Summary The Slashdot item links to an Associated Press report outlining growing evidence that the rapid build-out of large, AI-hungry data centres in the US is contributing to higher electricity…
WSJ Finds ‘Dozens’ of Delusional Claims from AI Chats as Companies Scramble for a Fix Summary The Wall Street Journal analysed some 96,000 ChatGPT transcripts shared publicly between May 2023…
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 “nanocrafts”—microchips mounted on light sails—accelerated by powerful…
Autonomous AI-Guided Black Hawk Helicopter Tested to Fight Wildfires Summary An experimental Sikorsky Black Hawk, fitted with autonomous flight controls and AI systems developed by Lockheed Martin and a company…
$1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code Summary Researchers at Koi Security have detailed a coordinated campaign dubbed “GreedyBear” that has stolen over $1 million through a multi-vector…
How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem Summary The Python Software Foundation’s Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, published an 11-page white paper describing the “phantom dependencies” problem and proposing…
Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study Summary A NASA-linked study led by Dr Masayoshi Takashima reviewed 754 medical events from 71 astronauts who visited the International Space Station between…
‘Hour of Code’ Announces It’s Now Evolving Into ‘Hour of AI’ Summary Code.org is rebranding its long-running Hour of Code event as the Hour of AI. The announcement, made by…
AOL Finally Discontinues Its Dial-Up Internet Access – After 34 Years Summary AOL (now part of Yahoo) has announced it will retire its dial-up internet service at the end of…
Microsoft Sued Over Plans to Discontinue Windows 10 Support Summary A California man has filed a lawsuit opposing Microsoft’s plan to end support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025.…
