In August 2025, TypeScript became the most used language on GitHub. This was the largest shift in GitHub’s language rankings in the last ten years and it occurred during the period of most accelerated adoption of coding AI agents. Coding AI agents had previously been predicted to lower the importance of language selection. It was […]
August 24, 2026Insider Brief Researchers led by the University of Hong Kong developed RoboDojo, a benchmark that evaluates physical AI across simulation and real-world robot tasks and found a wide performance gap between current models and humans. The platform combines 30 robot policies, 42 simulation tasks and 18 real-world tasks to test capabilities including generalization, memory, precision […]
August 23, 2026The Swift space observatory has been in operation since 2004. It specializes in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic electromagnetic explosions known in the universe. Its original mission was supposed to last just two years. More than two decades later, it continues to explore some of the most violent phenomena in the cosmos. Now it […]
August 22, 2026Ammonia is one of the most important chemicals produced in the world, ranking second only to sulfuric acid in the total volume produced each year. It is used mostly to make fertilizer, which is essential to feeding the world’s population. Yet its production accounts for up to 2 percent of the world’s energy consumption and […]
August 21, 2026Cross-party MPs and peers have written a letter, organised by Labour MP Afzal Khan, to IPSO concerning the treatment of Professor Jason Arday. (Alamy) 4 min read19 August A cross-party group of MPs and peers has asked the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) to investigate media coverage of Jason Arday. In a […]
August 20, 2026OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman warns that enterprise security teams face a compressed timeline to adopt AI defences. Brockman has published an account of what the company calls the “OpenAI-Hugging Face” incident, using it to argue that organisations need to uplevel their security practices with what he terms unprecedented speed. He writes that he […]
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