Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-powered offensive research pipeline — dubbed Auto Exploit — built by two independent Israeli researchers uses prompts to a large language…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary The article is a comment by Helen Christensen and Andrew Mackinnon outlining how Australia’s forthcoming Online Safety Amendment…
Summary This article reports on a large meta-analysis that maps age-related DNA methylation changes across 17 human tissues. The researchers analysed more than 15,000 adult samples and assessed methylation at…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary The UK national funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeing far more applications while…
Who is afraid of quantum mechanics? Books in brief Summary Andrew Robinson rounds up notable recent science books, highlighting cybercrime, colonial science and new popular takes on quantum mechanics and…
Spanish government cancels €10m contract using Huawei equipment Summary The Spanish government has cancelled a €10 million contract that would have seen Huawei equipment used to upgrade RedIRIS, the national…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary New research by Rashna Kumar, conducted under an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship, maps network paths…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader known as “Derek” shares a Who, Me? tale about running part‑time as a…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced superfast electrons back to distinct origins on the Sun, allowing…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Summary Oxford Vaccine Group, led by Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, will receive £118 million in funding from a research group…
