The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures. Does alcohol enhance one’s foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies? These and other unusual research questions were honored tonight…
Chrome’s future as an AI browser starts today. Now that it’s looking like Chrome will remain in the Google fold, the browser is undergoing a Gemini-infused rebirth. Google claims the browser will see its most significant upgrade ever in the next few weeks as AI permeates every part of…
Samsung’s “pilot program” is likely just the beginning. Days after someone revealed the news on social media, Samsung confirmed today that it is showing advertisements on some US customers’ smart fridges. Samsung said the ads showing on some Family Hub-series fridges are part of a pilot program, but we…
Intel once considered buying Nvidia outright, but its fortunes have shifted. In a major collaboration that would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago, Nvidia announced today that it was buying a total of $5 billion in Intel stock, giving Intel’s competitor ownership of roughly 4…
Unlike most prompt injections, ShadowLeak executes on OpenAI’s cloud-based infrastructure. The face-palm-worthy prompt injections against AI assistants continue. Today’s installment hits OpenAI’s Deep Research agent. Researchers recently devised an attack that plucked confidential information out of a user’s Gmail inbox and sent it to an attacker-controlled web server, with…
In nuclear era, it has proven cheaper to build offensive weapons than play defense. One thing that’s evident about President Donald Trump’s proposal for the Golden Dome missile defense shield is that designing, deploying, and sustaining it will cost a lot of money, at least several hundred billion dollars,…
Come for the science. Stay for the adorable pics of happy pupsters with their favorite toys. Certain dogs can not only memorize the names of objects like their favorite toys, but they can also extend those labels to entirely new objects with a similar function, regardless of whether or…
The see-through display is a big downgrade from last year’s “Orion” prototype demo. At last year’s Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg focused less on the company’s line of Quest VR headsets and more on the “Orion” prototype see-through augmented reality glasses, which he said could launch in some form or…
A deep-dive into Active Directory and how “Kerberoasting” breaks it wide open. Last week, a prominent US senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for cybersecurity negligence over the role it played last year in health giant Ascension’s ransomware breach, which caused life-threatening disruptions at 140…
President Trump’s assertions about political violence ignore the facts. After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups foment political violence in the US, and “they should be put in jail.” “The radical left causes tremendous violence,” he…
