Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-powered offensive research pipeline developed by two independent Israeli researchers (dubbed “Auto Exploit”) uses prompts to a large language model, CVE…
NIST Enhances Security Controls for Improved Patching Summary The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its Security and Privacy Control catalogue (version 5.2.0) to help organisations…
Hackers Are Sophisticated & Impatient — That Can Be Good Content summary Ensar Seker argues that modern ransomware actors operate like professional SaaS businesses: organised, efficient and highly opportunistic. That…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary The Australian Online Safety Amendment Act will, from December, bar people under 16 from having accounts on major…
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet Summary A large meta-analysis mapped DNA methylation changes across 17 human tissues using more than 15,000 samples…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary New data from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) show applications have surged while the number of…
Who is afraid of quantum mechanics? Books in brief Summary Andrew Robinson reviews five recent books that span cybersecurity, extinction and empire, quantum physics, and evolutionary biology. The piece highlights…
Unifying gravity and quantum theory requires better understanding of time Summary This article explains why efforts to quantise gravity have stalled and argues that the crux of the problem is…
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet Summary A new hollow-core optical fibre design — described in Nature Photonics and reported by Nature — replaces the usual…
AI-powered brain device allows paralysed man to control robotic arm Summary News piece by Rachel Fieldhouse (Nature) reporting on a study in Nature Machine Intelligence. Researchers combined a non-invasive brain–computer…
