Daily briefing: ‘Mind captioning’ AI describes the images in your head Summary Nature’s daily briefing highlights a striking AI advance — a technique dubbed “mind captioning” that translates fMRI brain…
Africa finally has its own drug-regulation agency — and it could transform the continent’s health Summary The African Medicines Agency (AMA) has launched after more than a decade of planning.…
Microsoft teases agents that become ‘independent users within the workforce’ Summary Microsoft has teased a new class of “agentic users” — AI agents that will operate as independent users inside…
Data breach at Chinese infosec firm reveals cyber-weapons and target list Summary Reports from Chinese infosec blog MXRN indicate a major data breach at Knownsec, a security company with ties…
What Is Adobe Firefly? Here’s How to Use This Powerful Generative AI Tool Summary Adobe Firefly is a web-based suite of generative-AI creative tools that brings dozens of models and…
Who’s watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map Summary Esra’a Al Shafei, a Mozilla fellow and long-time digital-rights activist, founded Surveillance Watch — an interactive map…
AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing Summary A new study led by the Oxford Internet Institute examined 445 large language model (LLM)…
Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones Summary Unit 42 researchers have uncovered a previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL that exploited a critical Samsung…
Microsoft Backs Massive AI Push in UAE, Raising Security Concerns Summary Microsoft, in partnership with UAE tech group G42, is helping to build the opening phase of a planned 5‑gigawatt…
‘Ransomvibing’ Infests Visual Studio Extension Market Summary A malicious Visual Studio Code extension, published under the name “susvsex,” openly advertised that it encrypted, zipped and uploaded files to a remote…
