New Brain Device Is First To Read Out Inner Speech
New Brain Device Is First To Read Out Inner Speech Summary A new brain–computer interface decodes ‘inner speech’ — the words people silently think — using sensors implanted in the…
Arctic Glaciers Face ‘Terminal’ Decline As Microbes Accelerate Ice Melt
Arctic Glaciers Face ‘Terminal’ Decline As Microbes Accelerate Ice Melt Summary Scientists working in Svalbard warn that Arctic glaciers are in a “terminal” decline driven in part by microbes that…
Aging Can Spread Through Your Body Via a Single Protein, Study Finds
Ageing Can Spread Through Your Body Via a Single Protein, Study Finds Summary Researchers have identified a protein variant called ReHMGB1 as a circulating messenger that can transmit cellular senescence…
ADHD Drugs Have Wider Life Benefits, Study Suggests
ADHD Drugs Have Wider Life Benefits, Study Suggests Summary A BBC report summarises a BMJ study finding that drug treatment for people newly diagnosed with ADHD was associated with reduced…
Python Surges in Popularity. And So Does Perl
Python Surges in Popularity. And So Does Perl Summary The TIOBE Programming Community Index for August 2025 shows Python at an all-time high (26.14%), far ahead of C++ (9.18%) and…
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Sees a Big Surge in Enterprise Use
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Sees a Big Surge in Enterprise Use Summary OpenAI released GPT-5 and, despite some user criticism that its chat feel was less intuitive (prompting OpenAI to restore GPT-4…
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 — now has roughly one in ten homes with…
Volkswagen Wants You To Pay Monthly To Unlock More Horsepower
Volkswagen Wants You To Pay Monthly To Unlock More Horsepower Summary Volkswagen is rolling out a paid software upgrade for ID.3 electric cars that increases available power from 201 bhp…
Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions
Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions Summary Matt Asay’s InfoWorld opinion piece reminds readers that many large companies quietly shoulder essential but unglamorous open source work — continuous…
AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast
AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast Summary At Black Hat this year several cybersecurity firms unveiled AI-driven agents and tools that aim to help defenders catch up…