Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool Summary An AI screening tool evaluated around 15,000 open‑access journals and flagged 1,437 as potentially problematic — titles that may charge…
Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI Summary The Nature Podcast presents an audio long read exploring how scientists search for signs of…
When will life expectancy reach 100? No time soon Summary People are living longer, but the pace of increase in average life expectancy has slowed sharply since the early twentieth…
FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP’s emails as spam Summary FTC chair Andrew Ferguson has written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai after a New York Post report alleged Gmail…
Imgur’s Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner Summary Imgur users have flooded the site’s front page with images mocking parent company MediaLab AI — notably pictures of John…
Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland Summary Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) are pressing ahead with a Microsoft Office 365 rollout despite Microsoft refusing…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors Summary Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is being integrated into Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and smart monitors. Viewers will be able…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0, codenamed “Huffman”, is out. The release adds Vulkan GPU-accelerated video encoding and—most notably—integrates whisper.cpp (Georgi Gerganov’s local/offline…
Stellantis Shelves Level 3 Driver-Assistance Program Summary Stellantis has put its Level 3 driver-assistance programme on hold. Reuters reporting — picked up by Slashdot — says the company paused deployment…
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models Summary Today Microsoft unveiled two in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation system already live in Copilot, and MAI-1-preview, the company’s first end-to-end foundation…
