Chancellor says government to commit hundreds of millions to develop ‘distinctively British’ approach to AI John Healey has pledged to use Wednesday’s budget to harness the power of artificial intelligence to bolster Britain’s security and… Read more: John Healey pledges to use budget to harness power of AI to bolster Britain’s security

Coforge reported a 53.6% year-on-year increase in consolidated revenue to ₹6,170.8 crore in Q2 FY27, supported by Encora’s full-quarter contribution and the company’s continued focus on AI-led engineering. The IT services company also raised its… Read more: Coforge Revenue Rises 54% as AI Engineering and Deal Bookings Gain Momentum

Moonshot AI today introduced Kim K3.1 Pro, a large language model that can perform some tasks better than Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. The LLM is a post-trained, or upgraded, version of an algorithm… Read more: Moonshot AI launches new flagship Kim K3.1 Pro model with 3T parameters

During a lengthy news conference NASA on Friday provided a detailed overview of how it plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface, as soon as 2028, as part of its Artemis Program. Although much… Read more: NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue

BBC series deliberately uses ‘more organic’ shots to assure viewers animals are not AI-generated, producers say The David Attenborough-narrated series Blue Planet III deliberately includes cloudier, less polished footage to counter AI fakery and assure… Read more: Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom

As reported by Music Business Worldwide, Spotify appears to be stepping up enforcement of existing policies regarding Family and Duo subscription plans by requiring users to scan a QR code in person on the plan… Read more: Spotify ramps up policy enforcement on family plans

Leaders in the US Space Force would like to have a new spaceport up and running in four years, adding a third heavy-lift launch site to relieve pressure from bases in Florida and California that… Read more: Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport

Using Google’s products and services has always been fundamentally precarious—doing so gives the world’s largest advertising company a lot of juicy personal data. Google has long said it won’t use the sensitive data from products… Read more: Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo warning military personnel against using nonpublic information to make bets on prediction markets, saying the wagers could give important clues to enemy countries. “Do Not Compromise Military Operations… Read more: Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops

Legal scholar Martha Minow delivered this fall’s Compton Lecture at MIT on Thursday, examining the civic foundations of democracy — and describing how artificial intelligence is undermining it, but could be used to help reinforce… Read more: At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI

Earlier in October, Finnish authorities ordered Google’s affiliate data center developer Tuike Finland Oy to immediately suspend the illegal cutting of some 1,300 acres of forest. The tech giant was given a week to draft… Read more: Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers

Enterprise artificial intelligence is entering a cost-conscious phase, and hybrid infrastructure is where that reckoning plays out. As inference spending climbs, business leaders are weighing where models run, which models they use and how much… Read more: Hybrid infrastructure decisions put AI costs and control in focus

Pathos AI Inc. today announced that it has raised $237 million in funding at a $3 billion valuation. Pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb Co. led the Series E round with participation from several unnamed returning… Read more: AI drug development startup Pathos AI closes $237M investment

Will bringing automation into the financial industry prove disastrous or transformative? Intuit Inc., the financial technology company behind Credit Karma, QuickBooks and TurboTax, sees artificial intelligence as the next frontier of financial software. The industry… Read more: What to expect during Intuit Connect: Join theCUBE Oct. 28

At the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) 75th Anniversary Symposium, speakers celebrated the school’s value and contributions, while exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming many aspects of teaching, research, and society.… Read more: Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT

After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of ‘vulnerability tsunami’ Leaders in cybersecurity are sounding the alarm after the discovery of a major vulnerability this week. They are predicting that… Read more: ‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking

The motivation behind database modernization has traditionally been greater efficiency and cost savings. Yet, theCUBE Research has also found that there is a larger prize at stake: AI projects built on top of a modernized… Read more: What to expect during Oracle AI World: Join theCUBE Oct. 28

PHP is a key building block of most websites. Richard Drury/DigitalVision via Getty Images Governments and organizations around the world began scrambling on Oct. 21, 2026, to fix a vulnerability in software that runs their… Read more: PHP is in the foundation of 70% of websites – here’s what it is and why a flaw in the software is a major hacking threat

Gamers still hoping against hope for a true follow-up to Half-Life 2 (after so, so many years) may remember last year’s flurry of speculation that Half-Life 3 was finally nearing completion. Amid all those rumors,… Read more: Everybody panic: A Valve developer said “HLX” in public

The New York Knicks organization sent employees a phishing email promising free championship rings in a test of its staff’s ability to detect scams, The New York Times reported yesterday. “Congratulations, your Employee Championship Ring… Read more: Knicks sent employees fake offer of championship rings in phishing test: Report

At a recent meeting of the board that oversees the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center Research Hospital, chair Jack Leslie opened with cheerful introductions and gregarious chatter—then diverted from the agenda of the regularly… Read more: RFK Jr.’s vaccine injury clinic could damage NIH hospital, board warns

US chip champion Intel was so confused by the US government ban on foreign-made robots that it requested and received a waiver “out of an abundance of caution.” The tech company wanted to make sure… Read more: Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs

Much of what we know about how a brain makes decisions comes from studying monkeys watching dots. in a task known as a random-dot-motion task, a cloud of flickering specks drifts weakly in one direction… Read more: Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss reverse engineering and some wild court docs.… Read more: Behind the Blog: Brute Forces

Video shows AI likenesses of people linked to Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist party appearing to admit to wrongdoing A political ad from Spain’s main opposition party that used a deepfake video of the prime minister’s wife… Read more: Opposition deepfake video sparks outrage in Spain ahead of election

We start this week with Jason’s article about how everyone is apparently reverse-engineering everything. After the break, Joseph tells us about a big AI shakeup at consulting giant Accenture. In the subscribers-only section, Sam and… Read more: Podcast: ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the Next Wave of AI Slop

Hugging Face’s Carbon-X AI model lets researchers analyze DNA using natural language, with lower reported costs and local deployment options for labs. The post Hugging Face’s New AI Model Lets Scientists Analyze DNA at a… Read more: Hugging Face’s New AI Model Lets Scientists Analyze DNA at a Fraction of the Cost

Trump wants data center companies to pay host communities as opposition to AI infrastructure grows. Here’s what the proposal could mean for future projects. The post The AI Boom Needs More Data Centers. Trump Wants… Read more: The AI Boom Needs More Data Centers. Trump Wants Communities to Get a Cut

Depending on where you sit as an investor, artificial intelligence still looks like a massive opportunity, or it’s now looking way too risky given growing infrastructure investments and the public’s souring on AI and all… Read more: In AI, it’s a tale of two diverging investor classes

The designation recognizes Avahi’s technical expertise and proven customer success in securing workloads on AWS Avahi, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner specializing in AI and cloud solutions, today announced that it… Read more: Avahi Achieves AWS Security Competency for Cloud Protection Expertise

Build it with your AI agent. Use it yourself or invite your household, team, or friends, with sign-in, data storage, and hosting provided by Fulcra Fulcra Dynamics, a company building the tools to help agents… Read more: Fulcra Unveils Agent Skill to Build Apps People and Agents Can Use Together

DDN Infinia helps Nebul reuse model context across its NVIDIA-powered AI cloud, with testing showing nearly 10x faster token responses DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, announced today at GTC Berlin… Read more: DDN and Nebul Boost Sovereign AI Inference with DDN Infinia

Net new ARR growth of approximately 60% through the first three quarters of FY26, while maintaining a double-digit free cash flow margin. Expands from credential protection to dynamic access for people, AI agents, and machines… Read more: 1Password Surpasses $500M ARR Driven by Developers and AI Growth

It’s the story of how I spent one weekend letting an autonomous AI system run overnight to improve the very skills I use to build AI tools, and what happened when I checked the results… Read more: 47 experiments, zero humans, one night: How I let AI improve my AI skills

Amdahl’s Law states that improving a single part of a system can only speed up the whole system so much. Even if one step of a process becomes exponentially faster, the other steps impose a… Read more: How to avoid AI’s ‘valley of despair’

The QKS Group SPARK Matrix provides competitive analysis & ranking of the leading NDR vendors. Onix, with its IP-led AI services portfolio anchored by Wingspan, has demonstrated strong capabilities across enterprise AI engineering, data readiness, contextual… Read more: Onix Leads in the SPARK Matrix™: AI Services, 2026 by QKS Group

US regulators have issued a warning to a nuclear project critical to Donald Trump’s efforts to revive the industry, after a contractor fell into a reactor cavity and a bundle of fuel rods nearly tipped… Read more: The reactor meant to showcase nuclear’s comeback keeps hitting problems

Anthropic claims AI will shift how work gets done and labor demand – but some experts are skeptical of the vision Last year, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of… Read more: Experts cast doubt on Anthropic report detailing how AI has altered work at the company

Everything has become so frictionless and optimised, that concerted efforts must be made to turn back towards beauty and individuality – even if it has no explicit market value By the time it’s 5pm on… Read more: Modern life is stuck in a sea of sameness. The pursuit of beauty is a necessary antidote | Brigid Delaney

Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark launches at $4,999 with the same GB10 chip as the 128GB version. Compare memory limits, model support, clustering costs, and what IT buyers should verify. The post Nvidia DGX Spark 64GB… Read more: Nvidia DGX Spark 64GB Launches at $4,999: Is It Worth It?

Nvidia and Agile Robots unveiled Agile ONE SN, a compact humanoid with Jetson Thor computing and Isaac GR00T training tools. Here’s what it can do, its specifications, and when it launches. The post Agile ONE… Read more: Agile ONE SN Humanoid Robot Bundles Nvidia’s Robotics Stack

Tech Mahindra has partnered with AI coding platform SpaceXSI to help enterprises use AI-assisted development in application modernisation projects. The collaboration will combine Tech Mahindra’s engineering and enterprise transformation services with SpaceXSI’s development platform. The… Read more: Tech Mahindra Partners With SpaceXSI to Bring AI Into Software Engineering

WEKA’s AI data storage and memory capabilities will support Smartbird’s dedicated AI clusters as part of a broader strategy to build a network of leading technology partnersSmartbird, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIRD), the enterprise AI infrastructure company,… Read more: Smartbird Expands Enterprise AI Infra Ecosystem with WEKA Technology

Welcome to Edition 9.16 of the Rocket Report! Lots of SpaceX-related news this week including a couple of Thursday shockers. In one story, the company told the US Space Force thanks, but no thanks after… Read more: Rocket Report: SpaceX says no thanks to military launches; Spanish rocket nearly ready

Peacock’s series, Crystal Lake, doesn’t feel like a Friday the 13th movie when you first press play, even though it’s set up to be a prequel to the original film. (This review includes spoilers of the… Read more: Review: Crystal Lake suffers a bit from its obsession with Pam Voorhees

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service has played a pivotal role in supporting Ukraine’s successful resistance to Russia’s full-scale invasion for years. But with Starlink having become increasingly unreliable due to Musk’s political inclinations and the… Read more: Ukraine learns to fight without Starlink as Musk plays politics with satellites

A tiny region deep within the brain has surprised scientists by revealing a remarkably sophisticated communication system. Previously thought to broadcast the same chemical signal throughout the brain, this region actually sends targeted messages that… Read more: Scientists discover a hidden messaging system deep inside the brain

A seven-year study found that people with Parkinson’s disease who were more physically active experienced slower declines in memory, thinking, and movement abilities. Those exercising more than eight hours per week showed almost no average… Read more: Scientists discover a surprising double benefit of exercise for Parkinson’s

Researchers have solved a long-standing challenge in understanding how tiny defects in materials like diamond and silicon carbide behave when exposed to light. Their new computational method revealed a surprisingly important energy-loss mechanism in silicon… Read more: A tiny defect in a crystal reveals a big quantum surprise

MIT engineers have built a paper-thin swimming robot powered by living muscle cells that respond to flashes of light, allowing it to swim and steer through water. The breakthrough could pave the way for tiny,… Read more: MIT scientists build a tiny robot that swims using living muscle cells

A newly FDA-cleared PTSD treatment uses personalized brain mapping and magnetic stimulation to target abnormal brain activity, with a clinical trial reporting a 52% reduction in symptoms and 68% remission. Researchers believe the technology could… Read more: Breakthrough PTSD treatment achieves 68% remission rate in clinical trial

Researchers have uncovered a surprising reason dental implant infections often resist antibiotics: the implants themselves can contribute to the problem. Bacteria corrode titanium implants, releasing microscopic particles that hijack immune cells, trigger destructive inflammation, and… Read more: Dental implants can hijack your immune system, scientists discover

Deep beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, a massive magma reservoir is refilling 7,300 years after one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in Earth’s recent geological history. Scientists used underwater seismic surveys to reveal a vast… Read more: One of Earth’s most powerful supervolcanoes is refilling with fresh magma

Infosys’ AI revenue grew 29% sequentially in the September quarter, accounting for 10.5% of total revenue, even as the company cut its full-year FY27 revenue growth guidance to 1%-2% in constant currency from 1.5%-3%. The… Read more: Infosys AI Revenue Rises 29% in Q2, FY27 Growth Guidance Cut

New XTAI Release Gives Organizations a Vendor-Agnostic Control Plane to Manage, Govern, and Optimize Enterprise-Scale AI XTIUM, a global AI-Native MSP, today announced the latest release of XTAI (XTIUM Trusted AI), the next major milestone… Read more: XTIUM Announced the Launch of XTAI Orchestrator

Hitachi Solutions America, Ltd., a global provider of business transformation solutions built on Microsoft technologies, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to help organizations accelerate data modernization and AI readiness through the integration of NVIDIA… Read more: Hitachi Solutions Partners With NVIDIA to Advance Enterprise AI Readiness

MCP Server connection provides mutual customers with additional ways to work with firm knowledge and governed iManage content directly within Legora Legora, the agentic operating system for legal work, and iManage, the company dedicated to… Read more: Legora, iManage Deepen Integration Through iManage MCP Server

LTM, an IT services and consulting company, has launched its BlueVerse Industrial AI Lab in Chennai to help enterprises develop and validate AI solutions for industrial operations and intelligent products. According to LTM, the lab… Read more: LTM Launches BlueVerse Industrial AI Lab in Chennai

Chariot, a frontier AI research lab, launched Chariot-1-ASR Realtime on October 22, a speech recognition model that converts spoken words into text while people are still talking. The company said the model outperformed every streaming… Read more: Chariot Launches Speech Recognition Model for 10 Indian Languages

We’re witnessing a ‘ChatGPT’ moment for AI agents. They’re no longer the artisanal workflows that only AI-savvy folks could assemble.  Thanks to Muse, Instinct, and a growing number of agents which need zero setup, everyone… Read more: AMD’s Server CPU Business Faces a New AI Boom

An old idea springs anew as a chorus of influential voices predicts that AI may trigger crises of vast magnitude In a preface to his book Capitalism and Freedom, the American economist Milton Friedman famously… Read more: Is a job guarantee the solution to mass AI unemployment?

Meta expects capital expenditure of $135-145 billion in 2026 as it continues investing in AI infrastructure and developing new products, according to its third-quarter financial results released on October 21.  The company says its AI… Read more: Meta Expects Up To $145 Billion In Capex As AI Investments Expand

Cyient’s Q2 FY27 performance reflected improving profitability in its Digital, Engineering and Technology (DET) business, even as organic revenue growth remained modest. The segment reported its highest EBIT in 10 quarters, with margins expanding to… Read more: Cyient’s Technology Order Intake Rises 39.7% as It Expands AI Capabilities

New application gives risk teams a structured way to assess and monitor third-party AI use, grounded in the NIST AI Risk Management Framework Aravo, a provider of third-party risk management and resilience solutions, today announced… Read more: Aravo Announces the Launch of Responsible AI Risk Application

Warp Sciences, a startup founded by former leaders from OpenAI, Meta, Terremoto Biosciences and Devoted Health, has raised $215 million to build chemistry research facilities in the US. The startup uses AI and robotics to… Read more: Former OpenAI Exec Raises $215 Mn to Build AI-Powered Drug Research Labs

Take a selfie to see how healthy you are: the idea is enticing and this new research is promising. But so many factors have been ignored The idea that a single selfie could predict how… Read more: Can AI really predict cancer survival better than a doctor? I have my doubts | Devi Sridhar

When Seema Kharad, a visually impaired student in Pune, was preparing to pursue a PhD in political science, finding accessible study material was a challenge. Many of the books and academic documents she needed were… Read more: How an Engineer Is Using AI to Bridge the Accessible Education Gap

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation, which operates Lincoln Tech, is deploying AI agents across its enrolment operations through its partnership with LeadSquared, an AI-powered CRM platform provider, focusing on student engagement, application processing and follow-ups. The… Read more: Lincoln Tech Deploys LeadSquared AI Agents Across Student Enrolment Operations

Cambridge researchers have created a groundbreaking $10 optical sensor that delivers the precision of laboratory equipment in a device small enough for wearable technology. It identified foods, plastics, and medicines with 100% accuracy in tests… Read more: Cambridge scientists create a $10 chip that could put a medical lab on your wrist

A massive analysis of 2,884 exploding stars has uncovered new evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the universe’s expansion, may change over time. The findings challenge a cornerstone of modern cosmology and could… Read more: Nearly 3,000 exploding stars challenge our understanding of the Universe

Forty years after the Chornobyl disaster, tiny radioactive particles still linger in the soil, carrying a dangerous legacy. Using powerful X-rays, scientists discovered that some of these particles have remained surprisingly stable, trapping radioactive substances… Read more: 40 years later, Chernobyl’s nuclear fallout is not what scientists expected

Generative artificial intelligence models are rooted in ideas of mid-20th century engineers who thought some amount of irrationality was essential for a machine that could think like a human, contends Benjamin Lindquist, an assistant professor… Read more: Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Since its launch, Zoom has been defined by one word: video. Customers, consumers, investors and competitors have long known Zoom as the industry’s easiest-to-use and best video platform. However, even before the pandemic, the company… Read more: Zoom’s next act: From video company to AI data platform

Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI Group PBC might have plans to go public in the near future, but it isn’t done with private funding rounds. Indeed, it’s currently believed to be negotiating with investors an additional… Read more: Report: OpenAI closing on $30B ‘bridge’ funding round to tide it over before IPO

Comcast reportedly plans significant job cuts in its cable division as the firm continues to lose residential broadband and TV customers. Comcast lost 144,000 residential broadband customers in Q3 2026, up from a 91,000-customer loss… Read more: Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs’ cheap prices are “irrational”

NASA does not have, nor want, nuclear weapons. But when it comes to a particular metric that is part of the Artemis Program to land people on the Moon, NASA guards a particular number like… Read more: Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.

Personalized mRNA vaccines against melanoma—the deadliest form of skin cancer—reduced the risk of death or recurrence by 42 percent compared to standard treatment in a late-stage trial, pharmaceutical partners Merck and Moderna announced Thursday. The… Read more: Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%

A security researcher has demonstrated a software-only partial jailbreak of the Switch 2, gaining “userland” access that he says “lets us run homebrew, reverse engineer and mod Switch 2 games, back up save files off… Read more: Switch 2 security takes a hit as hackers unlock homebrew access

The Agentic AI Foundation, a consortium that maintains open-source artificial intelligence tools, today took four new projects under its wing. The technologies were donated by OpenAI Group PBC, Anthropic PBC, Hugging Face Inc. and Alibaba… Read more: Agentic AI Foundation adds four more open-source AI tools

Zoom unveils AI agents and its Unified Context Layer at Zoomtopia 2026. Learn how its new automation and security tools could affect IT teams. The post Zoomtopia 2026: Zoom Introduces AI Agents, New Security Controls… Read more: Zoomtopia 2026: Zoom Introduces AI Agents, New Security Controls

Datacenter and chip costs fueled sharp decrease in AI sector although non-AI stocks still had a strong showing The latest shudder for stocks in the AI industry pulled markets lower worldwide on Thursday, while oil… Read more: Sharp drops for AI stocks overwhelm markets worldwide as oil prices jump

Those mourning yesterday’s shuttering of highly praised and influential developer BioWare also had to deal with the cancellation of the next Mass Effect game, which was first teased back in 2020. Today, we got our… Read more: Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer gives a taste of what we’re all missing

eMudra, the certificate authority that issued eight intermediate TLS credentials so weak that anyone could mint certificates for any website or mail server—one had a private encryption key of just 4—said it’s getting out of… Read more: Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4

Financial institutions have long treated employee communications as something to archive for regulators. During the Smarsh EDGE event, that archive was recast as a source of business intelligence. Artificial intelligence can now analyze a year… Read more: 4 insights from Smarsh EDGE: Governance becomes the foundation for communications intelligence

Texas has shut down the web portal for its automated construction permit filing system and suspended construction permits of 17 data center projects. The change came after 404 Media reported that a group of Texans… Read more: Portal Texas Used to ‘Rubber Stamp’ Data Centers Down After 404 Media Reporting

A man in Sydney, Australia was arrested this week after telling Anthropic’s Claude that he wanted to kill children at a daycare near his home. As the Sydney Morning Herald reported, 29-year-old David Lan Thackray… Read more: Man Arrested After Telling Claude About Plans to Shoot Up Daycare

As a child, you likely saw a few Disney movies depicting inanimate objects, such as clocks, cups, and toys, as interactive companions to humans — an act of pure magic, seemingly. But scientists at MIT’s Computer Science… Read more: This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices

OpenAI used nearly 2,000 AI agents to analyze mouse brain-cell data in 32 minutes, uncovering possible links to neurological diseases for further study. The post OpenAI Ran Nearly 2,000 AI Agents on Brain Data: What… Read more: OpenAI Ran Nearly 2,000 AI Agents on Brain Data: What They Found in 32 Minutes

Explore Google Chrome’s features, Gemini AI, Auto Browse, security settings, privacy controls, and Chrome Enterprise tools in this complete cheat sheet. The post Google Chrome Cheat Sheet: Features, Gemini AI, Security, and More appeared first… Read more: Google Chrome Cheat Sheet: Features, Gemini AI, Security, and More

Four years ago, a senior official in Russia’s foreign ministry painted a bullseye on commercial satellite networks that assist Ukraine in its fight against invading Russian military forces. On Wednesday, several days after a Russian… Read more: US official: Russia’s stalker satellite sure looks like an orbital weapon

Android-powered foldable phones have been available for years, but most people never paid attention to them. As predicted, that could be changing now that Apple has entered the folding phone market with the iPhone Duo.… Read more: Samsung all but confirms iPhone Duo is goosing Galaxy Z8 sales

BMW provided flights from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles and accommodation so Ars could drive the new X5 and iX5, as well as a refreshed i7 (which you can read about soon). Ars does not… Read more: Electric or gas? BMW goes both ways with new 2027 X5 and iX5.

Calley Means—a top ally to anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a co-author of the so-called “MAHA bible”—resigned from his role in the Trump administration Thursday, reportedly in frustration over delays to food… Read more: “Disillusioned” MAHA leader quits as Trump admin’s food agenda spoils: Report

A 25-year-old German experimental photographer has won the 2026 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition with a striking image of droplets of ink being deposited on paper by an inkjet printer. Ole Bielfeldt beat out 1,802… Read more: Meet the 2026 winner of Nikon’s Small World photomicrography contest

WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”

Steven Wong/Unsplash If you work at a university today, you talk a lot with the dead. I don’t mean that as a metaphor – or, at least, not entirely. Generative AI trains on people. Its… Read more: Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returns next month for its third season. Prime Video unveiled a teaser earlier this year at San Diego Comic-Con, but we haven’t heard much about the new… Read more: Sauron recruits his future Ringwraiths in Rings of Power S3 trailer

Amazon has warned that vulnerabilities in a programming language that underpins much of the Internet, discovered using AI tools, are being “broadly exploited” as governments and companies rush to secure their systems. The world’s largest… Read more: Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability

Last year, we reported on Red Viper, a Virtual Boy emulator that added a splash of Super Game Boy-style color to Nintendo’s famously failed red-on-black “portable” 3D headset from the ’90s. Now, a new emulation… Read more: This emulator reimagines Nintendo’s Virtual Boy with a full color display

Government officials in Guinea-Bissau have formally rejected a clinical trial that would be run by Danish researchers and funded by the US to look for alleged nonspecific harms from the newborn dose of the hepatitis… Read more: US-backed vaccine trial on babies canceled after international outcry