Virtual Power Plants: Where Home Batteries are Saving Americans from Blackouts Summary Puerto Rico and several US states are increasingly relying on networks of household batteries paired with rooftop solar…
Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions Summary Matt Asay’s InfoWorld opinion piece argues that much of the essential, unglamorous work that keeps open source healthy is funded and…
AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast Summary Recent reporting summarises how generative AI is changing cybersecurity — and how experts disagree on the speed and scale of…
Google AI Overviews Linked To 25% Drop In Publisher Referral Traffic, New Data Shows Summary New research from Digital Content Next (DCN) indicates Google’s AI Overviews are associated with material…
Chinese State Media Calls US a ‘Surveillance Empire’ Over Trackers In Chips Summary Reuters reported that US authorities secretly placed location tracking devices in targeted shipments of advanced chips to…
Wine 10.13 Released Summary Wine 10.13 has been released after a one-month break. The update adds a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab for the Joystick Control Panel, introduces ECDSA_P521 and…
Summary South Korean authorities have arrested the operator of Yubin Archive, a Telegram-based “pirate library” that grew to roughly 330,000 members by sharing textbooks, workbooks, lectures and exam-prep materials. The…
Sam Altman’s Brain Chip Venture Is Mulling Gene Therapy Approach Summary Reports say Sam Altman’s brain‑chip venture (referred to in coverage as Merge Labs) is exploring a hybrid approach that…
New Brain Device Is First To Read Out Inner Speech Summary Neuroscientists have demonstrated a brain-computer interface that decodes imagined or ‘inner’ speech into text. The system uses sensors implanted…
Arctic Glaciers Face ‘Terminal’ Decline As Microbes Accelerate Ice Melt Summary Recent reporting from Slashdot (via The Guardian and associated research) warns that Arctic glaciers are entering a “terminal” decline…
