Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots That Change By ‘Consuming’ Other Robots Summary A Columbia University team, partly funded by DARPA, demonstrated tubular modular robots that move by extending telescopic shafts…
Exposure To Some Common PFAS Changes Gene Activity, New Study Finds Summary New research links exposure to certain common PFAS (so-called “forever chemicals”) with changes in gene activity — epigenetic…
Another Linux Distro Is Shutting Down Summary Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distribution aimed at system administrators and system rescue tasks, is shutting down. The project provided multiple desktop environments (KDE…
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). That allows anyone to…
‘Cheapfake’ AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting People on YouTube Summary WIRED identified roughly 120 YouTube channels producing AI-generated celebrity confrontation clips that rely on still images and synthetic voiceovers rather…
Global EV Sales Up 27% In 2025 Summary Rho Motion’s snapshot for the first seven months of 2025 shows global plug‑in vehicle sales reached more than 10.7 million — a…
Google AI Overviews Linked To 25% Drop In Publisher Referral Traffic, New Data Shows Summary New data from Digital Content Next (DCN) suggests Google’s AI Overviews are reducing publisher referral…
Summary Reuters reported that US authorities secretly embedded location trackers in selected shipments of advanced chips to detect diversions to China amid export controls. China’s state-run Xinhua published a commentary…
Wine 10.13 Released Summary Wine 10.13 has been released after a one-month break. The update adds a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab to the Joystick Control Panel, introduces new cryptographic…
Summary South Korean authorities have arrested the operator of “Yubin Archive”, a large Telegram-based pirate library that amassed more than 330,000 members by sharing textbooks, workbooks, lectures and exam-prep materials…
