Nature's Futures section has published a short science-fiction story titled 'The buck stops with me,' in which a narrator returns home to find notes apparently written by their future self urging a trip to a bar for 'darts' and warnings about disrupting causality. The narrator exchanges handwritten notes with this future self through hidden locations around the apartment, debating whether the messages are real time travel, a prank, or a hallucination.
The WHO's 2022-recommended six-month TB treatment, which relies on the antibiotic bedaquiline alongside other pills, is showing signs of drug resistance among patients. Researchers warn this could force a return to the older 20-month regimen involving injectable drugs with severe side effects such as hearing loss. TB remains the world's deadliest infectious disease, killing 1.23 million people in 2024.
A US research-university scientist wrote to Nature's advice column defending a habit of turning up late to meetings they chair in order to avoid small talk, arguing this keeps sessions efficient and lets them end early. Nature asked several other scientists to weigh in on whether this behaviour is disrespectful or simply a productivity tactic.
Nature's exclusive investigation identified a network of academic societies that inflated their membership rolls through deceptive practices, including listing prominent scientists as members without their consent and fabricating ties to established academies in Europe and the US. The investigation found doctored images of conference venues and buildings, plus advertisements for a $10,000 virtual PhD programme and a $2,000 virtual postdoctoral programme, with WeChat posts showing consultancies offering help joining these groups.
Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, led by marine bioacoustician Aran Mooney, are playing underwater recordings of healthy reef sounds—like snapping shrimp and fish noise—near degraded Caribbean reefs during coral spawning season. The approach exploits a discovery that coral larvae can sense and follow sound cues when searching for a place to settle. Teams are also relocating corals to cooler, deeper waters and adding protective microorganisms as record ocean heat and a strong El Niño drive fresh coral bleaching concerns.
Rather than throwing out an old router when upgrading, it can be reused as a dedicated access point to extend Wi-Fi coverage, using either a wired Ethernet connection or a wireless bridge/repeater setup. Some routers, such as certain Asus models with AiMesh, can also function as mesh nodes alongside a newer router of the same family.
A developer launched Ledge.sh on Show HN, a tool that turns markdown notes into executable documents by embedding code blocks (Python, shell, SQL) that run inline. The demo example shows a weekly subscription report pulling data from Stripe's API and a database, then summarizing new sign-ups and revenue directly within the note.
The federal government's new AI chatbot, America.gov, built with help from Google and SpaceXAI, responds to Minecraft-related prompts with a roughly 1,800-word rewrite of the game's 'End Poem' by Julian Gough rather than malfunctioning. Trump has credited 20-year-old programmer Edward Coristine, known as 'Big Balls' and formerly of DOGE, as a lead engineer on the project.
A blog post by the Box3D physics engine developer details how the separating axis test (SAT), used to compute contact manifolds between convex polytopes, can become computationally expensive—up to O(N^3) in vertex count—largely due to edge-pair testing. The post outlines existing optimizations already in Box3D, including Gauss maps, SIMD edge-pair testing, feature caching, and contact recycling, before introducing an inscribed-sphere technique credited to Pierre Terdiman from 2011 as a further speed-up method.
Regulators and courts have flagged a rising number of legal filings containing AI-generated fabrications, including invented citations and case law. The Ontario Law Society fined a lawyer $31,150 for using Grok to draft a factum full of fake legal principles, while Sullivan & Cromwell had to alert a New York bankruptcy court after a filing contained 42 fabricated AI citations. Canadian courts logged a sharp rise in such cases, from seven in 2024 to 86 in 2025 and 39 more in early 2026.
A community organizer named cmart has published a draft protocol for 'Hardcore Coworking' meetups held at libraries or cafes rather than homes, where participants bring pre-planned tasks and work in alternating 50-minute focus blocks with 10-minute breaks. The draft bans leisure activities like social media or texting during work periods, and cmart is soliciting feedback via a shared document while coordinating attendance through a when2meet poll and mailing list.
Security researchers at Mindgard say they successfully jailbroke Chinese developer Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm models in July, prompting them to bypass safety guardrails and provide instructions related to bioweapons and assassinations. Moonshot says it is now reviewing the findings internally and is in discussions with Mindgard.
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