Discord’s system resource hogging days may be over, with new ‘Game Mode’
Discord’s system resource hogging days may be over, with new ‘Game Mode’

Finally, Discord is working on a ‘Game Mode’ to reduce CPU and GPU consumption while gaming, but it seems there’s still a lot of work to be done.

Study shows drone defibrillator delivery could significant improve coverage
Study shows drone defibrillator delivery could significant improve coverage

New research from a team in France shows average improvements of 3.76 minutes in delivery times.

Netflix’s Wonka show uses an AI Gene Wilder voice, and viewers object
Netflix’s Wonka show uses an AI Gene Wilder voice, and viewers object

Netflix’s new reality competition, Wonka’s The Golden Ticket, uses an AI recreation of Gene Wilder’s voice, and viewers have pushed back. The voice narrates the show and explains the rules to contestants. Wilder, who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film…

Hackers exploited a critical WordPress flaw within hours of the patch
Hackers exploited a critical WordPress flaw within hours of the patch

Attackers began exploiting a critical WordPress flaw within hours of the fix. The bug, CVE-2026-87902, can let an attacker with no login run code on a website’s server. It only works under certain conditions. WordPress fixed the flaw in version 7.1.2 o…

OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government

Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.

Why Understanding People Could Be The Key To Saving Sharks

We have spent decades learning how sharks live, hunt and reproduce. But if we want to conserve them, we also need to understand the humans sharing their oceans. A new scoping review of 171 peer-reviewed studies reveals what we know about people’s perce…

​The Best AI-Augmented Executive Is Not The Most Automated One

What matters is what we delegate, what we augment, what we keep practicing ourselves and whether our distinctly human capabilities get stronger through working with AI or quietly atrophy.

Denuvo cracking group DenuvOwO reportedly disbands

Denuvo hypervisor-bypassing group DenuvOwO reportedly disbands — lawsuit from Irdeto has a chilling effect, but cracking continues

Granite raises €4M to bring its agentic cloud infrastructure to market

AI infrastructure company Granite has secured €4million in funding in a round led by Bifrost Studios, alongside private investors, to commercialise itstechnology and bring its software and hardware to…

Why the World’s Biggest Radio Telescope Had to Tweak Nature’s Perfect Sunflower Spiral
Why the World’s Biggest Radio Telescope Had to Tweak Nature’s Perfect Sunflower Spiral

Scientists love taking inspiration from nature. The evolutionary processes that have created such a diverse panoply of life on Earth can be a great source of ideas in solving technical problems. One such example is the pattern of sunflower seeds – they…

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