The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ Summary Internal emails obtained by WIRED show the White House apparently instructed leaders at the General Services Administration…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-powered offensive research system, dubbed Auto Exploit and built by two independent Israeli researchers, uses prompts to a large language model…
An Audit Isn’t a Speed Bump — It’s Your Cloud Co-Pilot Summary Ravi Sharma argues that audits should be treated as strategic partners in cloud transformation rather than bureaucratic slowdowns.…
Why scientists are flocking to Substack Summary Many researchers are moving from social media and traditional outlets to Substack, the newsletter platform that lets authors publish long-form pieces, build direct…
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Summary Researchers analysed 2.6 million Bluesky posts published between January 2023 and July 2025 that referenced about 532,000…
Author Correction: Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning Summary This is an author correction to the original Nature paper (published 12 March 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08694-9). The correction, published 29 August…
Ransomware gang takedowns causing explosion of new, smaller groups Summary The ransomware ecosystem is splintering: law enforcement takedowns of major operations have scattered affiliates and encouraged rebrands, spawning dozens of…
China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build Summary More than a decade after construction began, China has started operations of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory…
Summary This On Call tale from The Register describes how a sysadmin (redubbed “Kim”) tracked down wildly inconsistent clocks in an air-gapped lab, discovered the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon…
Cloud computing has become so normal, it’s invisible Summary Timothy Prickett Morgan argues that cloud computing has moved from a shiny new category to a background utility — so pervasive…
