Summary General Motors is reviving its autonomous driving programme, recruiting former Cruise staff and other hires under Sterling Anderson (ex‑Tesla Autopilot) to design an eyes‑free, driverless consumer car. GM is…
Trump Calls Intel CEO a ‘Success’ After Demanding Resignation Summary Days after publicly demanding Intel CEO Lip‑Bu Tan resign over past ties to China, President Trump met with Tan and…
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 BBC reports that EDF’s Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France temporarily shut down on Monday after a large swarm…
LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Summary Recent research summarised by Ars Technica and a University of Arizona preprint (arXiv:2508.01191) argues that large language models (LLMs)…
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.…
Electrolyte Highway Breakthrough Unlocks Affordable Low-Temperature Hydrogen Fuel Summary Researchers at Kyushu University have re-engineered the electrolyte in solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) to create a so-called “ScO6 highway” that enables…
Physicists Create Quantum Radar That Could Image Buried Objects Summary Researchers report a prototype quantum radar that uses a glass cell filled with room-temperature cesium atoms — driven into large…
Researchers Warn of ‘Hidden Risks’ in Passwordless Account Recovery Summary At Black Hat USA researchers from Nokia Bell Labs and Wolt warned that while passwordless authentication (passkeys, biometrics, tokens) is…
Black Hat NOC Expands AI Implementation Across Security Operations Summary The Black Hat USA 2025 Network Operations Center (NOC), led by Corelight’s James Pope and a team of experienced security…
