Daily briefing: Funding calls plummet as NIH turns away from agency-directed science Summary The US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest biomedical funder, is shifting away from issuing…
ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance Summary OpenAI is planning an “adult mode” for ChatGPT that would allow consenting adults to engage in erotic conversations…
US intel chiefs urge lawmakers to extend Section 702 surveillance power without changes Summary Senior U.S. intelligence officials publicly urged Congress to approve a “clean” extension of Section 702 of…
New Android malware hiding in streaming apps to spy on users’ personal notes Summary Researchers at ThreatFabric have discovered a new Android trojan called Perseus that is being disguised as…
Editorial Expression of Concern: A FADD-dependent innate immune mechanism in mammalian cells Summary Nature’s editors have issued an Editorial Expression of Concern (published 19 March 2026) about the 2004 Letter…
Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI Summary Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of the Signal messaging app and its widely used open-source encryption protocol, says his privacy-focused AI platform, Confer,…
FBI, CISA warn on Microsoft Intune risks after Iran-linked cyberattack on Stryker Summary Federal agencies — the FBI and CISA — have issued an advisory after an alleged Iran-linked group…
Interlock ransomware gang exploited Cisco firewall zero-day weeks before disclosure: Amazon Summary Amazon Integrated Security’s CISO CJ Moses has published findings showing the Interlock ransomware group exploited a critical zero-day…
Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize Summary Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, has been awarded the 2026 Abel…
The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths Summary Content warning: this article discusses self-harm and suicide. WIRED reports on a mounting legal battle after a series of…
