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 McGill-led research team has developed a bacteria-based biocomputer that can solve large, complex problems using a small fraction of the memory and resources required by standard ("solid-state") computers. Possible applications include encryption, molecular biology and artificial intelligence, the researchers said. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-biocomputer-explore-multiple-solutions-bacteria.html Computer Sciences Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:20:16 EST news712926123 Can AI fine-tuning that once took 10 hours be completed in just three hours? KAIST researchers have developed a technology that selects the most useful training data and distributes it evenly across multiple GPUs. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-roughly-triple-ai-fine-tuning.html Computer Sciences Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:40:10 EST news712855512 If you have ever used an artificial intelligence text-to-image generator like ChatGPT or Google Gemini, you may have encountered a common but maddening problem: The image looks nearly perfect, but when you ask the AI to fix one small detail, it messes up something unrelated. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-generated-images-pixel.html Computer Sciences Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:20:19 EDT news712498381 The mining industry is shifting toward battery-powered equipment to improve efficiency, but lithium-ion batteries pose risks due to their high energy density. They can fail, overheat and, in some cases, catch fire, releasing toxic emissions. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-virtual-reveals-safety-battery-powered.html Energy & Green Tech Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:20:06 EDT news712495141 As more people turn to large language models (LLMs) during personal crises, the companies behind them are engineering these AI-powered models to be more personal, empathetic and understanding when prompts indicate a user is in emotional distress. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-neural-framework-llms-empathetic.html Computer Sciences Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:40:08 EDT news712314361 A few hundred years ago, determining whether a painting was created by a master like Rembrandt or a talented copycat depended only on the trained eye of an expert. Then, new tools like X-rays and infrared imaging allowed curators to see beneath the surface of a painting and analyze details invisible to the human eye. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-rembrandt-eyes-machine.html Computer Sciences Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:20:08 EDT news712314207 A research team led by professor Minhae Kwon of the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering has developed two core next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that enable AI systems to handle complex, long-horizon tasks more effectively while reducing computational costs and improving safety. The findings address key challenges that have hindered the commercialization of costly AI assistant services as well as the deployment of AI in safety-critical areas such as robotics and autonomous driving. The findings are published on the arXiv preprint server. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-framework-thirds-tripling-success.html Computer Sciences Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:00:06 EDT news712244461 Generative artificial intelligence models are rooted in ideas of mid-20th-century engineers who thought some amount of irrationality was essential for a machine that could think like a human, contends Benjamin Lindquist, an assistant professor in the MIT History Section, who holds an MIT Schwarzman College of Computing shared position with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and is a principal investigator in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-qa-ai-messy-human-mind.html Computer Sciences Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:30:01 EDT news711976883 AI agents tend to do things when we give them specific commands, such as analyzing data and answering questions. But what would they do if left to their own devices? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-strand-ai-island-playing-games.html Computer Sciences Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:03:55 EDT news711885714 Minecraft is one of the world's most popular video games, where players explore, gather resources, craft items and try to survive in a virtual universe constructed of 3D cubes that represent different materials. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-slays-dragon-agents-conquer.html Computer Sciences Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:15:14 EDT news711713568 Digital Care Hub has launched a series of new resources to help adult social care providers plan how they will communicate with key stakeholders in the event of a cyber incident. These include people receiving care, families, staff, partner organizations and relevant public bodies. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-communications-toolkit-cyber-incidents.html Computer Sciences Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:40:04 EDT news711643022 Like a hack writer or a friend rehashing their glory days over and over, artificial intelligence tends to tell the same old story. For AI agents instructed to write fiction, that tale usually involves lighthouses and a keeper named Elias, according to new Cornell research. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-elias-lighthouse-keeper-ai-fiction.html Computer Sciences Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:01 EDT news711628220 Canada has made digital sovereignty a priority in areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and telecommunications. But one important part of its digital infrastructure has received far less attention: the operating systems running government computers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-canada-millions-microsoft-windows.html Computer Sciences Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:00:24 EDT news711277045 Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT and other conversational agents, are now widely used to source information, summarize texts and generate content for specific purposes. These models essentially generate their responses by predicting sequences of words based on the patterns they learned during previous training. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-llms-human-standard.html Computer Sciences Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:00:06 EDT news711199801 Researchers from the VUB's Artificial Intelligence Lab and the University of Namur (UNamur) demonstrate in a new large-scale study how autonomous AI systems can spontaneously develop a functional, shared language without human intervention. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-agents-artificial-natural-language.html Computer Sciences Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:40:12 EDT news711272281 Artificial intelligence can do remarkable things, but how much does it actually understand about the world? Researchers have found that surprisingly specific information can be extracted from the inner workings of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Using mathematical tools to probe a model's internal activity, they can identify where a city is located on a map, when a historical figure lived or what emotion a character feels, even detecting descriptions of pain. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-space-pain.html Computer Sciences Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:13 EDT news711196861 It's no secret that an ever-increasing number of scientists use AI to help with their papers. While tasks such as polishing text are generally permissible if declared, using the technology to write papers, or parts of papers, from scratch and passing them off as original work is not. But it's happening. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-detector-ai-generated-ideas-words.html Computer Sciences Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:23:30 EDT news711112923 Inside the human brain, billions of individual neurons connect to form a vast network capable of rapidly processing information and electrical signals. A team of researchers and engineers at Penn State is taking inspiration from these natural computers to build soft networks of water-based droplets, connected by membranes like those found in the walls of living cells. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-tiny-droplets-soft-networks-brain.html Electronics & Semiconductors Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:20:20 EDT news711104512 When humans write sentences or solve math problems, they are thinking symbolically—each number, variable or word is expressed by a symbol. While AI chatbots do not "think" that way, if prompted, they can offer cogent advice about writing, math and many other topics as if a person were offering it. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-neural-network-ai-chatbots-humans.html Computer Sciences Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:40:08 EDT news710763542 Before large language models (LLMs) can process text, they split it into chunks such as words or word fragments. The LLM behind ChatGPT, for example, splits "LMU München" into the three chunks "LM," "U" and "München," so it never directly sees the individual letters in "München." This step, which is known as subword tokenization, makes LLMs efficient but causes a range of problems, such as limited character-level understanding. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-easier-ai-letter.html Computer Sciences Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:20:12 EDT news710759462 When new information is continually added and old information is removed, an AI system may fail to find the correct material even when that material exists. KAIST researchers have developed a vector database technology that preserves the search paths leading to the needed information as data changes. This allows AI to find up-to-date information more accurately and quickly. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-index-ai-accuracy-added-deleted.html Computer Sciences Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:40:01 EDT news710503801 Ask an AI chatbot for some medical advice and it might recommend you head to the hospital when all you really have is indigestion. One of the biggest issues with AI chatbots today is that they can still share false information, according to Northeastern experts. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-scientists-detector-ai-chatbots.html Computer Sciences Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:20:01 EDT news710496781 Interactions between humans and dogs involve a continuous exchange of physical and verbal cues. A person may pet a dog, use a hand gesture, give a verbal command or call the pet from a distance, prompting changes in the dog's posture, position or movement. Understanding these human–animal interactions requires data that captures both participants simultaneously. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-interpet4d-capturing-humandog-interactions-generate.html Computer Sciences Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:20:23 EDT news710150942 In the production of video games and animated movies, directors and animators are constantly fine-tuning how a character's movements should appear. In many cases, directors require subtle changes, such as making a character appear a little more restrained or a bit more expressive, and communicate subjectively how much change is needed. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-ai-animation-slider-enables-fine.html Computer Sciences Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:09 EDT news709992961 A new AI system that excels at challenging games with hidden information could someday help human decision-makers select strategies to outfox opponents in complicated situations like military maneuvers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-ai-defeats-war-game-rivals.html Computer Sciences Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:00:39 EDT news709901162 Before a new AI model reaches the public, its developers run it through a battery of tests known as "benchmarks," which score it on everything from reasoning ability to how safe it is for people to use. Billions of investment dollars ride on these benchmark scores, and policymakers increasingly cite them to shape regulations and government procurement decisions that will guide the development of AI. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-grade-ai-wrong.html Computer Sciences Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:20:14 EDT news709977001 Researchers at the Institute of Information Security at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) have uncovered security risks in the file notification systems of the widely used operating systems Windows, Linux, Android and macOS. Through side-channel attacks, attackers can track system-wide changes to files, keystrokes and visited websites, and spoof password prompts to intercept entries. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-notification-windows-linux-android-macos.html Computer Sciences Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:01 EDT news709811307 A computer-based method for evaluating and improving print advertisements by modeling how human binocular vision responds to images is discussed in the International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-binocular-vision-ads-automatically.html Business Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:20:09 EDT news709561021 Artificial intelligence models can give users the wrong answer and do so with great confidence. They can also hedge and warn that they are unsure—even when they get the answer right. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-ai-trustworthy-red-flag.html Computer Sciences Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:20:06 EDT news709463281 A research team at the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), led by professor Ruibang Luo of the School of Computing and Data Science and professor Can Li of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has developed Gungnir, a blockchain-inspired DNA data storage codec. The framework improves digital information recovery from severely damaged DNA sequences, potentially extending the practical lifespan of DNA data archives from less than a decade to centuries. The paper is published in the journal Nature Communications. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-blockchain-dna-storage-codec-recovers.html Computer Sciences Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:40:01 EDT news709395061