What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary The Slashdot item summarises a BBC investigation and widespread user reports that tens of thousands of Facebook and Instagram…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato says Universal Music Group (UMG) has issued a raft of automated…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false active-shooter reports targeted about a dozen US universities as students returned to campus. The FBI…
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 rose-scented oil on…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary At a talk recorded at New Jersey’s InfoAge Science and History Museums, 83‑year‑old Brian Kernighan — co‑creator of Unix and…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli security researchers built an AI-powered pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches to…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary Recent coverage highlights growing public anger over so‑called ‘always‑on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record conversations. The story focuses…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary Researchers from an international team in Singapore and Japan have outlined how to create ordered, repeatable lattices of knotted light—so-called…
Fusion power company CFS raises $863M from Google, Nvidia and many others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a Series B2 round worth $863 million with participation from Nvidia,…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A recent 41-page review (first deployed around 2014) and accompanying news coverage distil a decade of progress in…
