Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Reuters reports that Intel amended its CHIPS Act funding deal with the U.S. Department of Commerce to remove early project…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary The Guardian reports that five indie bands have removed their music from Spotify after the company’s founder, Daniel…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary For months users worldwide have reported that Meta (Facebook/Instagram) has been wrongly suspending accounts—sometimes business pages with thousands of…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false active-shooter reports — commonly called “swatting” — targeted about a dozen US universities as students…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to wear a specific rose-scented oil…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Unix co-creator Brian Kernighan, speaking at an event in New Jersey, described his one attempt at writing a Rust programme…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at The Register argues that modern AI web crawlers are “strip-mining” the web for…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary Researchers from Singapore and Japan outline a blueprint for creating repeatable, knotted light structures — so-called hopfions — arranged into…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a Series B2 round raising $863 million from investors including…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A recent Slashdot roundup highlights a 41-page review and several pilot projects showing major advances in wave-energy technology…
