When Alder Lake was announced last year, Microsoft and Intel touted the special Windows 11 optimization…
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Machine learning reveals hidden components of X-ray pulses
Ultrafast pulses from X-ray lasers reveal how atoms move at timescales of a femtosecond. That’s a…
FauxPilot: Like GitHub Copilot without Microsoft telemetry
And if you train your own AI model for it, you can worry less about licensing.…
An AI Just Independently Discovered Alternate Physics
Grab any physics textbook and you’ll find formula after formula describing how things wobble, fly, swerve…
AI tackles the challenge of materials structure prediction
Researchers have designed a machine learning method that can predict the structure of new materials with…
Predicting Earthquakes Two Days Earlier
Israeli researchers turned to the skies to predict earthquakes two days earlier, with 80 percent accuracy.…
Study draws new link between dopamine-based reward learning and machine learning
Past neuroscience and psychology research has repeatedly demonstrated the crucial role of rewards in how humans…
Node.js prototype pollution is bad for app environment
Boffins find common code constructs that may be exploitable to achieve remote code execution Read more…
Hackers scan for vulnerabilities within 15 minutes of disclosure
System administrators have even less time to patch disclosed security vulnerabilities than previously thought, as a…
Luca Stealer malware spreads after code appears on GitHub
Cool, another Rust project … Oh wait… Read more…
Experts Uncover New ‘CosmicStrand’ UEFI Firmware Rootkit Used by Chinese Hackers
Researchers have discovered a new UEFI firmware rootkit malware, dubbed “CosmicStrand,” that Chinese hackers have been…
MegaPortraits: High-Res Deepfakes Created From a Single Photo
Researchers from Samsung Labs have developed a way to create high-resolution avatars, or deepfakes, from a…
Pinball Fantastic: ESP32 Runs DOS Emulator, Hits Jackpot
it’s running an X86 emulator powerful enough to set Digital Illusions’ 1992 DOS classic Pinball Fantasies…
Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter
Advisory had already warned hardcoded password was “trivial to obtain.” Read more at Ars Technica…
New Linux Malware Framework Lets Attackers Install Rootkit on Targeted Systems
Researchers uncover “Lightning Framework,” a new Swiss Army Knife-like Linux malware that has modular plugins and…
Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?
That may bode ill for nuclear deterrence and the peace of the world. Read more at…
AI system creates realistic images and art from a textual description
“An astronaut riding a horse as pencil drawing”. This and many more images can be easily…
This adorable 1-inch HDMI monitor doesn’t need a power supply
As small as an HDMI monitor gets. Read more at Ars Technica…
C isn’t a programming language anymore
‘It has completely distorted the way we speak to each other,’ Read more…
Pruning for Deep Neural Networks — Techniques to Prune Image and Language Models
In this blog post, we will go over two techniques for pruning deep neural networks. One…