OpenAI’s GPT-5 Sees a Big Surge in Enterprise Use
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Sees a Big Surge in Enterprise Use Summary OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5 has seen a rapid uptick in enterprise adoption despite some early user complaints about its user…
Virtual Power Plants: Where Home Batteries are Saving Americans from Blackouts
Virtual Power Plants: Where Home Batteries are Saving Americans from Blackouts Summary Puerto Rico, facing dozens of outages this summer, has seen roughly one in ten homes adopt rooftop solar…
Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions
Matt Asay, writing in InfoWorld and highlighted on Slashdot, argues that corporate contributions underpin much of modern open source infrastructure. Using empirical commit and kernel data, he points to heavy…
AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast
AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast Summary The Slashdot piece summarises an Axios report on how generative AI is changing the cyber‑security landscape. Several vendors showcased new…
Researchers Solve Long-Standing Mystery After Voyager’s 1986 Flyby of Uranus
Researchers Solve Long-Standing Mystery After Voyager’s 1986 Flyby of Uranus Summary A University of Houston-led study, reported via ScienceDaily and published in AGU Geophysical Research Letters, finds that Uranus emits…
Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots
Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots Summary Illinois has enacted a ban on the use of artificial intelligence in mental‑health therapy. Licensed therapists within the…
Seagate ‘Spins Up’ a Raid on a Counterfeit Hard Drive Workshop
Seagate ‘Spins Up’ a Raid on a Counterfeit Hard Drive Workshop Summary Seagate’s security teams in Singapore and Malaysia, working with Malaysian authorities, raided a warehouse outside Kuala Lumpur in…
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry?
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry? Summary Researchers in the Polyzos group at the University of Melbourne report a new class of photocatalysts…
AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill
Summary Peak, a surprise co-op hit created by Aggro Crab and Landfall, has sold millions of copies this summer. Its success has made it a target for low-effort copycats —…
How Maclaren Racing Gets From the Browser to the Track
How Maclaren Racing Gets From the Browser to the Track Summary In an interview at Google’s “There’s No Place Like Chrome” event, Dr Lisa Jarman of McLaren Racing describes how…