EU Commission Approves $4.8 Billion Prosus’ Takeover of Just Eat Takeaway Summary Prosus has won conditional approval from the European Commission for its $4.8 billion (around €4.1 billion) bid to…
GM Plans Renewed Push On Driverless Cars After Cruise Debacle Summary General Motors is reviving its autonomous driving programme, tapping former Cruise staff and other industry hires to design a…
Trump Calls Intel CEO a ‘Success’ After Demanding Resignation Summary President Donald Trump publicly reversed course days after calling for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s immediate resignation over past ties to…
The Dead Need Right To Delete Their Data So They Can’t Be AI-ified, Lawyer Says Summary Legal scholar Victoria Haneman argues U.S. law should grant estates a time-limited right to…
Jellyfish Swarm Forces French Nuclear Plant To Shut Summary The Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France automatically shut four units after a large swarm of jellyfish clogged its cooling…
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) style large language models truly perform logical reasoning or…
Amazon’s Starlink Competitor Tops 100 Satellites Summary After four weather-related delays, Amazon successfully launched 24 more Kuiper internet satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, bringing its Kuiper constellation to 102…
UK.gov’s nuclear strategy is ‘slow, inefficient, and costly’ Summary An independent taskforce commissioned by the UK government has issued a scathing interim report describing the nation’s approach to nuclear regulation…
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World Summary Former NSA and US Cyber Command chief Paul Nakasone told the Defcon security conference that technology companies will…
Reddit Will Block the Internet Archive Summary Reddit says it has identified AI companies scraping Reddit content via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and will stop the Archive from indexing…
