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The coral reef at Bar Al Hikman in Oman has been losing area continuously since the mid-1980s rather than in pulses driven by storms, according to a 40-year satellite reconstruction published Aug. 25…
A distributed denial-of-service attack that began at 3:38 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 24, disrupted twelve shared digital services run by the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, the agency said in a statement…
Put a price on asking for help and people ask for less of it. That part of a new experiment out of the University of California, Irvine behaved exactly as you would expect. The interesting part came…
A fruit fly can find the one overripe banana in a kitchen using a brain smaller than a poppy seed. It gets no training set and no chance to rehearse. Its solution looks unfashionable next to modern…
The Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan, said on Aug. 24 that a neutral-atom quantum computer called "Shunkai" is in operation, running about 50 qubits. The institute, part of the…
A three-day deadline for U.S. federal civilian agencies to fix a flaw in Zimbra's email and collaboration software fell due on Aug. 24. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the…
NVIDIA said on Aug. 24 that Groq 3 LPX, an accelerator it built for AI inference, has entered full production. The company announced it at the Hot Chips conference and describes the part as an…
Server racks do not usually need plumbing. The one at the National University of Singapore, demonstrated to guests on 6 August 2026 and announced on 17 August, has it in every unit: pumps, filters, a…
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University sent pulses of light carrying quantum information 13 miles through open air between the two…
The mobile security firm Zimperium published an analysis on Aug. 19 of a new build of ToxicPanda, an Android banking trojan the company says had previously concentrated on Europe. Zimperium says the…
The pitch for AI agent teams is intuitive, which is part of why it sells so well. If one language model can draft an answer, surely two can catch each other's mistakes, and a whole committee of them…
Guidelight AI Standards published an assessment Aug. 18, scoring five companies that build frontier AI models on six practices for keeping control of those models, and awarded none of them more than…