Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer Summary Small electric aeroplanes and eVTOLs are moving from prototypes to real-world trials, with drones…
AI-powered brain device allows paralysed man to control robotic arm
AI-powered brain device allows paralysed man to control robotic arm Summary A non-invasive brain–computer interface (BCI) augmented with an AI “co-pilot” let a man with partial paralysis operate a robotic…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Summary A tech billionaire-funded research programme will invest £118 million in AI-driven vaccine and immunity research at the University of…
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure Summary This correspondence highlights that the Nord Stream pipeline ruptures in September 2022 released roughly 465,000 tonnes of methane — a major climate impact…
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty Summary The White House issued an executive order on 28 August 2025 adding NASA to the National Security Exclusions list. That designation…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Key Points • Several Azure customers received automated budget alerts after an account migration caused forecast costs to spike dramatically.…
Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane
Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane Summary A chartered plane carrying European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen lost access to GPS signals while…
In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception
In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception Summary Cisco Talos scanned the internet and found more than 1,100 Ollama servers exposed…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and lead maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, warns developers against building overly clever, hard-to-change code…
Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk
Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk Summary Security researchers at Armis discovered ten vulnerabilities — dubbed Frostbyte10 — in Copeland E2 and E3 refrigeration…