Wednesday, July 29, 2026
ArchiveDocument-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
A researcher built a Word document that infects other Word documents through Copilot, spreading instructions from file to file without user action. Enterprise AI just got its first real worm.
Amazonian earthwork survey indicates ancient population was much larger than thought
Lasers pierced the Amazon canopy and found 20,000 ancient earthworks — evidence that up to 3 million people once lived in an area smaller than Montana. We had the scale of pre-Columbian civilization wrong.
Alzheimer's Third Lesion Named: Mitochondrial Plaques Explain Why Anti-Amyloid Drugs Fall Short
For decades, Alzheimer's drugs targeted amyloid plaques and barely worked. A Nature Neuroscience study just found a third type of lesion — mitochondrial plaques — with almost no overlap. That missing piece may explain everything.
A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
Police matched a username to the wrong person because they missed one underscore. He spent 18 months in prison. The forensic failure is so specific it reads like fiction — but it exposes how brittle digital evidence really is.
The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He’s Human
Shen Anyu's voice was cloned without consent and sold cheap. Now he has to prove his own recordings aren't AI-generated. An identity crisis that's arriving for all of us, told through one man in China.