What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary At a talk at New Jersey’s InfoAge Science and History Museums, 83-year-old Brian Kernighan—co-creator of Unix—recounted his one attempt at…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary The piece summarises concerns that modern AI web crawlers are aggressively scraping the internet to feed Large…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Content Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline developed by two independent Israeli security researchers — dubbed Auto Exploit — uses LLM prompts, CVE…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary The Slashdot item summarises reporting from Futurism and the Washington Post about growing public anger over always-on smart glasses that…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary Researchers from teams in Singapore and Japan have outlined a blueprint for creating ordered arrays of knotted light — so-called…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has secured an additional $863 million in a Series B2 round backed…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A new 41-page review traces ten years of advances in wave (blue) energy, focusing on triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs)…
Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary Blogging analyst Andy Baio examined a short YouTube clip from Will Smith’s tour and suggests…
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Content Summary Intel amended its CHIPS-era funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to drop earlier project milestones and received…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie bands have recently removed their music from Spotify after news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek led…
