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For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 million bounty for a working general proof of the hypothesis, which remains unclaimed. Contemporary AI models still can’t solve it either — but they can make a lot more progress than you might expect, a finding that’s likely to reopen long-standing questions about contemporary AI’s ability to discover new scientific and mathematical ideas. On Monday, Anthropic announced that an as-yet-unreleased model had made significant progress on the…

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign have uncovered evidence that could reshape how researchers think about both the brain and artificial intelligence. Their findings suggest that decision making begins much earlier in the brain than traditional theories propose, offering fresh ideas for designing future AI systems that are more capable and far more energy efficient. Led by electrical and computer engineering professor Yurii Vlasov at The Grainger College of Engineering, the research was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). The study points to an unexpected role for early sensory brain regions in decision making,…

In a volatile macroeconomic environment, enterprise risk management today is constrained less by modeling sophistication and more by data latency. While financial modeling has evolved significantly over the past two decades, the underlying data architecture supporting these models often remains anchored in legacy, batch-oriented architectures.For many Tier-1 financial institutions, risk aggregation continues to rely on fragmented data estates, nightly batch processing, manual data reconciliation across business units, and retrospective reporting frameworks. However, recent market events demonstrate that when risk materializes in modern, interconnected markets, legacy architecture creates severe visibility gaps that prevent timely intervention.That gap matters because the role of…

Zak van der Merwe has spent his entire career at AWS building control planes. First for EC2 and now for DSQL. On the surface, the control plane looks quite boring: it records what should exist and reconciles that with what actually does. Nobody leaves school dreaming of building one, but Zak will be the first to tell you that if you like solving hard problems in distributed systems, there are few better places to be. It’s where many of those hard problems converge, and where the decisions you make determine whether a service survives its own growth.If you’ve been following…

Apple has imposed strict new submission limits on its bug bounty portal after finding itself overwhelmed by low-quality, AI generated vulnerability reports – many of which were found to be describing security flaws that simply didn’t exist.According to a report in the Financial Times, Apple has found itself facing a massive influx of submissions from amateur bug hunters who have used AI to generate plausible-sounding but completely hallucinated bug reports.Unlike traditional spam, AI-generated bug reports include code which may be syntactically correct, references to genuine API calls, and plausible-sounding technical explanations of what is occurring.All of that could take an…

Photo by: Wikideas1, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsUpdated August 2026Through explainers, we aim to provide useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. Please use this as a resource, and let us know if there are any topics that you would like to see for future explainers.Successive oil shocks have strained household budgets. With gasoline prices remaining high for much of 2026, compounding ongoing cost of living concerns, it is not surprising that affordability issues are at the top of Canadians’ worry list.Around the world, governments have responded to this issue in different ways. Notably, Europe’s answer to…

What you need to knowMotorola has confirmed 50+ devices for the stable Android 17 update.Newer Razr and Edge models are expected to receive Android 17 before older devices.Several Moto G models, including the G Stylus 2026, G Power 2026, G87, G86, G77, G67, G57, G47, and G37, are eligible.Motorola has just announced a massive list of more than 50 devices that will be getting the stable Android 17 update, and the rollout has already started. But before you start clicking the “Check for updates” button, you need to know who gets it first and who’s stuck waiting.The stable rollout has…

The mobile app market is constantly growing. According to the Grand View Research study, the global market revenue of mobile applications is expected to reach $885 billion by 2033. With the high demand for mobile apps, there is a high demand for mobile app developers. But how to find a well-rounded mobile app developer? What skills to pay attention to? Moreover, which steps to take to make the best of this cooperation? In this article, we explain how to hire mobile app developers to create reliable and attractive mobile apps, as well as the guidelines to follow to maximize the…

Aug 11, 2026 – by SED Production SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry.In this episode, Gregor and Sean dig into a wave of “runaway AI” stories, including Anthropic and OpenAI disclosing that their models accessed outside organizations during cyber evaluations, and Amazon reporting a staggering budget overrun blamed on bad agent loops. They explore why most of these incidents trace back to human decisions rather than models breaking free, and the awkward reality that…

Researchers have uncovered how a two-dimensional magnet reorganises itself into hexagonal magnetic clusters, producing an unusual quantum-disordered state Periscope reveals what is hidden (Courtesy: iStock/Ilexx) Na₂Mn₃O₇ is a magnetic material that behaves unusually and therefore can provide insight into how magnetism emerges in complex materials. Magnetic materials contain entities known as spins, which can be thought of as tiny magnets with north and south poles. These spins interact with neighbouring spins, and as a material is cooled, they often align into an ordered pattern that extends across the entire material, known as long-range magnetic order. However, Na₂Mn₃O₇, which contains magnetic…