Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer Summary Small electric aircraft and eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) craft are rapidly moving…
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food Summary This Nature feature explains how decades of plant genetics research are converging on apomixis — the ability of plants…
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure Summary Ruptures of the Nord Stream natural-gas pipeline in September 2022 released about 465,000 tonnes of methane (S. J. Harris et al., Nature 2025).…
China’s chikungunya virus outbreak is a wake up call
China’s chikungunya virus outbreak is a wake up call Summary The correspondence highlights a major chikungunya (CHIKV) outbreak in China, with more than 7,000 cases reported in Guangdong province since…
AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals
AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals Summary This short correspondence by Borbala Foris and Jean-Loup Rault (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna) argues that recent discussions of AI-agent ethics and…
Jaguar Land Rover ‘severely disrupted’ by cybersecurity incident
Jaguar Land Rover ‘severely disrupted’ by cybersecurity incident Summary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has confirmed a cybersecurity incident that has “severely disrupted” its global IT systems, affecting both vehicle production…
Moscow reportedly hires hackers who breached city’s school system
Moscow reportedly hires hackers who breached city’s school system Summary Moscow city officials have reportedly hired “three or four” young hackers who previously breached the Moscow Electronic School (MES), according…
WhatsApp, Apple warn of highly targeted attacks with zero-day vulnerability
Summary WhatsApp said it patched a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177) that involves incomplete authorisation of linked device synchronisation messages and could allow an unrelated user to trigger processing of content from…
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector Summary Register readers overwhelmingly back reducing Microsoft as the default in the UK public sector after…
Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk
Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk Summary Security researchers at Armis have disclosed ten vulnerabilities, dubbed “Frostbyte10”, in Copeland E2 and E3 refrigeration and…