Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier Summary The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) finalised a rule on 5 February 2026 creating a new employee category,…
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct Summary China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) will crack down on universities that fail to investigate or sanction researchers…
Moscow moves to throttle Telegram as Kremlin pushes its own messaging app Summary Russia has deliberately slowed down Telegram, its communications regulator Roskomnadzor confirmed, citing the service’s alleged non‑compliance with…
CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’ Summary United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has agreed to pay $225,000 for one year of access…
I Loved My OpenClaw AI Agent—Until It Turned on Me Summary Will Knight recounts his experience with OpenClaw, a viral agentic AI assistant that initially made life easier — ordering…
How to Stay on Top of Future Threats With a Cutting-Edge SOC Summary The article argues that security operations centres (SOCs) must rapidly evolve to meet future threats, with a…
Clearing trapped cholesterol could relieve lymphoedema Summary Lim et al. (reported in Nature and summarised by Babak Mehrara) show that impaired lymphatic clearance leads to excessive cholesterol deposition in peripheral…
Support people and their livelihoods rather than fossil-fuel industries Summary Geopolitical will to cut emissions is weak, but market forces are moving towards clean electricity: renewable costs have plummeted and…
Immune cells could be protected from ‘exhaustion’ by flipping genetic switches Summary Researchers used an atlas-guided approach to identify transcription-factor proteins that are selectively engaged when T cells commit to…
Ten years since the first reported observation of gravitational waves Summary On 14 September 2015 the two LIGO detectors in the United States recorded a brief signal (about 0.2 seconds)…
