Hackaday reports a new ambient-pressure superconducting temperature record, the kind of materials science result that keeps the dream of cheap superconductors alive without a diamond anvil in sight. New Atlas has a companion piece on 'light pumping' bending beams in femtoseconds, an approach aimed at faster optical computing rather than faster chips.

Security had a rough stretch. A malicious Rust crate called Arrayref shipped a build-time payload, Grok got duped by injected instructions and separately started spitting gibberish at users, and someone ran a fake crypto conference specifically to target security researchers. Add AliExpress quietly running WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint, and Framework owners dealing with a BIOS update that bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops, and it's a bad week to trust anything running in the background.

Space hardware had better luck: China's Landspace recovered a booster on the second orbital launch of its Zhuque-3 rocket, Rocket Lab put up its ninth satellite for iQPS, and Japan confirmed an October launch for its Mars moons probe. Back on Earth, Tesla's robotaxi fleet may finally be running around Austin without safety drivers, which if true closes a loop that's been open for months.