Threads Now Has More Than 400 Million Monthly Active Users
Threads Now Has More Than 400 Million Monthly Active Users Summary Meta’s Threads has crossed 400 million monthly active users, adding roughly 50 million in the last quarter, according to…
Sloppy AI Defenses Take Cybersecurity Back To the 1990s, Researchers Say
Sloppy AI Defences Take Cybersecurity Back To the 1990s, Researchers Say Summary Researchers reporting from Black Hat USA 2025 warn that rushed, careless AI deployments are reintroducing old security problems…
Google and IBM Believe First Workable Quantum Computer is in Sight
Google and IBM Believe First Workable Quantum Computer is in Sight Summary Big tech is talking big: IBM and Google say they can build industrial-scale quantum machines with one million…
Boston Public Library Aims To Increase Access To a Vast Historic Archive Using AI
Boston Public Library Aims To Increase Access To a Vast Historic Archive Using AI Summary The Boston Public Library (BPL) has launched a digitisation project in collaboration with OpenAI and…
Russia Is Suspected To Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
Russia Is Suspected To Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System Summary Investigations reported by The New York Times indicate that Russian actors are at least partly suspected of…
Do Kwon Pleads Guilty to US Fraud Charges In $40 Billion Crypto Collapse
Do Kwon Pleads Guilty to US Fraud Charges In $40 Billion Crypto Collapse Summary Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to conspiracy to…
Cornell Researchers Develop Invisible Light-Based Watermark To Detect Deepfakes
Cornell Researchers Develop Invisible Light-Based Watermark To Detect Deepfakes Summary Cornell researchers have presented a technique called “noise-coded illumination” that embeds imperceptible, time-varying codes into the light used to film…
Linus Torvalds Blasts Kernel Dev For ‘Making the World Worse’ With ‘Garbage’ Patches
Linus Torvalds Blasts Kernel Dev For ‘Making the World Worse’ With ‘Garbage’ Patches Summary Linux creator Linus Torvalds publicly rejected a late set of RISC-V patches submitted by Meta engineer…
ULA Launches First National Security Mission On Vulcan Centaur Rocket
ULA Launches First National Security Mission On Vulcan Centaur Rocket Summary United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur successfully completed its first national security mission, lofting the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) from…
The 5 biggest mistakes learner microscope owners make
Summary This Live Science feature (Heather Barker, 1 June 2025) identifies five common mistakes novice microscope owners make and explains how to avoid them. The piece emphasises reading the user…