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 aeroplanes and eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) craft are moving from…
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food Summary Researchers are on the brink of producing crop plants that set clonal seed — seeds that produce genetically identical…
Veterinarians need to be part of West Nile disease storytelling
Veterinarians need to be part of West Nile disease storytelling Summary This correspondence piece argues that veterinarians must be central to how we communicate about West Nile virus (WNV) as…
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure Summary The correspondence highlights the large climate consequences of infrastructure damage, using the September 2022 Nord Stream pipeline ruptures — which released about 465,000…
China’s chikungunya virus outbreak is a wake up call
China’s chikungunya virus outbreak is a wake up call Summary The correspondence notes a rapid chikungunya (CHIKV) outbreak in Guangdong province, China, with more than 7,000 reported cases since July…
AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals
AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals Summary This short correspondence from Borbala Foris and Jean-Loup Rault (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna) argues that current debates on AI-agent alignment largely…
Spanish government cancels €10m contract using Huawei equipment
Spanish government cancels €10m contract using Huawei equipment Summary The Spanish government has cancelled a €10 million contract awarded to Telefónica to upgrade RedIRIS, the national academic and research network…
Jaguar Land Rover ‘severely disrupted’ by cybersecurity incident
Jaguar Land Rover ‘severely disrupted’ by cybersecurity incident Summary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced a cybersecurity incident that has “severely disrupted” its global IT systems. The company proactively shut down…
Moscow reportedly hires hackers who breached city’s school system
Moscow reportedly hires hackers who breached city’s school system Summary Moscow authorities have reportedly employed “three or four” young people who previously managed to breach the Moscow Electronic School (MES),…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary New research from an Internet Society Pulse fellow, Rashna Kumar, maps how traffic to government domains…