Promising Linux Project Dies After Dev Faces Harassment
Promising Linux Project Dies After Dev Faces Harassment Summary Kapitano, a GTK4 frontend for the ClamAV scanner intended to make virus scanning easier on Linux, has been abandoned by its…
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 suggests that converting solid human faeces into biochar could supply up…
Ford Announces Investment To Bring Affordable EVs To Market
Ford Announces Investment To Bring Affordable EVs To Market – Slashdot Summary Ford has unveiled a major push to produce lower-cost electric vehicles by creating a new Universal EV Production…
GitHub head ankles as Microsoft takes biz by the hand
GitHub head ankles as Microsoft takes biz by the hand Summary GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced he will leave the company at the end of 2025 to found another…
WSJ Finds ‘Dozens’ of Delusional Claims from AI Chats as Companies Scramble for a Fix
Summary The Wall Street Journal analysed roughly 96,000 ChatGPT transcripts shared publicly between May 2023 and August 2025, reviewed more than 100 unusually long conversations and identified dozens that showed…
Astrophysicist Proposes Paperclip-Sized Spacecraft Could Travel at Lightspeed to a Black Hole
Astrophysicist Proposes Paperclip-Sized Spacecraft Could Travel at Lightspeed to a Black Hole Summary Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi outlines a speculative blueprint for sending gram-scale “nanocraft”—basically paperclip-sized probes mounted on light sails—toward…
Autonomous AI-Guided Black Hawk Helicopter Tested to Fight Wildfires
Autonomous AI-Guided Black Hawk Helicopter Tested to Fight Wildfires Summary An autonomous Sikorsky Black Hawk, fitted with Lockheed Martin and Rain software, was demonstrated in Victorville, California as an early-attack…
$1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code
$1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code Summary Security researchers have detailed a coordinated campaign dubbed “GreedyBear” that stole more than $1 million by weaponising browser extensions, executables…
How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem
How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem Summary The Python Software Foundation’s Security Developer-in-Residence has published an 11-page white paper and a recently-accepted PEP (PEP 770) that tackle…
It’s Steve Wozniak’s 75th Birthday. Whatever Happened to His YouTube Lawsuit?
It’s Steve Wozniak’s 75th Birthday. Whatever Happened to His YouTube Lawsuit? Summary Steve Wozniak marked his 75th birthday while reflecting on a lawsuit he filed against YouTube in 2020 after…