Brazil must beef up its COP30 scheme to preserve tropical forests
Brazil must beef up its COP30 scheme to preserve tropical forests Summary Brazil plans to launch the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) at COP30 in Belém — a scheme intended…
Feds flag active exploitation of patched Windows SMB vuln
Feds flag active exploitation of patched Windows SMB vuln Summary CISA has added a high-severity Windows SMB client vulnerability (CVE-2025-33073) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue on 20 October…
The Perfect Storm: AWS Outages, AI Ethics, And Breakthroughs In Medical Tech [Guest Newsletter Editor]
Opening Shot: The AWS Outage—A Glimpse into Cloud Chaos It was 12:11 AM PDT when AWS first acknowledged increased error rates and latencies in their US-EAST-1 region. What followed was…
AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle
AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle Summary Amazon Web Services has confirmed that fixing a DNS problem that blocked access to a…
How scientists are pushing back against Trump’s funding ‘deal’ for universities
How scientists are pushing back against Trump’s funding ‘deal’ for universities Summary US President Donald Trump offered a higher-education “compact” that would align university admissions, hiring and research with administration…
People with blindness can read again after retinal implant
People with blindness can read again after retinal implant Summary Scientists have used a tiny electronic retinal implant to restore useful central vision to people left functionally blind by advanced…
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy in mismatch-repair-proficient colon cancers
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy in mismatch-repair-proficient colon cancers Article Meta Article Date: 20 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09679-4 Article Image: Image Summary This Phase II NICHE study reports neoadjuvant nivolumab plus ipilimumab…
Parity and lactation induce T cell mediated breast cancer protection
Parity and lactation induce T cell mediated breast cancer protection Summary This study shows that pregnancy followed by lactation and involution leads to an accumulation of CD8+ T cells, including…
Selective Methylene Oxidation in α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Natural Products
Selective Methylene Oxidation in α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Natural Products Article Meta Article Date: 20 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09742-0 Article Image: https://media.springernature.com/full/nature-cms/uploads/product/nature/header-86f1267ea01eccd46b530284be10585e.svg Summary This Nature research article reports a catalytic method…
AI wins Imitation Game: Readers prefer Fanfic written by ChatGPT
AI wins Imitation Game: Readers prefer Fanfic written by ChatGPT Summary Researchers have found that large language models fine-tuned on the collected works of individual authors can produce short literary…