Will mpox go global again? Research shows it’s evolving in curious ways Summary Researchers are tracking changes in the mpox virus that help explain how it spread widely in 2022…
British Palantir rival, whose founder touted UK tech sovereignty, sells to Accenture Summary Accenture is acquiring UK-based AI company Faculty and bringing its roughly 400 staff onto Accenture’s payroll. Faculty’s…
IBM’s AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show Summary Researchers at PromptArmor found that IBM’s AI coding assistant Bob — offered as a CLI and an IDE…
AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far Summary AMD used CES 2026 to tease two waves of datacentre silicon: the near-term…
Illinois state agency exposed personal data of 700,000 people Summary The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) accidentally published personal data for more than 700,000 residents by embedding customer-level information…
Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What’s on X Summary WIRED reports that Grok — the chatbot by Elon Musk’s xAI — is being used on its…
Attackers Exploit Zero-Day in End-of-Life D-Link Routers Summary Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0625, a critical (CVSS 9.3) command-injection vulnerability in the dnscfg.cgi DNS configuration endpoint on multiple discontinued D-Link DSL…
A way to identify the biological basis of gene–trait associations Summary This Research Briefing summarises Ota et al.’s Nature paper on causal modelling that links regulators, transcriptional programmes and complex…
ESA calls cops as crims lift off 500 GB of files, say security black hole still open Summary The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed a major security breach after…
Alleged cyber scam kingpin arrested, extradited to China Summary Cambodian authorities arrested Chen Zhi, chair of the Prince Group conglomerate, and extradited him to China. Two others — Xu Ji…
