400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, a largely empty mega-project in Malaysia, to attend “Network School,” an…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary British “AI music creator” Oliver McCann — who says he has no musical training…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary An anonymous plaintiff has sued Amazon Prime Video, alleging the service misleads customers by labelling long-term…
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain Summary On the latest episode of WIRED’s Uncanny Valley, hosts Zoë Schiffer and Leah Feiger run through five big stories of the week. The…
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America Summary Latam-GPT is an open-source large language model led by Chile’s nonprofit CENIA, built specifically for Latin America and…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research pair built an automated pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses prompts to a large language model (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE…
Clarity or accuracy — what makes a good scientific image? Summary Felice Frankel reviews Anika Burgess’s book Flashes of Brilliance, arguing that photographic images in science are not merely illustrative…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary Authors Helen Christensen and Andrew Mackinnon discuss how Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act — which will bar under‑16s…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary New UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) data show a sharp rise in applications alongside only a…
Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced superfast electrons back to specific sources on the Sun, enabling researchers to separate solar energetic electron (SEE) events into two distinct…
