Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur
Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur Summary A new, much more complete specimen of Spicomellus afer from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco confirms its identity as an ankylosaur and…
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet Summary By Chris Simms A large meta-analysis mapped DNA methylation changes across 17 human tissues and more…
Spanish government cancels €10m contract using Huawei equipment
Spanish government cancels €10m contract using Huawei equipment Summary The Spanish government cancelled a €10m contract awarded to Telefónica that would have deployed Huawei equipment to upgrade RedIRIS, the national…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and principal maintainer of the PHP framework Laravel, warns developers against building “cathedrals of complexity” —…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Gray Matter
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to wear a specific rose essential…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust?
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary In a recent talk (uploaded to YouTube) 83-year-old Brian Kernighan — co-creator of Unix and long-time educator at Princeton —…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data?
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Recent coverage (via The Register, summarised on Slashdot) argues that AI web crawlers are aggressively harvesting web…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary New research reported via Slashdot (original reporting at CNN) challenges the long-standing routine…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The US government climate information site climate.gov — long a public source of climate-science data and explanation — has had…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Generative AI is producing a lot of rough, often unusable output — logos, copy, code and more. BBC…