Promising Linux Project Dies After Dev Faces Harassment Summary Kapitano, a GTK4 frontend for the ClamAV antivirus scanner, has been abandoned by its developer (zynequ) after sustained personal attacks from…
Biochar From Human Waste Could Solve Global Fertiliser Shortages, Study Finds Summary A Cornell University study published in PNAS and reported by The Guardian finds that converting human solid waste…
Ford Announces Investment To Bring Affordable EVs To Market Summary Ford has unveiled a new production system and a Universal Electric Vehicle Platform designed to speed up manufacture and bring…
Nvidia and AMD To Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues To US Government Summary In an unusual move tied to export controls, Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give…
EU Commission Approves $4.8 Billion Prosus’ Takeover of Just Eat Takeaway Summary The European Commission has granted conditional approval for Prosus’s proposed €4.1 billion ($4.8 billion) acquisition of Just Eat…
GM Plans Renewed Push On Driverless Cars After Cruise Debacle Summary General Motors is reviving its autonomous-driving efforts, shifting focus from robotaxis to consumer-facing, eyes-free driving. The company has tapped…
Trump Calls Intel CEO a ‘Success’ After Demanding Resignation Summary President Trump reversed course days after publicly demanding that Intel CEO Lip‑Bu Tan resign over past ties to China. Following…
The Dead Need Right To Delete Their Data So They Can’t Be AI-ified, Lawyer Says Summary Legal scholar Victoria Haneman argues that U.S. law should give estates a time-limited right…
Jellyfish Swarm Forces French Nuclear Plant To Shut Summary The Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France temporarily shut down on Monday after a large swarm of jellyfish clogged its…
LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Summary Researchers summarising recent work (University of Arizona; preprint arXiv:2508.01191) argue that chain-of-thought (CoT) large language models are not genuine…
