Rust’s Annual Tech Report: Trusted Publishing for Packages and a C++/Rust Interop Strategy Summary The Rust Foundation’s 2025 Technology Report and related announcements highlight a year of security and ecosystem…
A Huge $2 Billion ‘Solar + Storage’ Project in California Powers Up Summary One of the US’s largest solar-plus-storage projects — Arevon Energy’s Eland Solar-plus-Storage in Mojave, California — is…
KDE Calls Microsoft’s Copilot Key ‘Dumb’, Will Let You Remap It Soon Summary Plasma 6.4.5 is due on 9 September. KDE Frameworks 6.18 will add support for the Microsoft “Copilot”…
As Electric Bills Rise, Evidence Mounts That U.S. Data Centers Share Blame Summary The Associated Press reports growing evidence that large U.S. data centres operated by Big Tech are contributing…
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 online between May 2023…
Astrophysicist Proposes Paperclip-Sized Spacecraft Could Travel at Lightspeed to a Black Hole Summary Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi (Fudan University) outlines a speculative blueprint in iScience for gram-scale “nanocraft” — essentially paperclip-sized…
Autonomous AI-Guided Black Hawk Helicopter Tested to Fight Wildfires Summary An experimental Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter, fitted with autonomous controls and software from Lockheed Martin and a California firm called…
$1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code Summary Koi Security describes a coordinated campaign by a group dubbed “GreedyBear” that weaponised browser extensions, malware and scam websites to…
How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem Summary The Python Software Foundation’s Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, has published an 11-page white paper and authored PEP 770 to tackle…
World’s first artificial tongue ‘tastes and learns’ like a real human organ Summary Scientists have developed an artificial tongue that senses and identifies flavours entirely in a liquid environment, mimicking…
