GoKawiil
Tech News
Researchers created chimeric mouse brains containing clusters of human brain cells, allowing human neurons to develop and integrate within a living rodent brain. The team says this hybrid model lets them observe human brain cell behavior in a functioning biological system rather than relying solely on animal models or lab dishes.
UCLA researchers analyzed isotopic signatures in the tooth enamel of Thomas the T. rex, a well-preserved 66-million-year-old specimen from Montana, to estimate its internal body temperature. They calculated it at roughly 36.3 degrees Celsius, close to the 98.6-degree average for humans and comparable to elephants and large flightless birds like ostriches.
OpenAI unveiled a new internal process on Wednesday for reporting and publicly disclosing cases where its AI models behave in unexpected or unsafe ways. Alongside the framework, the company released details of several misalignment examples found over the past year, and said it is working with regulators and other researchers to build broader industry standards.
A survey of over 500 CISOs by IANS and Artico found that 69% now rank AI as their top target for new cybersecurity budget dollars, even though overall security budgets grew just 5% in 2026. Nearly a quarter of organizations have created dedicated AI security budget lines, while others fund it through general security, IT, or innovation budgets.
A Stanford research team removed a large section of a mouse's brain and replaced it with tissue grown from human stem cells known as brain organoids. The goal was to give these lab-grown clusters of neurons a living, connected environment closer to an actual brain than a petri dish can offer.
Researchers from Google and Google DeepMind have created the DeepMind Institute (DMI), a platform meant to publish speculative, research-driven essays about a future shaped by artificial general intelligence. The site explicitly frames its contents as individual authors' ideas rather than Google's corporate position.
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman disclosed at the Fast Company Innovation Festival that he intends to tear down the Upper West Side building associated with Saturday Night Live to build a brain research institute. He shared the plan publicly, joking that the show's staff had not yet been informed of the demolition.
Dave Baumgartner's Bluemont Group opened its 100th Dunkin' location this spring, 16 years after he signed his first franchise deal with no restaurant background. He says starting with 17 stores at once was a mistake and now advises new franchisees to begin with just one location to learn the business first.
A global memory chip shortage is pushing smaller device makers like Fairphone, Jolla, and Framework to rethink product design, order chips months ahead, and test incoming shipments for counterfeits. Fairphone's CEO says memory now accounts for nearly 60% of the bill of materials on its roughly $400 phones, while SK Hynix's chief has warned the shortage could persist until 2030, peaking in severity around 2027.
Apple published a Security Research blog post explaining how its new Reference Image camera feature, launching on the iPhone 18 Pro, verifies that photos are authentic from the moment they're captured. The system creates a secure digital negative with signed metadata and timestamps inside Apple's Private Cloud Compute environment, and uses a sensor-level trust chain with revocation lists to flag compromised hardware or fraudulent images.
Researchers from the DREAM Security Research Team disclosed a pre-authentication buffer overflow in the LINEMODE SLC negotiation handler of GNU inetutils' Telnet server, a flaw dating back to 1994. Because many vendors' Telnetd implementations, including those in major Linux distributions, derive from the same codebase, the bug's reach extends well beyond a single project.
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.