Elevation-of-Privilege Vulns Dominate Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday contains fixes for 111 unique CVEs. The standout issue is the large proportion of elevation-of-privilege (EoP) flaws —…
China Questions Security of AI Chips From NVIDIA, AMD Summary China has publicly demanded that NVIDIA prove its AI processors — especially the H2O line — contain no backdoors after…
Summary Nature Briefing (11 August 2025) — Flora Graham reports that a new executive order from US President Donald Trump could transfer decisive control of federal science funding from traditional…
‘A whole body of health-equity research is being disappeared’ — why I resigned from the NIH Summary Vani Pariyadath, formerly chief of the behavioural- and cognitive-neuroscience branch at the US…
AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back Summary Preprint servers are seeing an increase in submissions that appear to be produced or heavily assisted by large language…
Trump’s chief science adviser faces a storm of criticism: what’s next? Summary Michael Kratsios, appointed as President Trump’s chief science adviser and head of the White House Office of Science…
Margaret Boden obituary: cognitive scientist who explored how machines might emulate human imagination Summary Margaret Ann Boden, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, has died aged 89.…
How Paris dealt with lightning in the Age of Enlightenment Summary This short News & Views piece is a retrospective look at the emergence and use of “para-tonnerres” (early lightning…
Study how screen time affects circadian rhythms Summary This correspondence in Nature (12 August 2025) by Fouzia Kiran, Yaping Jin, Yalin Yuan and colleagues summarises evidence linking excessive screen time…
Europe must safeguard climate data following NASA cuts Summary Bernard Pinty and Jean-Noël Thépaut warn that US President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget proposal — which would cut NASA funding by…
