‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities — FBI Investigating Summary A wave of false active-shooter reports hit around a dozen US universities in late August 2025 as students returned to…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers in Japan report that daily inhalation of a specific rose-scented oil applied to clothing for one month…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary In a recorded talk at New Jersey’s InfoAge Science and History Museums, 83‑year‑old Brian Kernighan — co‑creator of Unix and…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary The article reports that modern AI web crawlers — used to collect training data for large language…
Summary The U.S. government climate site climate.gov — once a central public resource for climate science — saw its production team dismissed earlier in 2025 and the site effectively buried…
Graphic designers, writers and developers are increasingly being hired to clean up and finish AI-generated work that clients bought or experimented with. NBC News reports freelancers are spending substantial time…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI quietly confirmed — in the middle of a blog post about severe mental-health harms — that it…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, a largely under‑populated Malaysian megaproject, to attend “Network School” — an…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary A British creator, Oliver McCann, described as an “AI music creator”, has signed with…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary Ars Technica and Slashdot report that a California plaintiff has filed suit against Amazon Prime Video,…
