Consumer & Gadgets
Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered "agentic capabilities" and turn a profit from the popular devices.
Mar 29, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Cyberattacks can snare workflows, put vulnerable client information at risk, and cost corporations and governments millions of dollars. A botnet—a network infected by malware—can be particularly catastrophic. A new Georgia ...
Apr 25, 2025
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Software
UTSA researchers recently completed one of the most comprehensive studies to date on the risks of using AI models to develop software. In a new paper, they demonstrate how a specific type of error could pose a serious threat ...
Apr 8, 2025
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Security
Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS)—the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer diagnostics, infectious disease tracking, and gene research—could become a prime target for hackers.
Apr 17, 2025
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Business
Google is secretly using its education products, including those used in many Bay Area schools, to identify students individually, track their online activity including sites they visit and links they click, and "steal" their ...
Apr 10, 2025
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Security
An unrelenting, ravenous appetite for more and more data may be artificial intelligence's fatal flaw; or at least the fastest way for "poison" to seep in.
Apr 24, 2025
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Software
Sound is a powerful source of information. By training algorithms to identify distinct sound signatures, sound can reveal what a person is doing, whether it's cooking, vacuuming or washing the dishes. And while it's valuable ...
Apr 21, 2025
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Robotics
The likelihood of two human fingerprints being identical is extremely low—about 1 in 640 billion. Even identical twins, despite sharing the same genetic information, have unique fingerprints. A new technology now allows ...
Apr 21, 2025
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Security
A new ultra-lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) model has been developed that assists in generating high-quality images without directly sending sensitive data to servers. This technological advancement paves the way ...
Apr 14, 2025
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Security
Fake news across social media is becoming ever easier to spread and more difficult to detect. That's thanks to increasingly powerful artificial intelligence (AI) and cuts to fact-checking resources by major platforms.
Apr 8, 2025
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