Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary PC Gamer reports that over 450 developers from Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to form a union with the…
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain Summary WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast (host Zoë Schiffer, guest Leah Feiger) bundles five of the week’s top stories: AI trimming entry-level jobs, xAI’s lawsuit…
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America Summary Latam-GPT is an open-source large language model being developed by the Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA)…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli researchers have built an AI-driven offensive research pipeline (dubbed Auto Exploit) that uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source…
Summary Felice Frankel reviews Anika Burgess’s book Flashes of Brilliance, arguing that photography in science does more than illustrate — it investigates and can reveal new truths. The review highlights…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary New research by PhD student Rashna Kumar, conducted under an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship, mapped…
Summary Derek, a part-time MySQL DBA, maintained symmetrical replication between two instances: one in Boston and one in Malta. During a backup-power test in Boston that went wrong, the Maltese…
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 their sources on the Sun and…
LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print Summary Researchers at security firm Pangea describe a new prompt-injection attack called “LegalPwn” that hides adversarial instructions inside legalese so…
DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that’s getting bigger. Let’s kill it off Summary Rupert Goodwins argues that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are an under-appreciated but rapidly expanding cyber…
