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 chips to detect…
Wine 10.13 Released Summary Wine 10.13 has been released following a one-month pause. The update adds a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab for the Joystick Control Panel, introduces new cryptographic…
‘Yubin Archive’ Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Illegal Study Materials Group Cancelled For 330K Members Summary South Korean authorities have arrested the operator of “Yubin Archive”, a Telegram-based pirate library that…
Sam Altman’s Brain Chip Venture Is Mulling Gene Therapy Approach Summary Bloomberg reports that Sam Altman’s brain-computer-interface venture (referred to as Merge Labs) is exploring a gene-therapy route to improve…
Y. Wang et al. reply Summary This Matters Arising reply by Yunxia Wang and co‑authors responds to two recent critiques (Hoang et al. and Sheil et al.) challenging the accuracy…
Sam Altman Says ‘Yes,’ AI Is In a Bubble Summary OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters that, in his view, AI investment has entered bubble territory. He said investors are…
Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation Summary Proton has started moving parts of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland in response to proposed Swiss surveillance…
Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots That Change By ‘Consuming’ Other Robots Summary Researchers at Columbia University, 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 — an epigenetic…
Another Linux Distro Is Shutting Down Summary Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distribution focused on system administration, system rescue and network diagnostics, has announced it is shutting down. The distro offered…
