Canon has launched the 24-megapixel EOS R8 II, an entry-level full-frame camera with a squared-off body inspired by its old EOS 650 film SLR, replacing the rounded look of the original R8. The update adds a joystick for autofocus point control, 40fps electronic shutter burst shooting, and Canon's first in-body 5-axis stabilization on this line, cutting shake by up to 7.5 stops while remaining the lightest full-frame stabilized camera at 546 grams.
Rapid7 reports that a stealthy espionage campaign has compromised South Korean automotive and media companies since early 2025, with medium-confidence attribution to North Korean APT37 based on overlapping command-and-control infrastructure. The attackers exploited the open-source HAProxy load balancer to install a custom Linux toolkit called TED, granting them visibility into and control over victims' network traffic.
In a first-person account, former NASA astronaut Charlie Precourt describes commanding Space Shuttle Atlantis through its final descent after a 10-day mission delivering supplies and a new crew to the Russian Mir station. He details disengaging the autopilot near Mach 1 at 45,000 feet and relying on mission pilot Eileen Collins' scripted calls to guide the unpowered glider to a precise touchdown at Kennedy Space Center.
Drawing on Sartre's philosophy and research from psychologists Jennifer Crocker, Katherine Knight, and social-media researchers, an Entrepreneur opinion piece argues that people who define themselves by labels like 'founder' or 'leader' become vulnerable to having ordinary setbacks feel like attacks on their identity. The author suggests focusing on actions rather than titles, and adopting a 'giver mindset' that measures success by contribution rather than external validation.
Speaking at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI is simply hardware and software built by humans, not some uncontrollable alien intelligence, and therefore doesn't require new laws to manage its risks. He argued that market forces alone will push companies to self-regulate, urging firms to pause releases if they're unsure about a product's safety rather than waiting for legal mandates.
Researchers analyzed human brain tissue samples from people with and without Alzheimer's disease and identified more than 1,000 microproteins that had previously gone undetected. Dozens of these small proteins showed different expression levels in Alzheimer's-affected brains compared with healthy ones. Separately, a mouse study found that immune cells activated by gut infections can travel to the brain's protective membrane and remain there as a lasting defensive memory.
New research examining stellar activity finds that outbursts resembling the Sun's coronal mass ejections and flares are uncommon among similar stars. Researchers compared magnetic and rotational characteristics across many stars to explain why the Sun's behavior may be more of an exception than the norm.
Stanford researchers led by James Zou built a system called Paper2Agent that automatically transforms a scientific paper's text, code and data into an AI agent acting as a stand-in for its corresponding author. The tool deposits a paper's materials onto an MCP server, has AI agents build tools that apply the paper's methods to new data, and lets scientists query the resulting agent in plain language via any large language model. In one test, it built an agent for the AlphaGenome paper in about 45 minutes for $14, and that agent answered genetics questions with near-perfect accuracy.
Researchers grafted lab-grown human brain tissue into mice that were bred without a cortex, and the transplanted tissue integrated and took root in the animals' brains. The study demonstrates that human neural tissue can survive and develop within a living rodent brain that lacks its own corresponding structure.
Scientists led by Asor and colleagues developed a technique to directly observe individual virus-like particles as their protein shells form, publishing the results in Nature. The method allowed them to measure the speed and energy changes of shell assembly, something previously very difficult to track experimentally.
Researchers report that cancer cells don't just passively resist immune detection—they actively alter the tissue around them to create a protective microenvironment. This process helps shield tumours from being recognized and destroyed by the body's immune defenses.
Researchers led by Sergiu Pașca at Stanford transplanted lab-grown human brain tissue into newborn mice missing part of their brains, and the tissue expanded to fill much of that space while forming functional connections with the host nervous system. Published in Nature on September 16, the study represents the most extensive fusion of human neural tissue into a living animal achieved to date, though behavioral tests showed the mice did not gain enhanced cognitive abilities.
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