Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Intel has amended its CHIPS Act funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to remove earlier project milestones and…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie bands have removed their music from Spotify following news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek led a…
Slashdot highlights a BBC investigation reporting that for months thousands of Facebook and Instagram users have had accounts suspended in error. More than 500 people contacted the BBC describing lost…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary In August 2025 Rick Beato publicly called out Universal Music Group after UMG issued multiple Content ID…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Content Summary A wave of false active-shooter reports targeted a dozen US universities as students returned to campus, prompting shelter-in-place…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to wear a specific rose-scented oil…
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 Grok chatbot…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli duo of independent cybersecurity researchers built an automated pipeline (dubbed Auto Exploit) that uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and public…
Summary Ravi Sharma argues that audits should be treated as strategic partners in cloud transformation, not obstacles. Auditors embedded early can spot design and configuration risks (for example, unencrypted backup…
Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool Summary Researchers used an AI screening tool to evaluate around 15,000 open-access journals and identified more than 1,000 titles as potentially…
