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Reading a conversation and deciding whether a chatbot wrote it can be surprisingly difficult. In a study involving more than 72,000 judgments of human and AI responses, participants frequently mistook machine-generated captions, ...
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The famous "Turing test" of computer science comes from a 1950 paper written by the British computer scientist (and war hero) Alan Turing. There are many variants, but perhaps the most common involves a human asking questions ...
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Nearly a third of adults in the U.S. do not get enough sleep. A recent surge in attention to this issue raises serious concerns about its long-term health implications, and new research suggests that it can lead to hazardous ...
Nov 9, 2026
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Researchers have demonstrated a new password authentication technique for use in virtual reality (VR) settings, which allows users to choose directions rather than numbers. The approach supports the same number of possible ...
Nov 9, 2026
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Researchers have demonstrated three new techniques to prevent so-called "backdoor attacks," which induce malicious or undesirable behavior in AI models. The researchers have also proposed a concept that would repurpose backdoor ...
Nov 6, 2026
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Governments use them to track phones. Criminals drive them through city streets and send texts that look like they came from your bank. For 20 years, researchers have been building tools to catch these fake cell towers. They ...
Nov 3, 2026
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Thousands of deceptive advertisements have slipped through Google's advertising safeguards, exposing internet users to fake virus warnings, misleading software promises and potentially dangerous downloads, according to new ...
Oct 30, 2026
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Curtin University researchers may have found a new way to help police trace 3D-printed firearms, after developing a new method of analyzing the plastic used to make them. Homemade plastic weapons present a growing challenge ...
Oct 29, 2026
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In Lewis Carroll's "Alice Through the Looking Glass," the eponymous heroine encounters the Red Queen, who involves her in a frantic race. In this curious country, Alice learns, you have to run as fast as you possibly can ...
Oct 26, 2026
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Deleting a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant may not erase everything the assistant remembers. Georgia Tech researchers have developed a tool that can recover deleted conversations from AI assistants ...
Oct 26, 2026
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