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computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-10-18 09:20:52

An Interview with Dr. Jiebo Luo – 2025 2025 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award Recipient Dr. Jiebo Luo, the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, is a visionary in computer vision, machine learning, and computational social science whose groundbreaking work has spanned over 600 publications, 90 patents, and numerous prestigious awards across academia and industry. Your research spans computer vision, natura

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Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

news.ycombinator.com Bourzac 2025-10-15 13:34:36

University students might soon have something other than black-light posters to brighten their dorm rooms. Researchers have created glow-in-the-dark plants by injecting succulents with materials similar to those that make the posters light up. The fleshy plants shine as brightly as a night light, and can be made to do so in a wide variety of colours — a first for glowing houseplants, according to the team. Glow way! Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time The researchers, led b

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ChatGPT speak is creeping into our everyday language - here's why it matters

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-20 03:00:36

ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways ChatGPT is influencing human speech patterns, research suggests. An uptick in specific words, contexts supports the claims. After shaping word choices, AI could shape word definitions. Delve, intricate, surpass. Perhaps you've been hearing and seeing these words more often -- ChatGPT may be to blame. People are adopting language from the chatbot's lexicon, according to Florida State University researchers. T

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Stressed Ice Generates Electricity, Researchers Find

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-20 11:50:33

Don’t mess with ice. When it’s stressed, ice can get seriously sparky. Scientists have discovered that ordinary ice—the same substance found in iced coffee or the frosty sprinkle on mountaintops—is imbued with remarkable electromechanical properties. Ice is flexoelectric, so when it’s bent, stretched, or twisted, it can generate electricity, according to a Nature Physics paper published August 27. What’s more, ice’s peculiar electric properties appear to change with temperature, leading researc

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The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the U.S.

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-20 19:20:41

A dangerous, sometimes deadly, infection spread by kissing bugs is regularly spreading within America. In a recent paper, researchers are claiming that Chagas disease is endemic to parts of the southern U.S. and is probably here to stay. Scientists in Florida, Texas, and California made the case in a paper published last month in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Citing evidence from infected humans, animals, and kissing bugs, they argue that Chagas has established a persistent presence

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Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-10-26 10:46:07

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Nous Research, a secretive artificial intelligence startup that has emerged as a leading voice in the open-source AI movement, quietly released Hermes 4 on Monday, a family of large language models that the company claims can match the performance of leading proprietary systems while offering unprecedented user control and minimal content r

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Spiders Hijack Fireflies to Create Devious Glowing Death Traps

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-26 19:25:48

Fireflies glow to attract mates. As new research shows, however, a certain species of spider has learned to take advantage of this luminous natural phenomenon. In a Journal of Animal Ecology paper published August 27, ecologists report that the sheetweb spider (Psechrus clavis) appears to exploit firefly luminescence to attract more prey. Observational analysis and lab experiments revealed that, by using firefly light as bait, the nocturnal predators improved their hunting success. This is the

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3 smart ways business leaders can build successful AI strategies - before it's too late

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-10-27 15:45:13

Serg Myshkovsky/Photodisc via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Business leaders should create a platform to test AI concepts. Encourage employees to take risks with AI, but proceed with care. Keep one eye on the market for new technologies that might be exploited. Making the most of AI is tough. MIT recently revealed that 95% of enterprises attempting to harness generative AI aren't seeing measurable results in revenue or growth. However, w

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Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decades

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-27 18:00:10

Don’t believe everything you read—especially when it’s part of a marketing pitch designed to sell security services. The latest example of the runaway hype that can come from such pitches is research published today by SquareX, a startup selling services for securing browsers and other client-side applications. It claims, without basis, to have found a “major passkey vulnerability” that undermines the lofty security promises made by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and thousands of other companies tha

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Computing’s Top 30: Mohamed Shehata

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-27 23:00:24

Among AI’s great promises in relation to medicine is its potential to use existing patient data—including MRIs—to identify and diagnose potential problems. Doing so has many potential benefits, including lower costs and fewer invasive patient procedures. Among the researchers making good on this promising AI potential is Mohamed Shehata. Shehata is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Louisville. He’s won numerous awards for his work using machine lear

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China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-10-28 11:00:00

In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups are developing. Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, read and decode neural activity to translate it into commands. Because they provide a direct link between the brain and an external device, such as a computer or robotic arm, BCIs have tremendous potential as assistive devices for people with severe

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Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

news.ycombinator.com Kathleen Haughney 2025-10-28 23:27:13

“This research focuses on a central issue in the discourse surrounding AI and language: are these language changes happening because we’re using a tool and repeating what it suggested or is language changing because AI is influencing the human language system?” said assistant professor of computational linguistics and principal investigator Tom Juzek. “By analyzing lexical trends before and after ChatGPT was released in 2022, we found a convergence between human word choices and LLM-associated p

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Computing’s Top 30: Theofanis Raptis

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-30 02:00:54

Transitioning between two different cultures and professional roles—from working at a university in Greece to joining the National Research Council of Italy—presented Theofanis Raptis with several valuable lessons, including an understanding of what he calls an intellectual “fermentation” process. Triggered by internationalization, bilateral cooperation, and cross-discipline collaborations, this fermentation included the dynamic exchange and blending of ideas across disciplines and cultures, le

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The Oura Ring is the Department of Defense's not-so-secret weapon

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-30 07:00:25

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura is opening a facility in Texas to serve the Department of Defense. This facility will open next year. Oura Rings will continue to be used in several research studies that enhance soldier performance. Wearables were once confined to fitness trackers that counted steps. Today, the devices are crucial research tools for the Department of Defense. Smart ring maker Oura is opening a manufacturin

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Alphabet's Verily closes its medical device division and lays off staff

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-30 11:00:09

Alphabet's Verily was one of the company's star "moonshot" businesses, with its research delving into areas ranging from connected diabetes therapies to robot surgery. Now, Verily has shuttered its medical device division and laid off staff, the company announced in a memo seen by Business Insider. The number of employees who lost their jobs was not revealed. "We have made the difficult decision to discontinue manufacturing medical devices and will no longer be supporting them going forward," a

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AI Is Crushing the Early Career Job Market, Stanford Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-30 20:47:25

If you suspected that AI is taking jobs away from young workers, there is now data to back this up. Three economists at Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab —professor Erik Brynjolfsson, research scientist Ruyu Chen, and postdoctoral fellow Bharat Chandar— published a paper on Tuesday that found early-career workers aged 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed jobs “have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment.” “In contrast, employment for workers in less exposed fields and more

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‘Bubbles’ turn air into drinkable water

technologyreview.com Jennifer Chu 2025-10-31 02:00:00

COURTESY OF THE RESEARCHERS In the researchers’ prototype device, a half-square-meter panel of the hydrogel is enclosed in a glass chamber coated with a cooling polymer film. When the vapor captured by the textured material evaporates, the bubbles shrink down in an origami-like transformation. The vapor then condenses on the glass, where it can flow out through a tube. The system runs entirely on its own, unlike other designs that require batteries, solar panels, or electricity from the grid.

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A Tiny Diamond Defect Could Be Blocking Fusion Breakthroughs

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-01 10:56:25

Every part of a fusion reactor is designed for maximum efficiency. Well, in theory, at least. In reality, the materials chosen to bring us closer to fusion don’t always perform as expected, leading to structural glitches that obstruct fusion reactions. Diamond capsules used to safely store hydrogen fuel are no exception, but a new study offers some guidance for researchers hoping to preemptively address these material shortcomings. In a recent Matter paper, material scientists describe how the

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Apple study shows LLMs also benefit from the oldest productivity trick in the book

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-02 11:53:37

In a new study co-authored by Apple researchers, an open-source large language model (LLM) saw big performance improvements after being told to check its own work by using one simple productivity trick. Here are the details. A bit of context After an LLM is trained, its quality is usually refined further through a post-training step known as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). With RLHF, every time a model gives an answer, human labelers can either give it a thumbs up, which re

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New AI attack hides data-theft prompts in downscaled images

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-02 11:34:57

Researchers have developed a novel attack that steals user data by injecting malicious prompts in images processed by AI systems before delivering them to a large language model. The method relies on full-resolution images that carry instructions invisible to the human eye but become apparent when the image quality is lowered through resampling algorithms. Developed by Trail of Bits researchers Kikimora Morozova and Suha Sabi Hussain, the attack builds upon a theory presented in a 2020 USENIX

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In a First, a Human Breathed Using an Implanted Pig Lung

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-03 02:40:28

The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung into a living human body. Researchers in China reported the medical feat in a study published Monday in Nature Medicine. The gene-edited left lung survived for nine days inside a person declared to be brain dead. More work has to be done to ensure the long-term viability of these organs, the researche

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Astronomers Revisit the Mysterious Wow! Signal—and Find a Big Surprise

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-03 06:30:00

Nearly 50 years ago, astronomers searching the cosmos for evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life detected a strong radio signal emanating from deep space. Today, scientists still aren’t sure where—or what—the Wow! Signal came from. It remains one of the most perplexing phenomena in the history of radio astronomy. A new study has brought scientists closer than ever to solving that mystery. Researchers from the Arecibo Wow! (AWOW) project at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico recently

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RFK Jr. Cancels Promising Work on Cancer Vaccine

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 09:15:26

Image by Michael M. Santiago via Getty / Futurism Breakthroughs About 10 weeks before his assassination in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy — better known as Bobby, and the father of our current health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — delivered a rousing address at Vanderbilt University that came to be known as one of his greatest speeches. Quoting his presidential uncle John, who had himself been assassinated less than five years prior, Kennedy told those Vanderbilt students that they were the peop

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Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 00:00:19

Many media executives are betting the future of the industry on artificial intelligence, going as far as replacing journalists in an effort to keep costs down and cash in on the hype. The result of these efforts so far has left a lot to be desired. We've come across countless examples of publications inadvertently publishing garbled AI slop, infuriating readers and journalists alike. AI's persistent hallucinations are already infecting large swathes of our online lives, from Google's hilarious

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LASIK Without Lasers? Scientists May Have Found a Way

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-04 06:00:39

What if you could fix your damaged eye without having to shoot a laser at it? Scientists have potentially discovered a novel method of repairing the cornea, similar to LASIK, that wouldn’t require a laser or other invasive surgical tool. Researchers at Occidental College and the University of California, Irvine, created the technique, which aims to temporarily make the cornea malleable. In experiments with rabbit eyeballs, their method appeared to work while also leaving corneal cells alive. Mo

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Apple accuses Android brand of trade secret theft in wearable tech showdown

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-05 02:50:22

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Apple is suing OPPO, accusing the company of stealing Apple Watch trade secrets through a former employee. Engineer Chen Shi allegedly downloaded 63 confidential files and shared research details with OPPO before leaving Apple. Apple claims OPPO encouraged Shi’s actions to gain an unfair advantage in wearable tech development. Corporate espionage is more common than many of us realize, but two tech giants are at the center of a particularly dramatic e

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Europol confirms $50,000 Qilin ransomware reward is fake

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-08 16:25:25

Europol has confirmed that a Telegram channel impersonating the agency and offering a $50,000 reward for information on two Qilin ransomware administrators is fake. The impostor later admitted it was created to troll researchers and journalists. "We were also surprised to see this story gaining traction," Europol told BleepingComputer on Monday. "The announcement didn't come from us." The statement comes after a new Telegram channel called @europolcti was created on August 16th, claiming to of

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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

news.ycombinator.com James Titcomb 2025-11-09 22:04:08

Stock market volatility was largely prompted by a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which claimed that 95pc of companies were getting “zero return” on their AI investments. A Meta spokesman sought to downplay the freeze, saying: “All that’s happening here is some basic organisational planning: creating a solid structure for our new superintelligence efforts after bringing people on board and undertaking yearly budgeting and planning exercises.” It comes after the company h

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Stone Age People Brutalized Their Prisoners of War, New Evidence Suggests

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-11 08:00:20

When we think of Stone Age people, most imagine small communities living in caves, cutting into their most recent hunt with primitive tools, and imitating their environment with illustrative rock art. People during the Neolithic, however—the last stage of the Stone Age (around 9000 to 3300 BCE)—also waged wars and absolutely demolished their enemies. In a study published today in the journal Science Advances, researchers present horrific evidence suggesting that Neolithic people in northeastern

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Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-11 21:11:13

Just a few months into Meta's multi-billion-dollar AI moonshot, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is already shaking up his "Superintelligence Lab" — and some of its longtime leaders are leaving amid the chaos. As the New York Times reports based on insider sources, Meta has announced internally that it will be splitting its AI division into four separate groups: one focused on research, one on so-called "superintelligence," one on products, and another on infrastructure. First leaked in part to The Informa

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Latest Tech News

Curiosity Drives Broad Innovation and Real-world Solutions

Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

ChatGPT speak is creeping into our everyday language - here's why it matters

Stressed Ice Generates Electricity, Researchers Find

The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the U.S.

Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions

Spiders Hijack Fireflies to Create Devious Glowing Death Traps

3 smart ways business leaders can build successful AI strategies - before it's too late

Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decades

Computing’s Top 30: Mohamed Shehata

China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

Computing’s Top 30: Theofanis Raptis

The Oura Ring is the Department of Defense's not-so-secret weapon

Alphabet's Verily closes its medical device division and lays off staff

AI Is Crushing the Early Career Job Market, Stanford Study Finds

‘Bubbles’ turn air into drinkable water

A Tiny Diamond Defect Could Be Blocking Fusion Breakthroughs

Apple study shows LLMs also benefit from the oldest productivity trick in the book

New AI attack hides data-theft prompts in downscaled images

In a First, a Human Breathed Using an Implanted Pig Lung

Astronomers Revisit the Mysterious Wow! Signal—and Find a Big Surprise

RFK Jr. Cancels Promising Work on Cancer Vaccine

Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

LASIK Without Lasers? Scientists May Have Found a Way

Apple accuses Android brand of trade secret theft in wearable tech showdown

Europol confirms $50,000 Qilin ransomware reward is fake

Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

Stone Age People Brutalized Their Prisoners of War, New Evidence Suggests

Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos

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