Nanoparticles Turn Houseplants Into Night Lights Summary Researchers at South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou have developed a simple way to make succulents glow like soft night lights by injecting…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell rolled out AI voice assistants to over 500 drive‑thrus but has seen the system tripped…
Engineers Send Quantum Signals With Standard Internet Protocol Summary In a first-of-its-kind experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania transmitted quantum signals over commercial fibre-optic cables using standard Internet Protocol…
A 56-year-old tech industry veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and himself in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Police found videos showing months of interactions in which ChatGPT…
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access ‘Mature Content’ Games Summary Valve has begun enforcing an age-verification requirement for UK Steam users under the UK’s…
The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ Summary The White House appears to have instructed the General Services Administration (GSA) to put xAI’s chatbot Grok…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary This article explains how two independent Israeli researchers built an automated pipeline (dubbed Auto Exploit) that uses a large language model (Anthropic’s…
An Audit Isn’t a Speed Bump — It’s Your Cloud Co-Pilot Summary Ravi Sharma argues that audits should be welcomed early in cloud transformations rather than treated as retroactive roadblocks.…
Ransomware gang takedowns causing explosion of new, smaller groups Summary Law enforcement successes that have disrupted major ransomware operations are having an unintended effect: the ransomware ecosystem is fragmenting. Researchers…
Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug Summary Click Studios has released Passwordstate build 9972 to fix two security issues: a clickjacking vulnerability in the browser extension and…
