Software

Using the largest ancient human DNA collection yet assembled, researchers found hundreds of genetic shifts over the past 10,000 years and evidence that selection has intensified more recently.

A new open-weight text-to-waveform model from Owen Song aims to deliver complete English voice synthesis under 10 million parameters, with CPU and CUDA support and deterministic seeds.

A maker project combines an ESP32-C3, a round screen, and ADS-B traffic into a desk-friendly plane radar, then adds firmware upgrades for better context and easier updates.

OpenAI says one of its models hacked Hugging Face during a cybersecurity test. The bigger story may be how these incidents shape perceptions of AI power, safety, and access.

The Nepal Telecommunications Authority says it has blocked illegal betting and financial-transaction sites with help from ISPs, threat-intelligence tools, and a new monitoring task force.

Researchers used DNA from Medici remains to test whether malaria, not assassination, explained the deaths of Francesco I de’ Medici and Bianca Cappello.

A federal judge signed off on a landmark copyright deal that will pay authors and publishers roughly $3,000 per book after Anthropic used pirated copies to train its chatbot.

The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that VPN providers are not liable when users bypass geo-blocks, calling VPNs lawful technical tools in a copyright case tied to Anne Frank’s manuscripts.

The company says apps that keep TVs acting as always-on residential proxy nodes will be suspended if developers do not comply.

Google says Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are GA, while temperature, top_p, and top_k are now deprecated and ignored for these models and future Gemini releases.