‘Cheapfake’ AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting People on YouTube Summary WIRED identified around 120 YouTube channels producing AI-generated celebrity confrontation videos that use still images and synthetic voiceovers rather than…
Global EV Sales Up 27% In 2025 Summary Rho Motion (part of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence) reports that global electric vehicle (EV) sales rose 27% in the first seven months of…
Google AI Overviews Linked To 25% Drop In Publisher Referral Traffic, New Data Shows Summary New research from Digital Content Next (DCN) finds that Google AI Overviews are correlated with…
Chinese State Media Calls US a ‘Surveillance Empire’ Over Trackers In Chips Summary China’s state-run Xinhua criticised the United States as showing the “instincts of a surveillance empire” after Reuters…
Summary Wine 10.13 has been released after a one-month pause. The update adds a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab to the Joystick Control Panel, introduces ECDSA_P521 and ECDH_P521 cryptographic algorithms,…
‘Yubin Archive’ Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Illegal Study Materials Group Cancelled For 330K Members – Slashdot Summary South Korean authorities arrested the operator of ‘Yubin Archive’, a Telegram-based pirate library…
Sam Altman’s Brain Chip Venture Is Mulling Gene Therapy Approach Summary The article reports that Sam Altman’s brain‑chip venture (reported as Merge Labs) is exploring a gene therapy approach to…
New Brain Device Is First To Read Out Inner Speech Summary Neuroscientists have demonstrated a brain-computer interface that decodes “inner speech” — the thoughts we silently form — and transcribes…
Arctic Glaciers Face ‘Terminal’ Decline As Microbes Accelerate Ice Melt Summary Recent reporting highlights research from Svalbard and Greenland showing that microbes living on snow and ice are darkening glacier…
Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation Summary Proton has started relocating significant parts of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland in response to proposed Swiss…
