A developer released Corral, a Linux command-line tool that runs a shell command with a time limit and ensures every process it spawned, including detached daemons, is terminated before returning. It uses cgroup v2's cgroup.kill for guaranteed cleanup when available, or acts as a child subreaper tracking processes via /proc and pidfds otherwise, and exits with code 120 if it cannot verify a clean kill. The tool requires Linux 5.11 or later, with 5.14 needed for its enforced cgroup mode, and is not intended as a security sandbox.
Apple's Shortcuts automation tool, available on Mac since macOS Monterey, gains a new AI feature called Describe a Shortcut in macOS 27 Golden Gate. The feature lets users type out what they want a shortcut to do and have the app assemble the actions automatically, rather than manually selecting and linking each action.
Peak XV Partners has increased the maximum per-company investment through its Surge seed program from $3 million to $5 million, applying the new ceiling for the first time to its latest batch, Surge 12. The firm put over $50 million into the 18-company cohort, which has raised more than $90 million in total seed funding, with at least three startups having secured outside capital before joining.
Nvidia approved a new $150 billion share repurchase program on Monday, raising its total buyback authorization to $235 billion through fiscal 2028. The company posted $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue, up 106% year-over-year, and returned about $26 billion to shareholders in the second quarter of fiscal 2027 through buybacks and dividends.
A Nature investigation has uncovered a network of bogus academic societies, including a fake 'National Academy of Artificial Intelligence,' that tricked computer scientist Moshe Vardi and other researchers into believing they'd won prestigious honors. One of the sham group's websites reportedly used a digitally altered image of a University of Gothenburg building to appear legitimate. Vardi had to retract a press release from his institution after realizing the award was not genuine.
New climate research finds that greenhouse gas emissions released after the 2015 Paris Agreement have intensified the severity of heatwaves across Europe. The findings attribute part of the recent extreme heat events to continued fossil fuel output following the accord's adoption.
Stanford University researchers led by Sergiu Pașca transplanted lab-grown human brain organoids into mice bred to lack most of their cerebral cortex. The transplanted tissue survived and formed functional connections to the animals' brains and spinal cords, according to a study published in Nature. The team describes it as the most extensive integration of human brain cells into an animal achieved to date.
The US Food and Drug Administration has published a discussion paper inviting feedback on how to regulate generative-AI-enabled medical devices, with submissions due by a set deadline. The move comes as thousands of studies on AI tools in clinical medicine are published yearly and more than 230 million people weekly ask chatbots health-related questions.
The source page, hosted on nature.com, does not display its intended content about creatures observed during the Challenger expedition. Instead, visitors are shown a generic notice about limited browser support for CSS and a recommendation to update their browser or disable compatibility mode.
In her new book Better Tech: Putting People First in Cyberspace, computer scientist Francine Berman argues that digital technologies like search engines and social media should be regulated with the same seriousness as roads, power grids and financial systems. She contends search engines crossed the threshold into critical infrastructure once online search became the primary way people find information and make decisions.
Researchers led by Conery et al., writing in Nature, report a strategy for treating lung cancers driven by mutated kinase enzymes that destroys the target protein entirely rather than merely inhibiting its activity. The approach is aimed at cancers that develop resistance to existing kinase inhibitors after acquiring mutations near the drug's binding site. Twenty-eight kinase inhibitors are already FDA-approved across nine molecular lung cancer subtypes, but many patients eventually relapse due to such resistance mutations.
Vita is a new English-language, open-access biology journal jointly funded by China's Higher Education Press and Westlake University, with its first print issue released in July. It waives article-processing charges for authors and is fully Chinese-owned and Chinese-published, unlike many past China-based journals that partnered with international publishers.
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