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 solid…
AI-powered brain device allows paralysed man to control robotic arm Summary A non-invasive brain–computer interface (BCI) combined with an AI co-pilot enabled a man with partial paralysis to operate a…
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) aircraft are moving from…
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food Summary A field trial of Hy-Gain sorghum in eastern Australia will test plants engineered to reproduce by apomixis — producing…
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure Summary This correspondence by Hongfang Lu and Y. Frank Cheng highlights that infrastructure failures can have large, long-lasting climate consequences that are often overlooked…
China’s chikungunya virus outbreak is a wake up call Summary The correspondence from Chinese researchers highlights a rapidly growing chikungunya (CHIKV) outbreak in Guangdong province — more than 7,000 reported…
AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals Summary This correspondence, by Borbala Foris and Jean-Loup Rault, argues that current debates about AI-agent ethics and alignment largely ignore risks to sentient…
Jaguar Land Rover ‘severely disrupted’ by cybersecurity incident Summary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said its global IT systems were “severely disrupted” by a cybersecurity incident that forced the company…
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector Summary Register readers overwhelmingly support reducing Microsoft as the default in the UK public sector after…
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…
