Nova Launcher’s Founder and Sole Developer Has Left
Nova Launcher’s Founder and Sole Developer Has Left Summary Kevin Barry, the founder and sole developer of Nova Launcher, has left parent company Branch Metrics after being told to stop…
All 54 Lost Clickwheel IPod Games Have Been Preserved For Posterity
All 54 Lost Clickwheel iPod Games Have Been Preserved For Posterity Summary Classic iPod enthusiasts have completed a preservation effort that collects all 54 official clickwheel games Apple once sold.…
Plex Suffers Security Incident Exposing User Data and Urging Password Resets
Plex Suffers Security Incident Exposing User Data and Urging Password Resets Summary Plex has notified customers that an unauthorised third party accessed one of its databases, potentially exposing emails, usernames…
Disposable Face Masks Used During Covid Have Left Chemical Timebomb
Disposable Face Masks Used During Covid Have Left Chemical Timebomb Summary Recent research reported via The Guardian and published in the journal Environmental Pollution found that single-use face masks from…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an automated offensive pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses large language models (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0 and other LLMs),…
OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029
OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029 Summary According to a report relayed by Slashdot from The Information, OpenAI now projects its total cash burn from 2025…
Texas Sued Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban
Texas Sued Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban Summary Two California-based cultivated‑meat companies, UPSIDE Foods (cultivated chicken) and Wildtype (cultivated salmon), have sued Texas officials over a two‑year ban on the…
Mathematicians Find GPT-5 Makes Critical Errors in Original Proof Generation
Mathematicians Find GPT-5 Makes Critical Errors in Original Proof Generation Summary University of Luxembourg mathematicians tested GPT-5 on an open research task: extending a qualitative fourth-moment theorem in the Malliavin–Stein…
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws Summary Former WhatsApp head of security Attaullah Baig has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District…
US Man Still Alive Six Months After Pig Kidney Transplant
US Man Still Alive Six Months After Pig Kidney Transplant Summary A 67-year-old US man, Tim Andrews, remains alive more than six months after receiving a kidney from a genetically…