Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli pair of independent security researchers built an automated pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses LLM prompts (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act will bar under-16s from accounts on major social platforms from December. Helen Christensen…
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet Summary The visible signs of ageing reflect invisible shifts in gene regulation. A large meta-analysis mapped DNA…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeing a surge in applications while the number of awards…
Content Summary An Israeli research duo built an AI-powered offensive pipeline called “Auto Exploit” that uses an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and open-source patches to automatically generate vulnerable test…
Unifying gravity and quantum theory requires better understanding of time Summary The article argues that the difficulty of unifying quantum mechanics with general relativity stems largely from conflicting roles of…
Biden stopped ICE from buying Israeli spyware, but Trump admin allows it to proceed Summary The White House under President Trump has lifted a Biden-era pause on an Immigration and…
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet Summary A new hollow optical-fibre design replaces the usual solid glass core with a system of nested hollow glass «straws»…
Who watches the watchmen? Surveillanceware firms make bank, avoid oversight Summary The Register reports on a new analysis by Sekoia showing commercial surveillanceware vendors are growing rapidly, charging ever-higher prices…
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer Summary Small electric aircraft, drones and eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) vehicles are moving…
