Does 'federated unlearning' in AI improve data privacy, or create a new cybersecurity risk?
As the capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) increases at an exponential rate, so do concerns about the privacy of user data.
Apr 13, 2026
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Quantum computers are coming to break our codes faster than anyone expected
Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world's supercomputers, working together ...
Apr 13, 2026
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Fake QR codes make for easy scams—be careful what you scan out there
It's a simple thing we encounter many times every single week—often while in a hurry. You pull up at a parking spot, scan a QR code and pay within seconds. Or you sit down at a cafe, scan a code to view the menu and order ...
Apr 9, 2026
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New software safeguards research participants' privacy
Which details in a de-identified scientific record are enough to still identify a person? If, for example, the record includes that a person is a CEO, the abundance of CEOs in the world would make identification nearly impossible. ...
Apr 7, 2026
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Hardware
Memristor chip combines security and compute-in-memory for edge devices
A cross-institutional research team has developed Co-Located Authentication and Processing (CLAP), a privacy-preserving system that overcomes the trade-off between security and performance in edge computing devices. The study, ...
Apr 6, 2026
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AI blueprints can be stolen with a single small antenna
From smartphone facial recognition to autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI) has long been protected as a black box. However, a joint research team from KAIST and international institutions has uncovered a new ...
Apr 1, 2026
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AI systems lack a fundamental property of human cognition: Understanding this gap may matter for safety
When a person reaches across a table to pass the salt, their brain is doing something far more complex than recognizing a request and executing a movement. It is drawing on a lifetime of bodily experience—where their hand ...
Apr 1, 2026
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North Korea hackers suspected of attack on widely used software tool
Hackers linked to North Korea are suspected of an ambitious attack on an inconspicuous but widely used software package, Google analysts and other cybersecurity experts said Wednesday.
Apr 1, 2026
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Who is using differential privacy? A new registry aims to make it visible
When Apple discovers trending popular emojis, or when Google reports traffic at a busy restaurant, they're analyzing large datasets made up of individual people. Those people's personal information is systematically protected ...
Mar 31, 2026
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Vibrations in your skull may be your next password
A team led by Rutgers University researchers has developed a security system that could change how people log in to virtual and augmented reality platforms by eliminating passwords, personal identification numbers and eye ...
Mar 31, 2026
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