Red Hat Back-Office Team Moving To IBM From 2026
Red Hat Back-Office Team Moving To IBM From 2026 Summary Red Hat will transfer its General & Administrative (G&A) back‑office staff — including HR, finance, accounting and legal — to…
Gemini App Finally Expands To Audio Files
Gemini App Finally Expands To Audio Files Summary Google announced three Gemini-related updates: the Gemini app now accepts audio uploads, Google Search’s AI Mode expands to five additional languages, and…
Life scientists: educate others to help strengthen biosecurity
Life scientists: educate others to help strengthen biosecurity Summary In a correspondence to Nature, Lijun Shang (London Metropolitan University) and Malcolm Dando (University of Bradford) urge life scientists to take…
Protecting science from sanctions
Protecting science from sanctions Summary International sanctions have grown markedly since the Second World War and, although often aimed at economic or military targets, they increasingly affect scientific collaboration and…
Daily briefing: A polo-team’s worth of cloned CRISPR horses
Daily briefing: A polo-team’s worth of cloned CRISPR horses Summary Nature Briefing (08 September 2025) – A roundup of short news items: scientists have produced the first CRISPR-edited horses by…
Nokia successor HMD spawns secure device biz with Euro-made smartphone
Nokia successor HMD spawns secure device biz with Euro-made smartphone Summary Finnish phone maker HMD Global has launched a new business unit, HMD Secure, aimed at governments and security-critical sectors…
Use computing royalties to kick-start biodiversity fund
Use computing royalties to kick-start biodiversity fund Summary This correspondence notes that many modern foods, medicines and textiles rely on plant and animal varieties shaped by millennia of Indigenous selective…
US Man Still Alive Six Months After Pig Kidney Transplant
US Man Still Alive Six Months After Pig Kidney Transplant Summary A 67-year-old US man, Tim Andrews, remains alive more than six months after receiving a genetically modified pig kidney…
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws Summary Attaullah Baig, the former head of security for WhatsApp, has filed a lawsuit against Meta alleging the company ignored major…
Hackers Hijack npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads in Supply Chain Attack
Hackers Hijack npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads in Supply Chain Attack Summary Attackers compromised an npm maintainer account via a phishing campaign (using a fake domain, npmjs.help) and…