Forescout report finds many vulnerable solar devices run outdated firmware with known exploits active in the wild Europe holds 76% of all exposed solar power devices, with Germany and Greece particularly at risk SolarView Compact exposure jumped 350% in two years, and it’s already linked to cybercrime The rapid growth of solar energy adoption worldwide…
PACE, a light-based computer chip made by Lightelligence Lightelligence Computers that use light rather than electricity to represent and manipulate data could slash the power demands of data centres and simultaneously speed up calculations. Two studies published today describe breakthroughs in running real-world problems on light-based computers, making the technology on the verge of commercial…
Kendall Jenner, Pope Leo XIV and Prince Harry are just a few celebrities that have hit the headlines recently, and these famous faces also feature in this month’s quiz. But can you spot which of the images are real and which are AI generated? Challenge yourself to get full marks in this month’s AI or…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS In 2034, the first person landed on Mars. While she didn’t go there physically, she still experienced the planet intimately. She explored an ancient river delta and built a base. She put up a flag (China’s) and conducted a detailed analysis of rock samples. She achieved all this by inhabiting…
Many policy discussions on AI safety regulation have focused on the need to establish regulatory “guardrails” to protect the public from the risks of AI technology. In a new paper published in the journal Risk Analysis, two experts argue that, instead of imposing guardrails, policymakers should demand “leashes.” Director of the Penn Program on Regulation…
Are machines about to become smarter than humans? Chan2545/iStockphoto/Getty Images If you take the leaders of artificial intelligence companies at their word, their products mean that the coming decade will be quite unlike any in human history: a golden era of “radical abundance”, where high-energy physics is “solved” and we see the beginning of space…
Lead contamination in municipal water sources is a consistent threat to public health. Ingesting even tiny amounts of lead can harm the human brain and nervous system — especially in young children. To empower people to detect lead contamination in their own homes, a team of researchers developed an accessible, handheld water-testing system called the…
How is it already June when January lasted about three years? Well, somehow, we’ve made it to the halfway point of 2025 and the best streaming services are ramping up their offerings as we head into the summer season. With the rising cost of inflation kicking in pretty much everywhere, it’s not always optimal to…
Chris Baraniuk Technology Reporter Netflix In Netflix’s Adolescence the camera had to be attached to a drone while filming Three strong knocks from the police battering ram and the front door bursts open. There’s a lot of shouting. We follow heavily-armed officers as they stream into the house, a woman drops to the floor as…
Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in a large number of galaxies across the local universe. The findings provide a rare glimpse into processes shaping galaxies in the very early universe and possibly the Milky Way a few billion years from now. Known as luminous and ultra-luminous…
