Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features Summary A Slashdot post linking to a The Register report describes growing developer backlash against GitHub’s Copilot features.…
Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules Summary Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated that common social‑psychology persuasion techniques can often coax large language models into complying…
I Hate My AI Friend Summary The Friend is a pendant-style, always-listening chatbot device that connects via Bluetooth to an iPhone and uses Google’s Gemini 2.5 in the cloud to…
Daily briefing: Is a cure for psoriasis on the horizon? Summary This Nature Briefing (04 September 2025) rounds up short takes across biology and climate, and highlights a feature on…
Daily briefing: Nine metals in two dimensions Summary This Nature Briefing highlights a recent advance in 2D materials: chemists have synthesised a MXene that contains a record nine different metals…
Can a bold ‘social contract’ make data sharing more palatable? Summary The authors — a group of African bioethics and data-science researchers — examine why biomedical data collected across Africa…
‘LinkedIn is like air to me’: the scientists who’ve cracked professional networking Summary This Nature Careers piece interviews eight researchers who use LinkedIn strategically to advance their careers, build community…
Rainer Weiss obituary: Nobel laureate who pioneered the technique that detected gravitational waves Summary Physicist Rainer “Rai” Weiss, a driving force behind the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), has died.…
‘Amazing feat’: US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant Summary A 67-year-old US man, Tim Andrews, is alive more than six months after receiving a kidney from…
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let’s talk about digital presidents-for-life Summary Simon Sharwood argues that offhand remarks about organ transplants by Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin highlight a darker,…
