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The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters : The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fi…
A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
Mike Masnick / Techdirt : A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and di…
Researchers detail "context bombing", where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates b…
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.…
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.…
‘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…
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
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…
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.…
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.…
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.…
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.…
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…
These Ebola Researchers Are Stuck in US Due to Trump’s Funding Cuts
The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were launched during the Covid-19 pandemic. The group lost its funding under Trump in part due to conspiracy theories.…
Happy, who taught researchers that elephants can recognize themselves, is euthanized
Happy, a Bronx Zoo elephant who gave researchers new insight into the animal's behavior and became the crux of a closely watched animal rights case, has been euthanized at age 55.…
Researchers push back fundamental limit on energy transfer between particles without 'spilling' radiation
Are the chemicals around you safe? Researchers are using AI to find out
Q&A: How researchers are building next-gen quantum computers
Researchers link specific microbiomes to archaeological bone degradation
Researchers urge greater protections against online sexual abuse of children
Former Google and Apple researchers launch Trajectory to enhance AI feedback loops
Former Google DeepMind and Apple researchers launch an AI startup targeting $50M in seed funding, focused on visual reasoning and continuous learning systems.…
Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop
Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.…
Researchers say Google AI Mode changes recommendations based on your emails — and it risks creating a giant confirmation-bias machine
Google’s AI search may be secretly shaping answers using your private data…