Microsoft’s Analogue Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Summary Over the past four years a Microsoft Research team has developed a prototype analogue optical computer (AOC) built from commercial parts such…
A New Four-Person Crew Will Simulate a Year-Long Mars Mission, NASA Announces Summary NASA has selected four research volunteers to take part in a 378-day Mars surface simulation that will…
There’s 50% Fewer Young Employees at Tech Companies Now Than Two Years Ago Summary This summary covers a Fortune report (shared on Slashdot) based on Pave workforce data spanning over…
Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features Summary Developers on GitHub have been increasingly vocal about Copilot’s intrusive behaviour — from AI-created issues and pull…
OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029 Summary OpenAI told investors it now expects to burn about $115 billion in cash through 2029 — roughly $80 billion…
Texas Sued Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban Summary Two California cultivated-meat companies, UPSIDE Foods (cultivated chicken) and Wildtype (cultivated salmon), have filed a lawsuit challenging Texas’s new two-year ban on…
Mathematicians Find GPT-5 Makes Critical Errors in Original Proof Generation Summary University of Luxembourg mathematicians tested GPT-5 on whether it could extend a qualitative fourth-moment theorem to provide explicit convergence…
Seismic detection of a 600-km solid inner core in Mars Summary This Nature paper presents seismic evidence for a solid inner core (IC) in Mars with a radius of roughly…
32% of Senior Developers Say Half Their Shipped Code is AI-Generated Summary Fastly surveyed 791 professional coders in July to understand how developers use AI coding tools. The results show…
New In Firefox Nightly Builds: Copilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets, JPEG-XL Support Summary Firefox Nightly now includes Microsoft Copilot in its list of supported chatbots, joining OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and…
