Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries Summary The article by Webb Wright describes how prominent spiritual influencers and wellness creators are presenting AI chatbots as…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an AI-driven offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and…
Summary The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) updated its Security and Privacy Control catalog (v5.2.0) to help organisations be more proactive about software updates and patching. The…
Hackers Are Sophisticated & Impatient — That Can Be Good Summary This commentary by Ensar Seker (SOCRadar) argues that modern ransomware groups operate like professional SaaS businesses: organised, opportunistic and…
Unifying gravity and quantum theory requires better understanding of time Summary This article diagnoses a core difficulty in building a quantum theory of gravity: the role of time. Quantum mechanics…
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…
AI-powered brain device allows paralysed man to control robotic arm Summary A recent study reports that adding an AI “co‑pilot” to a non‑invasive brain–computer interface (BCI) enabled a man with…
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer Summary Small electric aircraft — from delivery drones to passenger eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and…
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food Summary A trial of apomictic (sexless) sorghum — branded Hy-Gain — is due to be grown under containment in eastern…
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure Summary This correspondence by Hongfang Lu and Y. Frank Cheng highlights that the September 2022 Nord Stream pipeline ruptures released about 465,000 tonnes of…
