Physicists Create Quantum Radar That Could Image Buried Objects Summary Researchers have demonstrated a prototype quantum radar that uses a cloud of Rydberg cesium atoms in a glass cell to…
Mozilla Under Fire For Firefox AI ‘Bloat’ That Blows Up CPU and Drains Battery Summary Firefox 141 added an AI-powered “smart tab grouping” feature that uses a local inference process…
Musk Threatens ‘Immediate’ Legal Action Against Apple Over Alleged Antitrust Violations Summary Elon Musk has announced that xAI will take “immediate” legal action against Apple, accusing the company of antitrust…
Summary In this World View piece, Vani Pariyadath, former chief of the behavioural and cognitive neuroscience branch at the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), explains why she resigned…
Margaret Boden obituary: cognitive scientist who explored how machines might emulate human imagination Summary Margaret Ann Boden (died aged 89) was a pioneering polymath in artificial intelligence whose work united…
How Paris dealt with lightning in the Age of Enlightenment Summary This short archival piece in Nature revisits eighteenth-century Paris’s encounter with lightning and the spread of para-tonnerres (lightning rods).…
BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown Summary US law enforcement agencies say they “disrupted” the Russia-linked BlackSuit (also known as Royal) ransomware operation by seizing…
Biochar From Human Waste Could Solve Global Fertiliser Shortages, Study Finds Summary A Cornell University study published in PNAS finds that producing biochar from solid human excrement could supply up…
Ford Announces Investment To Bring Affordable EVs To Market Summary Ford has unveiled a new production approach and a Universal Electric Vehicle Platform intended to bring a family of lower-cost…
Nvidia and AMD To Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues To US Government Summary In a highly unusual arrangement to secure export licences, Nvidia and AMD have agreed to…
