Nepal social media ban sparks protests, dozens injured Summary At least 14 people were reportedly killed and dozens injured after police clashed with thousands of mainly young protesters in Kathmandu.…
French datacentre biz signs 12-year nuclear pact with EDF Summary Data4 has signed a 12-year Nuclear Production Allocation Contract (CAPN) with EDF to secure a 40 MW allocation of nuclear-generated…
First AI-Powered ‘Self-Composing’ Ransomware Was Actually Just a University Research Project Summary Cybersecurity firm ESET believed it had discovered the first AI-written ransomware, dubbed “PromptLock.” Further investigation showed the sample…
Switching Off One Crucial Protein Appears to Reverse Brain Ageing in Mice Summary A team led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco report that the protein ferritin…
32% of Senior Developers Say Half Their Shipped Code is AI-Generated Summary Fastly surveyed 791 professional developers in July about their use of AI coding tools. Roughly one third of…
New In Firefox Nightly Builds: Copilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets, JPEG-XL Support Summary Firefox Nightly now includes support for Microsoft Copilot in the sidebar alongside other chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral,…
AI Tool Usage ‘Correlates Negatively’ With Performance in CS Class, Estonian Study Finds Summary A University of Tartu study surveyed 231 students in an object-oriented programming course about their use…
Scientists Discuss Next Steps to Prevent Dangerous ‘Mirror Life’ Research Summary Researchers working on so-called “mirror life” — organisms built from mirror-image (opposite‑handed) biomolecules — paused their work after biosecurity…
Linus Torvalds Expresses Frustration With ‘Garbage’ Link Tags In Git Commits Summary Linux kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds has publicly criticised the routine addition of “Link:” tags in Git commit messages…
Summary Major news publishers — including the Daily Mail, Guardian Media Group and trade bodies such as the Periodical Publishers Association — are pressing regulators for transparency from Google over…
