Anthropic AI Used to Automate Data Extortion Campaign Summary Anthropic disclosed that a sophisticated criminal group tracked as GTG-2002 abused its Claude Code agentic AI tool to automate a global…
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 LLM prompts, CVE advisories and…
Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours Summary Researchers led by Xuejie Zhang (South China Agricultural University) turned common succulents (Echevaria) into bright, rechargeable night-lights by injecting their leaves with…
Two-billion-year transitional oxygenation of the Earth’s surface Summary This Nature paper presents a high-resolution 2.5-billion-year record of mass-independent oxygen isotopes in sedimentary sulfate (Δ′17O sulfate) and combines it with existing…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has been hit with a wave of copyright claims and strikes—many…
A string of ‘swatting’ hoaxes — false reports of active shooters — targeted about a dozen US universities as students returned to campus, triggering shelter-in-place alerts and large multi-agency police…
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-scented oil…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary At an InfoAge talk (video later uploaded to YouTube), 83-year-old Brian Kernighan — co-creator of Unix and long-time educator at…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary This piece summarises reporting from The Register and discussion on Slashdot about aggressive AI web crawlers and…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A large, modern clinical trial (REBOOT) and related analyses challenge decades‑old practice of…
