https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/computer-sciences-news/ en-us The latest news on computer science, computer science technology, computer science technologies and technology science. A study led by researchers from IMDEA Networks and Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) has carried out the first large-scale analysis of the volatility, content and actual infrastructure of hidden websites on the so-called dark web. This work was among the recipients of the 2025–2026 Spanish Police Foundation Research Awards, which recognize scientific research that contributes to ensuring public safety and protecting citizens' rights and freedoms. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-dark-web-survey-reveals-tor.html Internet Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:20:06 EDT news701946073 When a standard large language model (LLM) is confronted with a problem, it tries to solve it by matching it to similar information it has seen before, and then give an answer based on those past patterns. But how it decides which information to use and what value it gives to different pieces of information can be somewhat inscrutable from the outside. An EPFL team has created a new large language model that is structured similarly to a human brain, allowing users more control and moving away from "black box" AI. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-ways-peer-black.html Computer Sciences Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:20:03 EDT news701694481 Students in the University of Washington's Prosocial Computing Group noticed a trend on social media: People were using generative artificial intelligence to make short science videos. The trouble was that these people weren't scientists, which, given AI's proclivity to be convincingly wrong, could accelerate the spread of misinformation. So the lab wondered how to enable scientists and other researchers to better adapt to platforms like TikTok. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-papertok-ai-users-papers-short.html Computer Sciences Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:04:01 EDT news701683424 In a first for Australian law enforcement, police in Western Australia have deployed live facial recognition technology in marked vans at locations around Perth. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-western-australia-police-scanning-law.html Computer Sciences Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:20:01 EDT news701609036 In 2022, global production of construction materials accounted for more than 7% of total carbon emissions. But how many of those materials were truly necessary to build houses, buildings and bridges? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-smarter-optimization-bridge-materials.html Engineering Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:40:04 EDT news701522909 Giving AI a human-like memory limitation may actually help it learn language better. In their new proof-of-principle study, Abishek Thamma (University of Amsterdam) and Micha Heilbron (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) show that small language models equipped with a transient memory learn grammar more efficiently when trained on child-scale amounts of language input. The findings demonstrate how insights from psycholinguistics can inspire new approaches to AI learning. The findings are published in the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-secret-ai-language.html Computer Sciences Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:40:18 EDT news701440006 The obvious problem with biometrics is that once someone has stolen your fingerprint or iris ID, you cannot simply reset those to block their access as you might a password. Now, research published in the International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics offers a new approach to protecting biometric authentication data so that the risk associated with this kind of irreversible identity theft can be largely avoided and gives users an option to reset their fingerprints and other biometrics, as it were. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-revocable-fingerprint-ids-permanent-biometric.html Computer Sciences Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:40:07 EDT news701353133 One of the greatest weaknesses of AI agents that read and understand vast amounts of enterprise data is "hallucination"—the generation of plausible-sounding but factually incorrect information. KAIST researchers have developed a next-generation database technology capable of understanding documents, data and relationships among entities all at once. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-generation-database-ai-hallucinations-accuracy.html Computer Sciences Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:03 EDT news701088061 More than 1.5 billion people worldwide are expected to watch the 2026 World Cup finals. With that many fans scrutinizing every pass, touch and goal, FIFA is leaning on advanced computer vision technology to help referees make faster, more accurate calls on the way to crowning this year's victors. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-world-cup-referees.html Computer Sciences Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:40:02 EDT news701020381 Clarkson University researchers have developed a new mathematical tool that could make artificial intelligence systems more accurate, controllable and useful across applications ranging from image editing to drug discovery. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-math-tool-sharpen-image.html Computer Sciences Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:40:07 EDT news701019001 Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial intelligence, according to a researcher at Missouri S&T. "With the way AI algorithms are currently structured, they sometimes settle on an answer that seems good enough and stop searching before finding one that may be much better," says Dr. Donald Wunsch, director of Missouri S&T's Kummer Institute Center for AI and Autonomous Systems. "It's important that we find ways to help these algorithms keep searching instead of stopping too soon. When AI is used in areas that affect people's health, safety or cost of living, the difference between good enough and great can have significant implications." https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-combining-lessons-ants-birds-ai.html Computer Sciences Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:20:04 EDT news700985822 In his 1927 paper, "A law of comparative judgment," the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people select one option among multiple alternatives, they are picking the one that has the highest value to them, even though they cannot assign a particular number to that choice. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-people-options-sharpen-ai.html Computer Sciences Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:40:01 EDT news700413438 A single photograph contains a wealth of information, but determining 3D spatial relationships from a 2D scene is no simple task. Many attempts have been made to develop a method to reconstruct both depth and sharp color images from a single snapshot, but many struggle to deliver accurate and reliable output. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-snapshot-3d-depth-coded-aperture.html Computer Sciences Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:00:08 EDT news700402173 Researchers in Japan have developed quantum multi-programming auto mode, a function that automatically runs quantum programs from different users in parallel. Launched on the Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB) quantum computer cloud service at the University of Osaka, the system reduces idle qubit resources, improves throughput and may help ease congestion in quantum cloud computing. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-world-cloud-full-quantum-capacity.html Computer Sciences Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:20:03 EDT news700395243 How do software developers respond when they come across code they do not intuitively understand? Neuropsychologists have now explored this question by recording brain activity alongside eye movements. A team of psycholinguists then compared the findings with established patterns from natural language processing and identified some surprising parallels. The interdisciplinary team from Saarland University and Chemnitz University of Technology has now published its study in Scientific Reports. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-code-brain-eye-tracking-reveal.html Software Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:20:47 EDT news700315981 Research published in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology has taken inspiration from the hunting behavior of the fish-eating bird of prey, the osprey, and combined this with inspiration from quantum computing to improve machine translation, particularly for long sentences and technical texts between Chinese and English. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-osprey-algorithm-chinese-english-accuracy.html Computer Sciences Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:00:02 EDT news700314835 Workshopping, an iterative process in which creators share ideas, test what works and refine what doesn't through collective feedback, is at the heart of any writers group. This collaborative dynamic inspired George Mason University Ph.D. student Shiwei Hong to explore whether artificial intelligence (AI) could benefit from a similar approach. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-comedians-workshop-reshape-machines.html Computer Sciences Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:20:03 EDT news700311121 Two years ago, researchers at MIT proposed a provocative idea: As AI models become more powerful, they begin to see the world in the same way. But not everyone was convinced, and now EPFL scientists have shown that the picture is more nuanced. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-worldview-convergence-weakens-high.html Computer Sciences Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:40:08 EDT news700143655 Artificial intelligence (AI)-generated images have become increasingly more sophisticated than early ones that showed humans with more than five fingers on a hand, making it even harder to determine whether photos are authentic. Now, a team of computer scientists in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a model that can detect fake images by learning which are real. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-grounded-reality-ai-fake-images.html Computer Sciences Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:00:06 EDT news699883022 Giving AI a classic psychological test reveals an inherent weakness in LLM decision-making abilities. Suketu Patel and colleagues explored how transformer-based machine attention differs from human attention by testing AI models on the "Stroop task," in which words for colors are printed in colored ink, and participants are asked to name the ink color of each word while ignoring its meaning. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-classic-attention-longer-word.html Computer Sciences Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:06 EDT news699878522 Large language models (LLMs), which are the artificial intelligence (AI) systems behind modern chatbots, translation tools, and virtual assistants, have become revolutionary tools worldwide. Companies, governments, schools, and developers now rely on them to serve users across dozens of languages. Unfortunately, as these systems grow more capable and incorporate support for more and more languages, they also become more computationally demanding. Generating responses from large multilingual models not only costs more but also takes significantly more time. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-llms-faster-efficient-multiple-languages.html Computer Sciences Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:20:03 EDT news699795928 Some people have a gift for creating beautiful works of art. Others appreciate art but do not have the talent to create it. Researchers at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science have created an artificial intelligence framework, ShadowDraw, that can create "shadow art"—partial line drawings that are completed by the shadow cast from an object—by simply scanning the object. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-framework-generates-shadow-art-scan.html Consumer & Gadgets Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:00:02 EDT news699796443 To accelerate and refine decision-making in a fast-paced, global marketplace, enterprises may deploy generative artificial intelligence models to help summarize and interpret the charts that often fill market summaries and financial reports. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-chartnet-ai-boosting-smaller-commercial.html Computer Sciences Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:40:05 EDT news699710461 A Japan–U.S. collaborative research team has demonstrated the world's first integrated spintronic probabilistic bit, or p-bit, fabricated on a silicon chip using semiconductor manufacturing processes. The team, consisting of researchers from Tohoku University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, experimentally verified the operation of the p-bit, a key building block for probabilistic, or p-, computers. The achievement provides a pathway toward large-scale spintronic p-computers for applications such as AI and machine learning. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-world-spintronic-p-bit-silicon.html Electronics & Semiconductors Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:40:03 EDT news699614503 Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that's what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum mechanics, the set of rules governing how physics operates at atomic and sub-atomic scales. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-quantum-expose-digital-secrets.html Computer Sciences Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:40:01 EDT news699540232 New research by Brown University computer scientists may be a key step in bringing volumetric video—video that can be viewed from virtually any perspective in a 3D scene—to computers and smart televisions. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-scientists-path-stream-3d-volumetric.html Computer Sciences Sat, 30 May 2026 09:00:01 EDT news699204074 New research from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, has significant implications for understanding both human language development and the behavior of large-scale artificial intelligence language models. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-childlike-ai-uncovers-language-generations.html Computer Sciences Wed, 27 May 2026 14:40:05 EDT news699111121 When people watch a scene in the film "Jurassic Park" where a giant dinosaur walks toward them, they naturally imagine a heavy, rumbling sound, as if the ground were shaking. This is because humans predict sound by considering not only the shape of an object, but also physical properties such as its size, weight, and speed of movement. However, existing video-to-audio generation AI mainly generates sound based on the category of objects or scene information in the video, and has not sufficiently reflected physical properties that vary depending on weight or speed. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-physics-aware-ai-generates-realistic.html Computer Sciences Wed, 27 May 2026 09:40:03 EDT news699091982 In a study published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, researchers from Kyushu University have found that "flaky tests," which are unstable software tests that seem to randomly pass or fail, do not stay confined to the projects they originate in and often spread across entire ecosystems. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-unstable-software-ripple-openstack-days.html Software Tue, 26 May 2026 08:00:04 EDT news698921041 In a bustling restaurant kitchen, efficiency requires more than just machines that wash dishes or chop vegetables. It requires a conductor to ensure the appetizer, main course, and dessert are prepared in the right sequence, that the right chef gets the right order, and that the correct dish reaches the right table on time. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-github-workflows-software.html Software Mon, 25 May 2026 10:40:01 EDT news698924222