New Brain Device Is First To Read Out Inner Speech Summary Neuroscientists have demonstrated a brain–computer interface (BCI) that decodes “inner speech” — the thoughts we silently form as words…
Arctic Glaciers Face ‘Terminal’ Decline As Microbes Accelerate Ice Melt Summary Scientists working in Svalbard warn that Arctic glaciers are entering a “terminal” decline driven in part by tiny lifeforms.…
Aging Can Spread Through Your Body Via a Single Protein, Study Finds Summary Researchers have identified a protein, referred to as ReHMGB1, that appears to act as a circulating messenger…
ADHD Drugs Have Wider Life Benefits, Study Suggests Summary A large observational study reported via the BBC and published in the BMJ finds that drug treatment for people newly diagnosed…
Python Surges in Popularity. And So Does Perl Summary TIOBE’s latest index puts Python at its highest-ever position with a 26.14% rating, well ahead of C++ (9.18%) and C (9.03%).…
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Sees a Big Surge in Enterprise Use Summary OpenAI launched GPT-5 and, despite early user criticism about its less-intuitive feel and a temporary rollback of the paid-chatbot default…
Virtual Power Plants: Where Home Batteries are Saving Americans from Blackouts Summary Puerto Rico, facing dozens of outages this summer, now has roughly 69,000 home solar-plus-battery systems that together can…
Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions Summary Matt Asay’s InfoWorld opinion piece argues that large companies quietly do much of the unglamorous but essential work that keeps open…
AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast Summary Recent coverage (via Axios) reports that AI is already changing the cybersecurity landscape. At Black Hat, several vendors unveiled AI-driven…
Researchers Solve Long-Standing Mystery After Voyager’s 1986 Flyby of Uranus Summary New research led by the University of Houston shows that Uranus emits about 12.5% more heat than it absorbs…
