Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers Summary A network engineer, anonymised as “Warren”, solved a long-running performance problem affecting a 3D scanner used to detect breast…
Roblox to verify ages of all gamers who use chat and text features Summary Roblox will expand its age‑estimation programme to everyone who uses chat and text features by the…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI startup, has widened restrictions to block its services from companies majority-owned by entities in countries…
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth in the hands of a small elite while impoverishing most workers, as firms use AI to replace labour and boost…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris operates a district cooling network that draws Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings (including…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Key Points • Columbia is testing Sway, an AI debate programme from Carnegie Mellon that pairs students with opposing views for…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund to settle a…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A multinational research expedition (Expedition 501) drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed 20–30…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year Summary Mozilla has announced it will stop publishing 32‑bit Linux builds of Firefox in 2026. Firefox 144 will be the last standard release…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have created A2, an AI-driven agent that automates discovery and validation of vulnerabilities…
