Disposable Face Masks Used During Covid Have Left Chemical Timebomb Summary Researchers examined disposable face masks and found they leach microplastics and chemical additives when they degrade. During the pandemic…
Warming Seas Threaten Key Phytoplankton Species That Fuels the Food Web Summary A new study published in Nature Microbiology and reported by the Associated Press suggests that Prochlorococcus—the smallest and…
Gemini App Finally Expands To Audio Files Summary Google has rolled out a set of Gemini updates: the Gemini app now accepts audio uploads (with tiered limits for free and…
Mathematicians Find GPT-5 Makes Critical Errors in Original Proof Generation Summary Researchers at the University of Luxembourg tested GPT-5 on a novel maths task: extending a qualitative fourth-moment theorem to…
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws Summary Former head of security for WhatsApp, Attaullah Baig, has filed a lawsuit against Meta in the U.S. District Court for…
US Man Still Alive Six Months After Pig Kidney Transplant Summary A 67-year-old US man, Tim Andrews, remains alive and dialysis-free more than six months after receiving a kidney from…
Google Tells Court ‘Open Web is Already in Rapid Decline’ After Execs Claimed It Was Thriving Summary Google told a court in a filing that “the open web is already…
Signal Rolls Out Encrypted Cloud Backups, Debuts First Subscription Plan at $1.99/Month Summary Signal has started rolling out end-to-end encrypted cloud backups in its latest Android beta. The opt-in feature…
Hackers Hijack npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads in Supply Chain Attack Summary Security researchers and the affected package maintainer report a large-scale supply-chain attack on the npm ecosystem.…
All IT Work To Involve AI By 2030, Says Gartner Summary Analyst firm Gartner predicts that by 2030 every piece of IT work will involve AI in some form. Today…
