Firefox ESR 115 won’t quit Windows 7 – at least not until March 2026
Firefox ESR 115 won’t quit Windows 7 – at least not until March 2026 Summary Mozilla has extended Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 115 for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1…
Marsquakes indicate that the inner core of the red planet is solid, not liquid
Marsquakes indicate that the inner core of the red planet is solid, not liquid Summary NASA’s InSight mission recorded marsquakes between 2018 and 2022. Analysis of those seismic waves, reported…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton told the Financial Times that AI is likely to concentrate wealth…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary Alphabet’s Google was hit with a $3.45 billion EU antitrust fine after the European Commission found the company…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has widened existing restrictions to block access to its AI services for companies majority‑owned by entities from countries such…
Microsoft 365 Personal is Now Free For US College Students For a Year
Microsoft 365 Personal is Now Free For US College Students For a Year Summary Microsoft is offering Microsoft 365 Personal free for one year to eligible US college students. The…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris operates a district cooling network that draws water from the Seine via heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings,…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, a conversational AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to help cool…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A multinational research effort, Expedition 501, drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed 20–30…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have built an AI agent, called A2, that automates discovery and validation of…