Spacecraft Designed That Could Carry 2,400 People on a 400-Year Trip to Alpha Centauri Summary Engineers behind the Chrysalis concept — the first-place entry in the Project Hyperion Design Competition…
Initiative Seeks AI Lab to Build ‘American Truly Open Models’ (ATOM) Summary The ATOM Project (American Truly Open Models) is a newly launched campaign seeking to create a US-based AI…
Summary OpenAI reinstated GPT-4o as an option for ChatGPT Plus subscribers one day after making GPT-5 the default, following a strong user backlash. CEO Sam Altman said Plus users will…
Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It’s ‘Nearly Unusable’ For Enterprise Summary Independent red teams quickly demonstrated that GPT-5’s safety guardrails can be bypassed. Two firms — NeuralTrust and…
UK Courts Service ‘Covered Up’ IT Bug That Lost Evidence Summary A leaked internal report alleges that HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) took years to react to an IT…
Net Neutrality Advocates Won’t Appeal Loss Summary Advocacy groups including Free Press, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, New America’s Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge have chosen not…
Smartwatches Offer Little Insight Into Stress Levels, Researchers Find Summary A recent study reported via The Guardian and summarised on Slashdot examined whether consumer smartwatches truly reflect users’ stress. Researchers…
NASA Crew-10 Astronauts Depart Space Station After Five-Month Mission Summary NASA’s Crew-10 undocked from the International Space Station after a 146-day (five-month) mission. The four-person team — Nichole Ayers, Anne…
Japanese Company Staff Implicated In Alleged Theft of Key TSMC Technology Summary Taiwanese prosecutors have detained three current and former employees of TSMC on suspicion of stealing trade secrets linked…
California Successfully Tests ‘Virtual Power Plant’, Drawing Power From Batteries in 100,000 Homes Summary California’s largest utilities ran a record test of a virtual power plant (VPP) by tapping residential…
