September 25, 2025

Tech

UK researchers Ed Wild and Sarah Tabrizi achieved the first successful Huntington’s gene therapy, slowing progression 75 % over three years in 29 patients via a 12–18 hour virus‑delivered microRNA surgery, preserving mobility and cognition but remaining expensive and limited.

Intel and NVIDIA’s joint “RTX SoC” blends Intel x86 cores with NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets via NVLink, aiming to rival AMD’s 16‑core Ryzen‑RDNA 3.5 sets. The 2027 silicon release could reshape gaming, AI, and OEM costs.

Xcel Energy agreed to pay $640 million to settle lawsuits over Colorado’s 2021 Marshall Wildfire, which destroyed nearly 1,000 structures and two lives. The settlement, reached before trial, will be covered by insurance, sparing customers, but Xcel maintains no liability.

Stargate alliance with OpenAI and Oracle plans a $500 billion investment to dominate the $4 trillion AI market surpass Amazon and Microsoft. It invested $2 billion in Intel, builds AI‑robot parks, cut 20% of Vision Fund staff, Altman highlighted the effort on site.

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NASA's Artemis II mission is set for an early 2026 launch, marking the first crewed lunar orbit mission in over 50 years. The three US astronauts and one Canadian astronaut will send humans into lunar orbit without landing on the surface.

Fiverr's decision to cut 30% of its workforce comes as part of a growing trend of tech companies adapting to AI adoption, joining others like Dropbox and Klarna in streamlining operations to focus on high-growth areas with reduced staff.

AI's impact on programming languages is being reevaluated, with some predicting obsolescence for popular languages like Python, JavaScript, and SQL due to emerging alternatives like Vibe coding, potentially shifting the landscape of traditional programming methods.

Researchers at MIT have created a magnetic transistor that could enable smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient circuits by replacing silicon with a novel material and optimization process, boosting performance and unlocking new applications for high-performance electronics.

Bain’s Global Technology Report predicts 2030 AI compute demand at 200 GW, driving $500 B capital spend and $2 T revenue; firms still face $800 B shortfall. Enterprises gain via 5‑10% tech investment in agent orchestration, quantum, humanoid opportunities amid fragmented supply chains.

Sam Altman acknowledged worries about OpenAI’s $850 billion infrastructure bill while announcing the company’s first StarGate data‑center—a $500 billion initiative starting in Texas and soon extending to New Mexico and Ohio—alongside a freshly secured $100 billion Nvidia partnership reached in a last‑minute deal.

Managers using AI to generate email content are perceived as insincere and less empathetic by employees, potentially eroding trust in their leadership. Employees may question a manager's confidence when receiving AI-generated responses, leading to a breakdown of trust.

The Trump administration plans to launch WISeR, a pilot program using AI to deny Medicare prior authorization for "wasteful" services, raising concerns over delayed or denied life-saving treatments and potential biases in algorithmic decision-making processes.

A recent study found that AI chatbots like ChatGPT-5 are wrong about one in four times due to biased benchmarking and leaderboards, prioritizing confident answers over uncertainty. This can be problematic in high-stakes cases with severe consequences.

YouTube's AI age estimation system has been rolled out more aggressively, causing a surge in age-related restrictions for users. Experts criticize the system as "creepy" and overly intrusive, while Google assures that verified data won't be used for ads.

Riley Walz's "Find My Parking Cops" website tracks San Francisco parking enforcement officers' locations and activity in real-time, using publicly available data from the city's transportation agency to help car owners avoid tickets and fines.

Researchers at Radware successfully tricked OpenAI's Deep Research agent into sharing sensitive email data by planting a malicious prompt, highlighting a vulnerability that unleashes new risks when AI agents are connected to multiple repositories and databases.

Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service (S3) leverages massive parallelism to serve high read throughput on slow hard disk drives, achieving tolerable latency and outstanding throughput through erasure coding and load-balancing techniques, supporting 400+ trillion objects and 150 million requests per second.

This article introduces Postgres extension development, covering procedural languages, foreign data wrappers, index types, and storage systems through a step-by-step guide on creating a blocking DDL command extension, highlighting key considerations like preserving previously set hooks correctly.

This beginner-friendly guide teaches Linux system call tracking using Rust and eBPF, covering setup, eBPF project creation, and program logic, with examples of building and running the program and advancing to more complex tasks like network packet parsing.