Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots That Change By ‘Consuming’ Other Robots Summary A Columbia University team, partly funded by DARPA, demonstrated tubular robots that extend shafts to move and attach…
Exposure To Some Common PFAS Changes Gene Activity, New Study Finds Summary New research shows that exposure to certain common PFAS (so‑called “forever chemicals”) alters gene activity — an epigenetic…
Another Linux Distro Is Shutting Down Summary Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distribution aimed at sysadmins and system rescue tasks, is shutting down. The project provided multiple desktop environments (KDE Plasma,…
VP.NET Publishes SGX Enclave Code: Zero-Trust Privacy You Can Actually Verify Summary VP.NET has published the source code for its Intel SGX enclave on GitHub (https://github.com/vpdotnet/vpnetd-sgx). By releasing the enclave…
‘Cheapfake’ AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting People on YouTube Summary WIRED found around 120 YouTube channels publishing AI-generated celebrity confrontation clips that rely on still images and synthetic voiceovers rather…
Summary Rho Motion’s latest tally for the first seven months of 2025 shows global electric vehicle (EV) sales reached about 10.7 million units, a 27% increase year-on-year. China remains the…
Google AI Overviews Linked To 25% Drop In Publisher Referral Traffic, New Data Shows Summary New research from Digital Content Next (DCN) — a trade group that includes publishers such…
Chinese State Media Calls US a ‘Surveillance Empire’ Over Trackers In Chips Summary Reuters reported that US authorities secretly placed location trackers in selected shipments of advanced chips to detect…
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, adds ECDSA_P521 and…
‘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…
