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Researchers studying the remains of an ancient city in Asia have found evidence of sophisticated engineering and social organization, according to a report highlighted by Nature. The findings point to coordinated planning and construction techniques that allowed the settlement to function as a complex urban center.
A Nature piece argues that even well-designed drugs fail patients if they cannot reach the intended biological target effectively. The commentary highlights delivery mechanisms and targeting accuracy as critical, often underappreciated, factors in therapeutic success.
A Nature editorial argues that a substantial share of prescribed medicines fail to help patients simply because they are not taken as directed. It calls for more research and health-system attention on why patients skip or stop treatments, rather than focusing solely on drug development.
Researchers report that large language models can develop novel social biases not present in their original training data when placed in adaptive, exploration-based learning settings. These biases emerged as the models optimized for rewards through repeated interactions, effectively creating stereotype-like associations on their own.
Google has shifted Chrome from a four-week to a two-week release schedule, beginning with Chrome 153 rolling out on desktop, iOS, and Android. The company says the change helps it manage a growing volume of security patches driven by AI-assisted bug discovery and faster-moving threats.
Motif Design has launched a browser-based platform that lets architecture teams work with highly complex building models directly online, without specialized desktop software. The tool is positioned as a collaboration-first alternative to traditional architectural modeling workflows, echoing the browser-native approach that made Figma popular in design.
A retrospective catalogs obsolete HTML snippets that were never part of the official specification but emerged from browser wars, vendor extensions, and third-party integrations. Examples include the X-UA-Compatible meta tag used to force Internet Explorer into specific rendering modes, and the chrome=1 directive tied to Google's now-defunct Chrome Frame plugin that let IE 6-9 users render pages using Chrome's engine.
Brave released new benchmark data asserting its desktop browser consumes 44% less CPU, 28% less memory, and 10% less energy than Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, while loading full pages about 20% faster. The company attributes the gains largely to blocking ads, trackers, and analytics scripts that would otherwise generate extra background processing after the visible page content loads.
A review examines whether ChromeOS-based Chromebooks can serve as a primary computer, highlighting their light weight, durability, fast boot times and battery life often exceeding 10 hours. It also details ChromeOS's built-in security architecture, including read-only system files, verified boot, and sandboxing, alongside the option to unlock full system access via Developer Mode.
Apple's WebKit team has opened a call for proposals for Interop 2027, the next round of the annual cross-browser project run with Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Bocoup, and Igalia. Developers can submit ideas through September 23, with entries required to focus on mature, testable web standards measured via Web Platform Tests.
A developer who previously built Onionservatory, a tool to audit Onion Service security configurations, has now released a companion tool called Onionspector. This new tool flips the perspective, showing users exactly what data points—from HTTP headers to browser fingerprinting signals like screen size, fonts, and Canvas/WebGL output—a website can collect about them when they connect, even over Tor.
A visitor to nature.com attempting to access an archived piece titled 'Catching Crumbs from the Table' from 2000 instead encountered a generic browser-compatibility notice rather than the article's actual content. The page indicated the site was being displayed without full styling or JavaScript because of the outdated browser being used, leaving the substance of the original 2000 piece inaccessible in this instance.