Disposable Face Masks Used During Covid Have Left Chemical Timebomb Summary Researchers examined disposable face masks from the Covid period and found they leach microplastics and chemical contaminants as they…
Warming Seas Threaten Key Phytoplankton Species That Fuels the Food Web Summary Research reported by the Associated Press and published in Nature Microbiology finds that Prochlorococcus — the smallest and…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-powered offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches to automatically generate vulnerable test applications…
Summary Signal has introduced an opt-in encrypted storage feature. All users are being offered 100MB of free storage for media (images, video, GIFs and other files) covering the prior 45…
Texas Sued Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban Summary Two cultivated-meat companies — UPSIDE Foods (cultivated chicken) and Wildtype (cultivated salmon) — have filed a lawsuit against Texas officials over Senate…
Mathematicians Find GPT-5 Makes Critical Errors in Original Proof Generation Summary Researchers at the University of Luxembourg asked GPT-5 to extend a qualitative fourth-moment theorem by producing explicit convergence rates…
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws Summary The former head of security for WhatsApp, Attaullah Baig, has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the…
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 In a court filing opposing a divestiture proposal, Google stated that “the open…
Signal Rolls Out Encrypted Cloud Backups, Debuts First Subscription Plan at $1.99/Month Summary Signal has begun rolling out end-to-end encrypted cloud backups in its latest Android beta. The opt-in feature…
