Mathematicians Find GPT-5 Makes Critical Errors in Original Proof Generation Summary Researchers at the University of Luxembourg tested GPT-5 on a challenging, original mathematics task: extending a qualitative fourth-moment theorem…
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws Summary The former head of security for WhatsApp, Attaullah Baig, has filed a lawsuit accusing Meta of ignoring major security and…
US Man Still Alive Six Months After Pig Kidney Transplant Summary A 67-year-old US man, Tim Andrews, remains alive and dialysis-free more than six months after receiving a kidney from…
Google Tells Court ‘Open Web is Already in Rapid Decline’ After Execs Claimed It Was Thriving Summary Google told a court in a filing that “the open web is already…
Signal Rolls Out Encrypted Cloud Backups, Debuts First Subscription Plan at $1.99/Month Summary Signal has started rolling out an opt-in, end-to-end encrypted cloud backup feature in its latest Android beta.…
Can researchers stop AI making up citations? Summary OpenAI’s GPT-5 reduces the frequency of fake citations and other hallucinations compared with earlier models, particularly when it can browse the web…
‘LinkedIn is like air to me’: the scientists who’ve cracked professional networking Summary This Nature Careers piece profiles eight researchers who use LinkedIn effectively to build community, find collaborators and…
Summary Rainer “Rai” Weiss (1932–2025) was the German‑American physicist whose 1972 proposal showed that laser interferometers could, in principle, detect gravitational waves — the tiny ripples in space–time predicted by…
Research misconduct: how the scientific community is fighting back Summary This Nature Podcast episode (Self Correction, episode two) examines research misconduct: why it happens, why it matters and what the…
The surprising ways bridges resist collapse Summary Researchers tested a scale model of a steel truss bridge to destruction and identified six latent resistance mechanisms that can keep bridges standing…
