There’s 50% Fewer Young Employees at Tech Companies Now Than Two Years Ago
There’s 50% Fewer Young Employees at Tech Companies Now Than Two Years Ago Summary A Slashdot post links to a Fortune report that finds the share of early-career Gen Z…
A New Four-Person Crew Will Simulate a Year-Long Mars Mission, NASA Announces
Summary NASA has announced a 378-day Mars surface simulation for a four-person research crew under the CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) programme. The mission will run inside a…
Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise
Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Summary Microsoft Research has been developing an analog optical computer (AOC) using commercially available components — micro‑LEDs, camera sensors, optical lenses — to…
Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features
Slashdot covers growing developer backlash against GitHub for pushing Copilot AI features into repositories and Visual Studio Code. Community threads asking for ways to block Copilot from creating issues and…
OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029
OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029 Summary OpenAI reports faster-than-expected revenue growth from ChatGPT, but computing and data-centre costs are rising even faster. The company now…
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws Summary Former WhatsApp head of security Attaullah Baig has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District…
Mathematicians Find GPT-5 Makes Critical Errors in Original Proof Generation
Mathematicians Find GPT-5 Makes Critical Errors in Original Proof Generation Summary Researchers at the University of Luxembourg tested GPT-5 on a novel mathematical task: extending a qualitative fourth-moment theorem in…
Texas Sued Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban
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 against Texas officials over Senate Bill…
Google Tells Court ‘Open Web is Already in Rapid Decline’ After Execs Claimed It Was Thriving
Google Tells Court ‘Open Web is Already in Rapid Decline’ After Execs Claimed It Was Thriving Summary In a recent court filing, Google stated that “the open web is already…
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 and dialysis-free more than six months after receiving a kidney from…