The Dead Need Right To Delete Their Data So They Can’t Be AI-ified, Lawyer Says Summary Legal scholar Victoria Haneman argues for a time-limited legal right allowing estates to delete…
Jellyfish Swarm Forces French Nuclear Plant To Shut Summary The Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France temporarily shut down after a large swarm of jellyfish clogged its cooling intake…
LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Summary Researchers (University of Arizona, preprint arXiv:2508.01191) examined whether chain-of-thought (CoT) large language models genuinely perform logical inference or merely…
Amazon’s Starlink Competitor Tops 100 Satellites Summary Amazon launched 24 more Kuiper internet satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 after several weather-related delays, bringing the company’s Kuiper constellation to 102…
Electrolyte Highway Breakthrough Unlocks Affordable Low-Temperature Hydrogen Fuel Summary Researchers at Kyushu University have redesigned the electrolyte in solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) to enable efficient operation at around 300°C —…
Physicists Create Quantum Radar That Could Image Buried Objects Summary Physicists have demonstrated a prototype “quantum radar” that uses a cloud of Rydberg cesium atoms in a glass cell as…
Mozilla Under Fire For Firefox AI ‘Bloat’ That Blows Up CPU and Drains Battery Summary Firefox 141 introduced 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 threatened “immediate” legal action against Apple, alleging antitrust behaviour over App Store rankings that he…
How to Stay a Step Ahead of a Non-Obvious Threat Summary Business logic vulnerabilities — flaws in the intended flow of an application — are an often-overlooked risk that grows…
Impact of catastrophic flood might have been exacerbated by river-management programme Summary Barneveld et al. (reported by Alvise Finotello in Nature) analyse the July 2021 River Meuse catastrophe in the…
