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 Data compiled by Pave and reported by Fortune shows a sharp drop in early-career Gen Z…
A New Four-Person Crew Will Simulate a Year-Long Mars Mission, NASA Announces
A New Four-Person Crew Will Simulate a Year-Long Mars Mission, NASA Announces Summary NASA has selected four research volunteers to take part in a 378-day, Earth-based simulation of a Mars…
Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise
Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Summary Microsoft Research has developed an analog optical computer (AOC) built from off-the-shelf optical components — micro-LEDs, camera sensors and lenses — that…
OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029
OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029 Summary OpenAI has told investors that it now expects to burn about $115 billion in cash between now and 2029…
Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features
Summary Slashdot reports on growing developer backlash against GitHub’s Copilot features being pushed into users’ workflows without an adequate opt-out. Top community discussions over the past year demand ways to…
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 an open mathematical problem: extending a qualitative fourth-moment theorem to…
Texas Sued Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban
Texas Sued Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban Summary Two California-based cultivated-meat companies, UPSIDE Foods (cultivated chicken) and Wildtype (cultivated salmon), have filed suit against Texas officials over Senate Bill 261,…
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 man, Tim Andrews, is alive and dialysis-free more than six months after receiving a genetically modified pig…
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 in the U.S. District Court for the…
Kazakh oil giant denies cyberattack, says incident was ‘planned’ phishing drill
Kazakh oil giant denies cyberattack, says incident was ‘planned’ phishing drill Summary Seqrite Labs published research naming a new group, “NoisyBear”, which it said had targeted Central Asia’s energy sector…