LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Summary Researchers (University of Arizona, preprint on arXiv) examined chain-of-thought (CoT) large language models and found that their apparent reasoning…
Amazon’s Starlink Competitor Tops 100 Satellites Summary After four weather-related delays, Amazon launched 24 more Kuiper internet satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, bringing its Kuiper constellation to 102 satellites.…
Summary Researchers at Kyushu University report a redesign of solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) electrolytes that achieves proton conductivity above 0.01 S/cm at about 300°C. By heavily doping barium stannate (BaSnO3)…
Physicists Create Quantum Radar That Could Image Buried Objects Summary Researchers have built a prototype ‘quantum radar’ that uses a glass cell of cesium atoms — driven into Rydberg states…
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 attempts to auto-organise tabs using…
Musk Threatens ‘Immediate’ Legal Action Against Apple Over Alleged Antitrust Violations Summary Elon Musk has publicly threatened “immediate” legal action against Apple, accusing the company of behaviour that, he says,…
How to Stay a Step Ahead of a Non-Obvious Threat Summary This commentary explains why business logic vulnerabilities in web applications and SaaS platforms are a growing, often-overlooked threat as…
Java 25 puts 32-bit x86 out to pasture, adds 17 shiny new features Summary Java 25 has reached release candidate (RC) status ahead of general availability on 16 September 2025.…
Promising Linux Project Dies After Dev Faces Harassment Summary Kapitano, a GTK4 frontend for the ClamAV scanner authored by ‘zynequ’, has been marked “not maintained” after the developer faced escalating,…
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…
