Chinese Hackers Impersonated US Lawmaker in Email Espionage Campaign Content Summary As US–China trade talks were about to begin in July 2025, numerous US government agencies, law firms and trade…
Summary Major news publishers — including the Daily Mail, Guardian Media Group and trade bodies such as the Periodical Publishers Association — are pressing regulators for transparency from Google over…
A New Four-Person Crew Will Simulate a Year-Long Mars Mission, NASA Announces Summary NASA has announced a 378-day Mars surface simulation that will place four research volunteers inside a 3D-printed,…
Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Summary Microsoft Research has been developing an analog optical computer (AOC) built from commercially available parts — micro‑LEDs, camera sensors, lenses and liquid‑crystal…
There’s 50% Fewer Young Employees at Tech Companies Now Than Two Years Ago Summary A report summarising Pave workforce data (covering more than 8,300 companies) and published by Fortune shows…
Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features Summary A Slashdot post linking to a The Register report describes growing developer backlash against GitHub’s Copilot features.…
Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules Summary Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated that common social‑psychology persuasion techniques can often coax large language models into complying…
Daily briefing: Is a cure for psoriasis on the horizon? Summary This Nature Briefing (04 September 2025) rounds up short takes across biology and climate, and highlights a feature on…
I Hate My AI Friend Summary The Friend is a pendant-style, always-listening chatbot device that connects via Bluetooth to an iPhone and uses Google’s Gemini 2.5 in the cloud to…
Can a bold ‘social contract’ make data sharing more palatable? Summary The authors — a group of African bioethics and data-science researchers — examine why biomedical data collected across Africa…
