Global EV Sales Up 27% In 2025
Global EV Sales Up 27% In 2025 Summary A CleanTechnica item, citing a Rho Motion report, finds global electric vehicle (EV) sales grew 27% in the first seven months of…
Google AI Overviews Linked To 25% Drop In Publisher Referral Traffic, New Data Shows
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 feature is associated with…
Chinese State Media Calls US a ‘Surveillance Empire’ Over Trackers In Chips
Chinese State Media Calls US a ‘Surveillance Empire’ Over Trackers In Chips Summary Reuters reported that US authorities secretly placed location trackers in targeted shipments of advanced semiconductor chips to…
Wine 10.13 Released
Wine 10.13 Released Summary Wine 10.13 has been released after a one-month break. The update introduces a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab for the Joystick Control Panel, new cryptographic algorithms…
‘Yubin Archive’ Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Illegal Study Materials Group Canceled For 330K Members
Summary South Korean authorities have arrested the operator of “Yubin Archive”, a large Telegram-based pirate library that shared textbooks, workbooks, lectures and exam-prep materials. The channel had grown to over…
Sam Altman’s Brain Chip Venture Is Mulling Gene Therapy Approach
Sam Altman’s Brain Chip Venture Is Mulling Gene Therapy Approach Summary Bloomberg reports that Sam Altman’s brain‑chip venture (referred to in reports as Merge Labs) is exploring a gene‑therapy approach…
New Brain Device Is First To Read Out Inner Speech
New Brain Device Is First To Read Out Inner Speech Summary Researchers have developed a brain–computer interface that decodes ‘inner speech’ — the thoughts we silently say to ourselves —…
Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots That Change By ‘Consuming’ Other Robots
Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots That Change By ‘Consuming’ Other Robots Summary A Columbia University team, partly funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), demonstrated a set…
Exposure To Some Common Pfas Changes Gene Activity, New Study Finds
Exposure To Some Common Pfas Changes Gene Activity, New Study Finds Summary New research indicates that exposure to certain PFAS (so-called “forever chemicals”) alters gene activity (epigenetics). The study links…
Another Linux Distro Is Shutting Down
Another Linux Distro Is Shutting Down Summary Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distribution tailored for system administrators, system rescue and network diagnostics, has announced it is shutting down. The distro offered…