-hole campaign run by Russia-linked APT29 (also known as Cozy Bear / Midnight Blizzard) that…
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Summary Opinion: AI-powered crawlers are dramatically increasing bot traffic and “strip-mining” websites for content to…
AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says Summary The GMP (GNU Multiple Precision) project reports that two AMD Ryzen 9950X CPUs allegedly failed…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ Summary Linux kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds updated the kernel’s MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained.” The change signals he will…
