‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false active-shooter reports hit a dozen US university campuses in late August 2025 as students returned…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Gray Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to wear a specific rose-scented oil…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Unix co-creator Brian Kernighan (aged 83) described a single, frustrating experience trying to write a Rust programme. Speaking at an…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Steven J. Vaughan‑Nichols at The Register argues that aggressive AI web crawlers are “strip‑mining” the web to…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A large contemporary randomised trial (REBOOT) and accompanying analyses reported that routine use…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The federal climate information site climate.gov — whose production team was dismissed earlier in 2025 and whose content has since…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Freelancers and creative professionals are increasingly being hired to clean up and polish AI-generated work that clients find…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI has acknowledged, in the middle of a blog post about mental-health risks, that it scans users’ ChatGPT…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research system developed by two independent Israeli researchers — dubbed Auto Exploit — automates vulnerability analysis and proof-of-concept (PoC)…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A new 41-page review (linked from Slashdot) distils a decade of research into triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) wave-energy harvesting…
