Jellyfish Swarm Forces French Nuclear Plant To Shut
Jellyfish Swarm Forces French Nuclear Plant To Shut Summary A French nuclear power station at Gravelines temporarily shut four units on 11 August 2025 after a large swarm of jellyfish…
LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find
LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Summary Researchers from the University of Arizona (preprint arXiv:2508.01191) analysed chain-of-thought (CoT) large language models in a controlled environment to…
‘Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work At Chipotle.’
A New York Times piece highlighted by Slashdot profiles recent computer science graduates who expected high-paying entry-level tech roles but are struggling to land offers. Graduates such as Manasi Mishra…
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World Summary Former NSA and US Cyber Command chief Paul Nakasone, now an OpenAI board member, told Defcon attendees in…
Reddit Will Block the Internet Archive
Reddit Will Block the Internet Archive Summary Reddit says it has discovered AI companies scraping its content via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and will restrict the Archive’s ability to…
America’s Clean Hydrogen Dreams Are Fading, Again
America’s Clean Hydrogen Dreams Are Fading, Again Summary Congress shortened the qualification window for a Biden-era clean hydrogen tax credit, requiring projects to be under construction by the end of…
Promising Linux Project Dies After Dev Faces Harassment
Kapitano, a GTK4 front-end for the ClamAV scanner created by developer ‘zynequ’, has been abandoned after the author faced sustained personal attacks from a user. The dispute began when a…
Biochar From Human Waste Could Solve Global Fertilizer Shortages, Study Finds
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
Ford Announces Investment To Bring Affordable EVs To Market Summary Ford has announced a new EV production system and a Universal Electric Vehicle Platform designed to bring lower-cost electric vehicles…
Nvidia and AMD To Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues To US Government
Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government Summary In an unusual arrangement to secure export licences, the US administration will receive 15% of…