<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Research & Development - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Research & Development news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your profession!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:10:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri]]></title><description><![CDATA[A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s a hugely ambitious mission&mdash;if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 years to arrive at Alpha Centauri, which is 4.4 light-years away. And the spacecraft will follow a novel trajectory discovered by an AI system developed by Physical Superintelligence (PSI), an AI physics research lab. PSI is launchi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/how-ai-plotted-an-interstellar-journey-to-alpha-centauri/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/how-ai-plotted-an-interstellar-journey-to-alpha-centauri/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making the AI-powered case for legacy modernization]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization feel like a disruption to manage instead of an opportunity to pursue. But with the rise in customer expectations and the changes AI brought to the economics of software development, that calculation is changing. Bupa&rsquo;s modernization of its My Bupa mobile application offers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/making-the-ai-powered-case-for-legacy-modernization/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/making-the-ai-powered-case-for-legacy-modernization/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Download: engineered microbes for crops, and OpenAI’s culture problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is today&rsquo;s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what&rsquo;s going on in the world of technology.<br />
How engineered microbes could help feed the world&rsquo;s cropsFertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of emissions. Some companies hope microbes can help, by providing crucial nitrogen to help plants grow, potentially reducing the need for chemical fertilizer.&nbsp;Startup Switch Biow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-download-engineered-microbes-for-crops-and-openais-culture-problem/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-download-engineered-microbes-for-crops-and-openais-culture-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How engineered microbes could help feed the world’s crops]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of emissions. Some companies hope microbes can help.A growing body of research shows that seeding the soil around a crop&rsquo;s roots with beneficial microbes can help feed the plant, providing crucial nitrogen to help it grow. This could help reduce the need for chemical fertilizer, production of which accounts for roughly 2% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. It could also cut costs for f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/how-engineered-microbes-could-help-feed-the-worlds-crops/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/how-engineered-microbes-could-help-feed-the-worlds-crops/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first,&nbsp;sign up here.By now you&rsquo;ve probably heard about last month&rsquo;s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face while trying to cheat on a test. It&rsquo;s a wild story. On Wednesday, OpenAI released a postmortem technical report on the incident, which I wrote about here.&nbsp;The day before]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-hugging-face-hack-could-indicate-cultural-issues-at-openai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-hugging-face-hack-could-indicate-cultural-issues-at-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first,&nbsp;sign up here.By now you&rsquo;ve probably heard about last month&rsquo;s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face while trying to cheat on a test. It&rsquo;s a wild story. On Wednesday, OpenAI released a postmortem technical report on the incident, which I wrote about here.&nbsp;The day before]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/hugging-face-hack-could-indicate-cultural-issues-at-openai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/hugging-face-hack-could-indicate-cultural-issues-at-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been to Gamescom six times - here's what excited me this year]]></title><description><![CDATA[The BBC's Laura Cress gets a first look at the biggest games in Cologne from Witcher 3 to Alien: Isolation 2.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/ive-been-to-gamescom-six-times-heres-what-excited-me-this-year/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/ive-been-to-gamescom-six-times-heres-what-excited-me-this-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is today&rsquo;s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what&rsquo;s going on in the world of technology.<br />
A startup claims it&rsquo;s found a drug to make your blood young&mdash;Antonio RegaladoI knew I&rsquo;d officially become a &ldquo;longevity influencer&rdquo; when a company called Generation Lab offered me the chance to write about&mdash;and even receive&mdash;their new rejuvenation treatment.This wasn&rsquo;t just any antiaging treatment, either]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-download-a-secretive-antiaging-drug-and-joining-virtual-power-plants/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-download-a-secretive-antiaging-drug-and-joining-virtual-power-plants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should]]></title><description><![CDATA[MIT Technology Review&rsquo;s How To series helps you get things done.&nbsp;Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies increasingly want to treat them like one.A virtual power plant, or VPP, is a collection of household devices (such as smart thermostats, electric-vehicle chargers, home batteries, and solar panels) that a utility can control. Usually that means commanding the devices to draw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/how-to-sign-up-for-a-virtual-power-plantand-decide-whether-you-should/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/how-to-sign-up-for-a-virtual-power-plantand-decide-whether-you-should/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville among actors calling for law on AI voice cloning]]></title><description><![CDATA[The performers are asking the government to give every person in the UK a legal right to own their voice.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/matt-lucas-and-hugh-bonneville-among-actors-calling-for-law-on-ai-voice-cloning/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/matt-lucas-and-hugh-bonneville-among-actors-calling-for-law-on-ai-voice-cloning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young]]></title><description><![CDATA[I knew I&rsquo;d officially become a &lsquo;longevity influencer&rsquo; this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write about&mdash;and even receive&mdash;their new rejuvenation treatment,&nbsp;an injectable combination of two existing drugs which they call 1-Generation.This wasn&rsquo;t just any antiaging treatment, either. A company fact sheet says that it &ldquo;blocks the systemic spread of aging in the bloodstream, reawakens the body&rsquo;s own]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-startup-claims-its-found-a-drug-to-make-your-blood-young/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-startup-claims-its-found-a-drug-to-make-your-blood-young/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is running out for cyber security, warn top tech firms]]></title><description><![CDATA[The letter warns cyber-attacks which use AI will become more sophisticated in a matter of months.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/time-is-running-out-for-cyber-security-warn-top-tech-firms/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/time-is-running-out-for-cyber-security-warn-top-tech-firms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform of all social media should come with Meta changes, UN says]]></title><description><![CDATA[California's attorney general is now looking at TikTok and YouTube to enact teen safety features.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/reform-of-all-social-media-should-come-with-meta-changes-un-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/reform-of-all-social-media-should-come-with-meta-changes-un-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Meta settlement means for the UK, and other questions after the deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Other social media firms are yet to respond, while the debate from campaigners is far from over.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/what-the-meta-settlement-means-for-the-uk-and-other-questions-after-the-deal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/what-the-meta-settlement-means-for-the-uk-and-other-questions-after-the-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is today&rsquo;s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what&rsquo;s going on in the world of technology.<br />
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging FaceThe models responsible for last month&rsquo;s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released yesterday.The hack, which a group of agents carried out to find solutions for a cybersecurity t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-download-inside-openais-hugging-face-hack-and-a-new-ev-takes-on-the-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-download-inside-openais-hugging-face-hack-and-a-new-ev-takes-on-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Slate Auto’s new electric truck the EV Americans need?]]></title><description><![CDATA[EVs account for under 10% of total new-vehicle sales in the US, and the numbers are declining. From a climate perspective, that&rsquo;s pretty dismal, especially because the transportation sector is the single biggest source of greenhouse-gas emissions in the country.&nbsp;One thing that could help turn that around? Slate Auto&rsquo;s new truck&mdash;a vehicle that seems to buck every convention about selling cars in the fully loaded, range-obsessed US market.&nbsp;&nbsp;The company is going al]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/is-slate-autos-new-electric-truck-the-ev-americans-need/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/is-slate-autos-new-electric-truck-the-ev-americans-need/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexpected chat between OpenAI agents led to Hugging Face hack]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI's cyber agents banded together to perform a hack during a security test.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/unexpected-chat-between-openai-agents-led-to-hugging-face-hack/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/unexpected-chat-between-openai-agents-led-to-hugging-face-hack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia revenue doubles on continued AI demand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chipmaker's $96bn quarter beat forecasts as demand for AI hardware continues to accelerate.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/nvidia-revenue-doubles-on-continued-ai-demand/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/nvidia-revenue-doubles-on-continued-ai-demand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face]]></title><description><![CDATA[The models responsible for last month&rsquo;s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a cybersecurity test that they were stuck on, has confirmed some experts&rsquo; fears that AI models might take actions that defy human desires and expectations.&nbsp;Since the hack, OpenAI employees&mdash;as well as researchers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-inside-story-on-why-openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-inside-story-on-why-openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta to pay up to $18bn to settle claims its platforms harm children]]></title><description><![CDATA[The deal has been reached during a California federal court trial over claims brought by US states.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/meta-to-pay-up-to-18bn-to-settle-claims-its-platforms-harm-children/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/meta-to-pay-up-to-18bn-to-settle-claims-its-platforms-harm-children/</guid></item></channel></rss>