These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet Summary A new hollow optical-fibre design — described in Nature Photonics and developed by researchers from the University of Southampton…
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) vehicles are moving from…
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure Summary In a short correspondence, Hongfang Lu and Y. Frank Cheng highlight the wider climate consequences of the Nord Stream pipeline ruptures in the…
AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals Summary This short correspondence from Borbala Foris and Jean-Loup Rault argues that recent discussions of AI-agent ethics and alignment have overlooked sentient non-human…
Jaguar Land Rover ‘severely disrupted’ by cybersecurity incident Summary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said its global IT systems were “impacted by a cyber incident” and that it proactively shut…
Moscow reportedly hires hackers who breached city’s school system Summary Moscow city officials have reportedly hired “three or four” young hackers who previously infiltrated the Moscow Electronic School (MES), Deputy…
WhatsApp, Apple warn of highly targeted attacks with zero-day vulnerability Summary WhatsApp has patched a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177) tied to incomplete authorisation of linked device synchronisation messages that could allow…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and principal maintainer of the PHP framework Laravel, urges developers to avoid clever, bespoke solutions that…
In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception Summary Cisco Talos used Shodan to scan the internet and found more than 1,100…
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector Summary Register readers overwhelmingly back a shift away from Microsoft as the default supplier for the…
