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 topped 400 million monthly active users, adding roughly 50 million in the last quarter. Instagram head…
Sloppy AI Defenses Take Cybersecurity Back To the 1990s, Researchers Say
Sloppy AI Defences Take Cybersecurity Back To the 1990s, Researchers Say Summary At Black Hat USA 2025 (and BSides), researchers warned that rushed, careless deployments of generative AI and AI…
Google and IBM Believe First Workable Quantum Computer is in Sight
Google and IBM Believe First Workable Quantum Computer is in Sight Summary IBM and Google say they are on a path to build industrial-scale, error-corrected 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 project with OpenAI and Harvard Law School…
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 Investigators say evidence points to Russia being at least partly responsible for a recent intrusion into the…
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 US federal court to conspiracy to defraud and…
Cornell Researchers Develop Invisible Light-Based Watermark To Detect Deepfakes
Cornell Researchers Develop Invisible Light-Based Watermark To Detect Deepfakes Summary Cornell researchers have introduced a light-based watermarking technique, called “noise-coded illumination”, that embeds secret codes into the physical light used…
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 strongly criticised a set of late RISC-V patches submitted by Meta engineer…
Stone tools suggest that hominins arrived on Indonesian island much earlier than thought
Stone tools suggest that hominins arrived on Indonesian island much earlier than thought Summary Researchers report stone tools from the Early Pleistocene Calio site on Sulawesi that have been dated…
Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room
Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room Summary A daylight fireball seen across the US southeast on 26 June has been confirmed as…