Why we should limit the autonomy of AI-enabled weapons Summary This Nature Spotlight interview with international law professor Nehal Bhuta (reported by Nic Fleming) outlines why AI-enabled autonomous weapons present…
Retraction Note: sFRP2 in the aged microenvironment drives melanoma metastasis and therapy resistance Summary Nature has retracted the 2016 paper that reported sFRP2 from the aged microenvironment promotes melanoma metastasis…
Open-source protein structure AI aims to match AlphaFold Summary OpenFold3, an open-source AI for predicting 3D protein structures, has been released as a preview by the non-profit OpenFold Consortium. Trained…
Android malware types like your gran to steal banking creds Summary Herodotus is a new Android trojan that combines elements of existing banking malware with original code to take over…
North Korea’s BlueNoroff Expands Scope of Crypto Heists Summary Kaspersky researchers report that North Korean APT BlueNoroff (aka Sapphire Sleet/APT38) has broadened its SnatchCrypto operations in 2025. Two campaigns, GhostCall…
Attackers Sell Turnkey Remote Access Trojan ‘Atroposia’ Summary Atroposia is a new, commercialised remote access Trojan (RAT) being marketed on underground forums as a modular, plug-and-play toolkit. Varonis researchers found…
Ethics must keep pace with embryo research Summary Japan’s bioethics panel has backed producing embryos from sperm and eggs derived from stem cells, anticipating formal approval. Although the method is…
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points Summary xAI, the company behind Elon Musk’s Grok, launched Grokipedia as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia. WIRED’s reporting found lengthy…
Memento Spyware Tied to Chrome Zero-Day Attacks Summary Kaspersky researchers traced exploitation of a Chrome zero-day (CVE-2025-2783) to commercial spyware from Memento Labs, the firm that emerged from the old…
Direct deaminative functionalization with N-nitroamines Summary This Nature article (unedited manuscript preview) reports a unified, one-pot deaminative strategy that converts aromatic C–N bonds into a broad array of C–X (C–Br,…
