What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary For months users worldwide have reported being wrongly suspended from Instagram and Facebook. The BBC collected hundreds of complaints…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false active‑shooter reports — known as swatting — targeted around a dozen US universities as students…
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 Brian Kernighan (aged 83), co-creator of Unix, spoke at an event whose Q&A was uploaded and reported by The New…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary An article on The Register, republished on Slashdot, warns that aggressive AI web crawlers — driven by…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A large contemporary trial (REBOOT) and related analyses challenge the long-standing routine use…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The US government climate information site climate.gov effectively lost its production team earlier this summer when staff were dismissed and…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary NBC News reports that as generative AI tools produce quick but imperfect results, a new wave of freelance…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline built by two Israeli security researchers—dubbed Auto Exploit—uses prompts to large language models, CVE advisories and open-source…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a new $863 million Series B2 funding round with contributions…
