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BBC News
Racism and staff shortages factors in 'failing' maternity care, report finds - The interim report has identified problems "at every stage" of the maternity journey in England.
Cuba says it shot dead four people on US-registered speedboat - The passengers were Cuban nationals living in the US and intended to "carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes", the Cuban government says.
This coastal idyll banned 'harmful' holiday lets. Eight years on, has it worked? - A ban on new holiday homes sees more permanent residents but some say the policy harms tourism.
Watch: BBC on streets of Mexican city gripped by deadly cartel violence - BBC international correspondent Quentin Sommerville travelled to Culiacán in northern Sinaloa state following an explosion in violence.
Royal Mail bosses to be called to Parliament over letter delivery failures - It comes after hundreds of people contacted BBC Your Voice to express frustration over late deliveries.
The Register
GCHQ dangles up to £130K for a CISO to fight the world's most capable adversaries - No pressure GCHQ is looking to recruit a chief information security officer (CISO), a job it describes as "one of the most influential cybersecurity leadership roles in the UK," at a salary of £96,981 to £130,000.…
Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions - Ministry of Justice wowed by Ontario's paperless system, announces £12M for AI unit The British government will expand the use of AI in courts in England and Wales as part of plans to make them work faster, justice minister David Lammy has told a Microsoft AI event.…
AMD puts $250M into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs - Cloudy stack vendor says VMware refugees have started to arrive in large numbers, just in time to collide with supply chain woes AMD has struck another chips 'n' stock deal, this time with software-defined datacenter player Nutanix.…
Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe - It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play - along with a cute little monster Microsoft is “fully cooperating” with a probe by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, which wants to know if the software giant has violated the nation’s anti-monopoly laws.…
Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse - Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they do Even by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.…
New Scientist - Home
Why I have changed my mind about AI and you should too - Both boosters and sceptics have strongly held opinions on AI tools like ChatGPT, but after an experiment in vibe coding, I have realised that both camps are wrong, says Jacob Aron
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations - Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
The Human Flatus Atlas plans to measure the explosivity of farts - Feedback is excited to learn that University of Maryland researchers are measuring farts in a bid to build a Human Flatus Atlas, a project that seems destined for an Ig Nobel
What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot - From ice ages to asteroid strikes, an epic book shows how important it has been for humans to look outwards. Alex Wilkins surveys a climate historian's cosmic sweep
SpaceX's 1 million satellites could avoid environmental checks - The environmental impact of SpaceX's planned gargantuan mega-constellation is still being grappled with, but the FCC isn’t required to study it
Hacker News
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Slashdot
Cloudflare Experiment Ports Most of Next.js API in 'One Week' With AI - An anonymous reader shares a report: A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94% of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens. The purpose of the experimental project was not to show off AI coding, but to address an issue with Next.js, the popular React-based framework sponsored by Vercel. According to Cloudflare engineering director Steve Faulkner, the Next.js tooling is "entirely bespoke... If you want to deploy it to Cloudflare, Netlify, or AWS Lambda, you have to take that build output and reshape it into something the target platform can actually run." The Next.js team is addressing this following numerous complaints that deploying the framework with full features on platforms other than Vercel is too difficult, with a feature in progress called deployment adapters. "Vercel will use the same adapter API as every other partner," the company said when introducing the planned feature last year. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Uber Employees Have Built an AI Clone of Their CEO To Practice Presentations Before the Real Thing - An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Uber employees have built an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi -- internally dubbed "Dara AI" -- and have been using it to rehearse and fine-tune presentations before delivering them to the actual Khosrowshahi, he revealed on a recent podcast. Khosrowshahi said a team member told him that some teams "make the presentation to the Dara AI as a prep for making a presentation to me," and that the bot helps them adjust their slides and sharpen their delivery. Asked by the podcast host whether employees might eventually show Dara AI to the board, Khosrowshahi laughed but noted that AI models still can't process and act on new information the way executives do. "When the models can learn in real-time, that is the point at which I'm going to think that, yeah, we are all replaceable," he said. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
AI Can Find Hundreds of Software Bugs -- Fixing Them Is Another Story - Anthropic last week promoted Claude Code Security, a research preview capability that uses its Claude Opus 4.6 model to hunt for software vulnerabilities, claiming its red team had surfaced over 500 bugs in production open-source codebases -- but security researchers say the real bottleneck was never discovery. Guy Azari, a former security researcher at Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks, told The Register that only two to three of those 500 vulnerabilities have been fixed and none have received CVE assignments. The National Vulnerability Database already carried a backlog of roughly 30,000 CVE entries awaiting analysis in 2025, and nearly two-thirds of reported open-source vulnerabilities lacked an NVD severity score. The curl project closed its bug bounty program because maintainers could no longer handle the flood of poorly crafted reports from AI tools and humans alike. Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO of security firm Socket, said discovery is becoming dramatically cheaper but validating findings, coordinating with maintainers, and developing architecture-aligned patches remains slow, human-intensive work. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Prediction Market Platform Kalshi Discloses First Insider Trading Enforcement Action - Kalshi, the prediction market platform regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has for the first time publicly disclosed the results of an insider trading investigation, naming an editor for YouTube's biggest creator as the offender. The company identified Artem Kaptur, an editor for MrBeast, who it says traded around $4,000 on markets tied to the streamer and achieved "near-perfect trading success" on low-odds bets -- a pattern investigators flagged as suspicious. Kalshi froze Kaptur's account before he could withdraw any profits, fined him $20,000, suspended him for two years, and reported the case to the CFTC. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers To Use AI. They're Enforcing It. - Tech companies ranging from 300-person startups to giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Salesforce have moved beyond encouraging employees to use AI tools and are now actively tracking adoption and, in several cases, tying it to performance reviews. Google is factoring AI use into some software engineer reviews for the first time this year, and Meta's new performance review system will do the same -- it can track how many lines of code an engineer wrote with AI assistance. Amazon Web Services managers have dashboards showing individual engineer AI-tool usage and consider adoption when evaluating promotions. About 42% of tech-industry workers said their direct manager expects AI use in daily work as of last October, up from 32% eight months earlier, according to AI consulting firm Section. At software maker Autodesk, CEO Andrew Anagnost acknowledged that some employees had been using initially blocked coding tools like Cursor stealthily -- and warned that AI holdouts "probably won't survive long term." Read more of this story at Slashdot.