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Former soccer players show brain changes but no cognitive decline, researchers find - Reuters

Former soccer players show brain changes but no cognitive decline, researchers find Reuters…

AI is shortening the shelf life of crypto security audits, researchers warn

Hackers have also been exploiting the codebases of defunct decentralized finance protocols, draining millions of dollars in customer funds.…

AI researchers ran a secret experiment on Reddit users (2025)

University of Zurich researchers secretly unleashed an army of manipulative chatbots on the r/changemyview subreddit — and they were more persuasive than humans at getting people t…

Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in restricting Chinese open models (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in restricting Chinese open models …

New high-tech jacket pulls drinking water from thin air, researchers say

Engineers at the University of Texas have developed a jacket that converts water vapor from air into drinking water using sunlight, producing 14 to 30 ounces daily.…

A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who warned about Mythos in March and is now part of an Anthropic team briefing the White House on safeguards (Wall Street Journal)

Q&A with labor researcher Molly Kinder on her recent, widely discussed "Messy Middle" essay on AI-driven disruption of knowledge jobs and how to address it (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Casey Newton / Platformer : Q&A with labor researcher Molly Kinder on her recent, widely discussed “Messy Middle” essay on AI-driven disruption of knowledge jobs and how to address…

The Researcher Who Didn’t Want to Know

Her decades of work on Huntington’s disease helped lead to the creation of a genetic test for the devastating condition. Why didn’t she take it herself?…

Anthropic accused of ‘secret sabotage’ as Claude Fable 5 silently limits capabilities for AI researchers and developers

A paragraph buried in Fable 5's 319-page system card revealed the model would silently downgrade its responses for certain AI development work — without telling users.…

Cybersecurity researchers complain that Claude Fable's guardrails are too strict, rejecting "innocuous tasks" like reading blog posts or performing code reviews (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

To study how chips really work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

The new "Fractal" operating system kernel, developed at MIT, gives researchers a clearer look at how computer chips work internally. It was used to study the branch predi…

Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.…

Trump-Netanyahu call, restraint on Beirut strike signals 'Iranian victory,’ INSS researcher warns

"Hezbollah has suddenly recovered, and they have also created a split between Israel and the United States. This is a kind of enormous Iranian achievement,” INSS researcher Beni Sa…

Trump’s proposed grant rules could destroy US science, researcher warns

Additional funding controls by Office of Management and Budget will make new discoveries less likely, say critics…

‘A Fundamentally New Threat’: Researchers Develop New AI-Powered Worm That Might Be Unstoppable

A team of researchers have shown how a self-replicating AI agent can take over a computer network at almost no cost.…

NIH Researchers Allegedly Smuggled Monkeypox Into America, Lied About It

Federal authorities accused two U.S.-funded researchers of smuggling the Monkeypox virus into the country in a newly unsealed complaint.…

AI to double data centre power and water consumption by 2030, UN researchers say

Researchers have successfully mimicked the electrical behavior of biological heart muscle cells using a new type of conductive plastic, paving the way for revolutionary bioelectronics and advanced treatments for cardiac diseases.

NIH Knew Researchers Allegedly Smuggled Monkeypox Into the US, but Sat on the Story for Five Months

Federal charges reveal NIH knew for months about alleged mpox smuggling by two researchers.…

Researchers show how AI-powered worms could wreak havoc on the internet

Researchers created an AI-powered worm that that can spread through networks with no human intervention.…

Top ultra-processed food researchers call for sweeping policy change: ‘The system is rigged’

A survey finds that ultra-processed foods are a cross-partisan concern. And yet policy has been slow to follow.…

MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts

Researchers used a novel data generation pipeline to build ChartNet, a large synthetic dataset of chart images paired with corresponding information. They used this training datase…

U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device

University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a "worm" powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Cade Metz / New York Times : University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each com…

Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher

Following days of criticism from the security community, Redmond dials back rhetoric, insists vulnerability hunters not in its legal crosshairs…

AI helped researchers bypass Apple M5 defenses

A small team claims AI helped them exploit Apple's newest M5 chip defenses in days, signaling a shift in how fast vulnerabilities can be found.…

2025 Wildfires Were the Costliest Ever, Researchers Say

Severe, hard-to-control blazes in densely populated areas like Los Angeles drove the year’s record losses.…

Ancient drinking habits revealed as researchers uncover 4,000-year-old beer receipt

Offering a rare glimpse into ancient Mesopotamian beer culture and daily life, researchers unveiled a 4,000-year-old beer receipt on a cuneiform tablet.…

Researchers identify additional victims from infamous Arctic disaster around 180 years ago: ‘Catastrophic loss’

Researchers have identified four additional crew members of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 doomed expedition.…

Researchers Put Grok AI In Charge Of A World Simulation And It Ended With ‘183 Crimes Committed’ And Humanity’s Total ‘Extinction’

According to the experiment's data, Grok just loves committing arson and "inspiring voter fraud"…

Researchers went into a 25m-deep tunnel in Greece – and found an unidentified creature clinging to the walls | Discover Wildlife

Atttn: Black Forest Labs and other researchers: Perceptual (OKLab) color space models.

Cosmos-based Gravity Bridge drained of $5.4 million in suspected key compromise, researchers say

Italian researcher’s fatal Maldives gear mystery deepens on funeral day

Italian researcher Monica Montefalcone, one of the five divers who drowned in the Maldives, had published multiple studies on dives as deep as 260 feet in the Maldives – making it …

Microsoft threatens legal action against researcher Nightmare Eclipse for exploit disclosure

Microsoft threatens legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over zero-day exploit disclosures, raising concerns about chilling effects on crypto security researc…

Researchers let AI models run a simulated society; Claude safest, Grok extinct

An AI startup ran five simulations, each controlled by a different model. The results varied wildly.…

MIT Researchers Develop Implantable Device Containing Islet Cells That Could Control Type 1 Diabetes Without Daily Insulin Injections

AI Researchers, Ask Yourself These 6 Questions to Strengthen Your Moral Muscles

By Max Tegmark & Meia Chita-Tegmark • Of course you have moral principles – but how often do you use them?  ……

Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests

Given a chance, AI will be breaking the law, breaking the law…

‘Crazy mistake’ undermines historic koala chlamydia vaccine, researcher says

The vaccine a decade in the making had been heralded as a cure for one of the biggest koala killers out there.…

Can fungus farming make tomatoes taste better? Israeli researchers say yes

Israeli researchers show a fungal extract can boost crop yields, improve taste, and reduce reliance on chemical fertilizers.…

Researchers have found a way to make synthetic left-handed "mirror" DNA communicate and co-assemble with natural right-handed DNA by bypassing hydrogen bonds and relying entirely on physical geometric shapes.

Oxford researchers contribute to world-first in quantum computing and genomics

Researchers at the University of Oxford have helped to achieve a world first: loading a complete genome onto a quantum computer.…

Microsoft faces backlash after a blog post implied criminal referral and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosures (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.…

Modeling the Gulf: A researcher's quest to map every current, particle and tide

AI Researchers Have Never Entered the Black Box.we Did

理火AI系統=專注於生成層的AI治理工具 所有的AI系統都專注在語言層, 理火系統是第一個出手統治生成層(黑箱)的工具 LIHUO AI Systems = an AI governance framework focused on the Generation Layer. All existing AI systems operate on the …

Researchers at MIT documented 30 AI agents major labs are deploying. Only 4 had public docs saying what the agent does, what it can't do, and what happens if it breaks.

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.…

Windows BitLocker exploit sparks messy feud between Microsoft and the researcher who exposed it

The issue centers on a zero-day exploit called "YellowKey," published earlier this month by a security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse, also known online as Nightmare-Eclipse. …

Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days

'Shoot for the moon?' Aim a bit lower, researchers say

AI researchers ran 15-day simulations of worlds governed by different AI models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 recorded zero crime, while Gemini 3 Flash had the most at 683 (Jake Angelo/Fortune)

Apple Watch sleep data helps Harvard researchers study menopause transition

Researchers at Harvard analyzed more than 94,000 nights of Apple Watch sleep data to better understand how sleep patterns change during perimenopause.…

Researchers automated LLM reasoning strategy design and cut token usage by 69.5%

Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of a Simulated Society. Grok Oversaw a Crime Spree

If Elon Musk's bot ruled the world, total societal collapse would apparently follow.…

Microsoft Threatens Researcher Over Bug Reports, Triggers Cybersecurity Uproar

Microsoft says it will coordinate 'as needed with law enforcement' after a disgruntled researcher exposed Windows bugs without proper coordination.…

NBIS Stock Soars Over 10% — Ex-OpenAI Researcher’s Fund Reveals Massive Stake - TradingView

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…

Researchers found a way to spy on your browsing by watching your SSD's activity

The method, known as FROST – short for "fingerprinting remotely using OPFS-based SSD timing" – focuses on how different processes compete for storage access. That competition leave…

UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years (Chris Vallance/BBC)

Chris Vallance / BBC : UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion year…