Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a Series B2 round totalling $863 million with participation from…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A newly published ten-year review of wave-energy work highlights major advances in triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) and other wave-harvesting…
Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary Analysis by blogger Andy Baio and reporting summarised on Slashdot suggest that a recent Will…
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Intel amended its CHIPS-era funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to remove earlier project milestones and received about…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie bands have pulled their music from Spotify following news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek helped lead…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary Recent reporting (led by the BBC and summarised on Slashdot) documents waves of apparent, erroneous account suspensions on Meta…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false active-shooter reports — so-called “swatting” hoaxes — targeted about a dozen US universities as students…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers in Japan report that continuous exposure to a specific rose-scented oil applied to clothing for one month…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Eighty-three-year-old Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix, recounted a one-off experience writing a Rust programme during a public talk recorded at…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary This Slashdot item summarises a piece from The Register arguing that modern AI web crawlers are far…
