Nanoparticles Turn Houseplants Into Night Lights Summary Researchers at South China Agricultural University have shown that injecting a light-emitting phosphor compound into succulent leaves can turn houseplants into soft, glowing…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell’s rollout of AI-powered voice order assistants — now live in 500+ US drive-thrus — has…
Engineers Send Quantum Signals With Standard Internet Protocol Summary In a first-of-its-kind experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated that quantum signals can be transmitted over commercial fibre-optic cables…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary On 5 August 2025, Greenwich police found 56 year old Stein-Erik Soelberg and his 83 year old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, dead…
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access ‘Mature Content’ Games Summary Valve has started enforcing a credit-card-based age verification for Steam accounts in the UK…
Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson Summary Georgia Tech has raised about $70 million from industry this fiscal year — up 28% on last year — making…
UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers’ Data, Court Filing Suggests Summary A recently published filing to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal suggests the UK government’s Technical Capability Notice (TCN) to…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron warned on 29 August 2025 that France and its European partners will respond strongly if any country…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline built by two independent Israeli security researchers can turn CVE advisories and patched code into working proof-of-concept…
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models Content summary Microsoft has unveiled two new in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation system already integrated into Copilot Daily and Podcasts, and MAI-1-Preview,…
