China’s chikungunya virus outbreak is a wake up call
China’s chikungunya virus outbreak is a wake up call Summary The chikungunya (CHIKV) outbreak in Guangdong province — more than 7,000 reported cases since July 2025 — highlights how urban…
AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals
AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals Summary This short correspondence (Nature, 02 September 2025) by Borbala Foris and Jean-Loup Rault argues that current debates about AI-agent ethics and alignment…
Jaguar Land Rover ‘severely disrupted’ by cybersecurity incident
Jaguar Land Rover ‘severely disrupted’ by cybersecurity incident Summary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said its global IT systems were “severely disrupted” by a cybersecurity incident. The company proactively shut…
Moscow reportedly hires hackers who breached city’s school system
Moscow reportedly hires hackers who breached city’s school system Summary Moscow city officials have reportedly recruited “three or four” young hackers who previously breached the Moscow Electronic School (MES) platform,…
WhatsApp, Apple warn of highly targeted attacks with zero-day vulnerability
WhatsApp, Apple warn of highly targeted attacks with zero-day vulnerability Summary WhatsApp has patched a zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2025-55177, which it says involved incomplete authorisation of linked-device synchronisation messages and could…
China launches new ‘AI+’ policy to ‘deepen information technology revolution’
China launches new ‘AI+’ policy to ‘deepen information technology revolution’ Summary China’s State Council has unveiled a new national policy called “AI+”, described as the successor to 2015’s “Internet+”. Where…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary New research from Internet Society Pulse fellow Rashna Kumar maps how traffic to government websites in…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A part-time DBA (“Derek”) was maintaining symmetrical MySQL replication between two sites: Boston and Malta.…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections
Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced superfast electrons back to their sources on the Sun and separated solar energetic electron (SEE) events into two distinct groups: those…
LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print
LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print Summary Researchers at security firm Pangea describe a prompt-injection technique dubbed “LegalPwn” that hides adversarial instructions inside legal-style documents so…