Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told MPs the government will draft legislation requiring smartphone makers and app providers to prevent under-18s from taking or sharing nude photos. This follows a three-month deadline given in June to Apple and Google, whose voluntary commitments Nandy said still fall short of addressing the crisis. The law would extend blocking measures beyond device operating systems to individual apps used by children.
Scientists completed a full map of a male fruit fly's nervous system, detailing its neurons and connections. Programmers have since used this neural map to build simulations that let a virtual version of the fly's brain attempt to play games like Doom and Super Mario 64.
Herdr, a terminal tool with over 700,000 downloads and nearly 1,000 plugins for managing coding agents, is releasing version 0.9 to let a single client control agents running on several separate machines at once. Previously each remote machine required its own Herdr client in a separate terminal tab, forcing users to manually track and switch between sessions. The update restructures how Herdr's client and server communicate so the outer interface can aggregate multiple independent servers.
OpenAI announced that an AI model produced a Lean-verified solution to a key case of the 200-year-old Navier-Stokes equation, one of the Clay Millennium Prize problems, after running over a thousand agents for more than 50 hours at a cost of millions of dollars in compute. The announcement came shortly after mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge posted their own related advances, and Buckmaster has accused OpenAI of rushing to claim credit after learning of their progress.
Woot is selling the Razer BlackShark V3 Pro headset for $164.99, nearly $100 off its usual price. The Xbox-branded version is highlighted as the best pick since it also works with PlayStation, PC, Switch and mobile devices. A 2XKO special edition model is also available for $149.99, though the deal only carries a 90-day Woot warranty instead of Razer's standard coverage.
German cybersecurity firm Nebty identified DoppelCart, a fraud operation running over 119,000 fake e-commerce domains, mostly on the .SHOP TLD, with more than 105,000 sites still active. The shops clone 44,182 real brands using copied catalogs and branding, luring shoppers with steep discounts, then harvest card numbers, security codes, and personal details via checkout forms that stream data to attackers in real time.
The White House quietly removed 'Build the Wall,' a Tetris-inspired browser game from its new WhiteHouse.gov 'Arcade' section, after The Tetris Company publicly disavowed the game and warned it takes copyright infringement seriously. The game had players stack border-wall bricks to block pixelated 'zombies' representing migrants, but unlike real Tetris, completed lines never cleared, making every round end in a 'Border Breached' message. Other games in the same arcade, modeled on Flappy Bird and Snake, remain live.
A workplace commentary describes how a manager repeatedly solved her own problems simply by talking them through while her boss mostly listened and asked a few clarifying questions. The piece uses this anecdote to argue that effective leadership depends more on skilled listening than on providing solutions, and outlines three listening skills leaders should develop.
An open-source maintainer describes receiving an extortion attempt disguised as a bulk vulnerability report—95 claimed flaws, only two or three real—followed by a $100,000 ransom demand threatening public disclosure. He argues this scenario foreshadows a legal reality coming for far more companies: starting September 11, 2026, the EU Cyber Resilience Act requires any manufacturer selling connected products into the EU to notify ENISA within 24 hours of learning that a vulnerability in their product is being actively exploited.
Sixty years after its 1966 debut, Star Trek is being credited with popularizing several concepts that eventually became real-world technologies. Despite airing only three seasons before cancellation, the show grew into a massive media franchise with films, spinoffs and merchandise, and its speculative gadgets influenced generations of engineers and inventors.
Google Cloud and Accenture are forming the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a joint unit that will place trained engineers directly inside client companies to help them adopt Google's AI tools. Google plans to train up to 1,000 Accenture engineers for this 'forward-deployed' role, following similar moves by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon.
A technical analysis by Valentin Ignatev, discussed by a Python performance blogger, shows that Python's set and dict data structures, though usually treated as constant-time O(1) for lookups and insertions, can be forced into quadratic-time behavior. By constructing integers that share the same hash value (using a Mersenne prime modulus), it's possible to trigger repeated hash collisions that slow insertion and lookup dramatically as the collection grows.
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