First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary Oliver McCann, a 37-year-old British “AI music creator”, has reportedly signed with an independent…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary The article reports on a lawsuit alleging Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by labelling long-term streaming…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionise. There’s Now 3,500 Unionised Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 members of Blizzard’s Diablo development team have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers of…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an AI-powered pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses a large language model (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary The Washington Post and other outlets report a wave of false active-shooter reports — so-called “swatting” — targeting about…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary A short-term human study from Japanese researchers tested whether continuous inhalation of a rose-scented oil could change brain…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Legendary Unix co-creator Brian Kernighan (age 83) described a single attempt at writing a Rust programme during a public talk.…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Content Summary The Register’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, via Slashdot, reports that AI-powered web crawlers are increasingly aggressive and…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary New large trials and analyses are questioning the routine use of beta-blockers after…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The U.S. government climate site climate.gov — long a public source of climate science and data — had its production…
