Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs Summary This Nature study uses genome-wide ancient DNA from 1,840 individuals (including 591 newly analysed remains from 26 sites) across…
Two ants, two species, one mother Summary This Nature Podcast episode reports on a striking discovery from Iberian harvester ants: a single queen appears able to produce males that belong…
Windows starts asking for admin rights where it shouldn’t after security fix Summary Microsoft’s August 2025 security update patched CVE-2025-50173 — an authentication issue in Windows Installer that could allow…
Cloudflare Stops New World’s Largest DDoS Attack Over Labour Day Weekend Summary Cloudflare says it stopped a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack over the Labour Day weekend that peaked at…
Supermarket Giant Tesco Sues VMware, Warns Lack of Support Could Disrupt Food Supply Summary Tesco has filed a legal claim against Broadcom and reseller Computacenter seeking at least $134m, alleging…
AI Generated ‘Boring History’ Videos Are Flooding YouTube, Drowning Out Real History Summary The Slashdot post summarises a 404 Media report by Jason Koebler about a surge of AI‑generated, long-form…
Switzerland Releases Open-Source AI Model Built For Privacy Summary Apertus is a fully open-source, multilingual large language model launched from Switzerland. The project says the model was trained on 15…
Putin and Xi Caught Discussing Organ Transplants and Immortality Summary During a military parade in Beijing, a hot mic picked up Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping…
Sweeteners Can Harm Cognitive Health Equivalent To 1.6 Years of Ageing, Study Finds Summary A long-term observational study of 12,772 Brazilian civil servants (mean age 52) followed for about eight…
New AI Model Turns Photos Into Explorable 3D Worlds, With Caveats Summary Tencent has released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates short, 3D-consistent video sequences and corresponding depth maps…
