Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots That Change By ‘Consuming’ Other Robots Summary A Columbia University team, partly funded by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), demonstrated tubular modular robots…
Exposure To Some Common PFAS Changes Gene Activity, New Study Finds Summary New research indicates that exposure to certain common PFAS (so-called ‘forever chemicals’) alters gene activity — epigenetic changes…
Another Linux Distro Is Shutting Down Summary Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distribution aimed at sysadmins and system rescue, is shutting down. The distro provided multiple desktop environments (KDE Plasma, LXQt,…
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, allowing anyone to build the…
‘Cheapfake’ AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting People on YouTube Summary WIRED found roughly 120 YouTube channels publishing AI-generated celebrity confrontation videos that use still photos and artificial voiceovers rather than…
Summary A Rho Motion report covering the first seven months of 2025 finds global electric vehicle (EV) sales reached about 10.7 million units, a 27% increase year‑on‑year. China leads the…
Google AI Overviews Linked To 25% Drop In Publisher Referral Traffic, New Data Shows Summary New research from Digital Content Next (DCN) — representing publishers such as The New York…
Chinese State Media Calls US a ‘Surveillance Empire’ Over Trackers In Chips Summary Reuters reported that US authorities secretly placed location trackers in some shipments of advanced chips to detect…
Wine 10.13 Released Summary Wine 10.13 was released after a one-month break. The update adds a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab for the Joystick Control Panel, support for ECDSA_P521 and…
‘Yubin Archive’ Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Illegal Study Materials Group Cancelled For 330K Members Summary South Korean authorities arrested the operator of “Yubin Archive”, a Telegram-based pirate library that shared…
