Chrome adds new layered defenses to block prompt injections, restrict origin access, and prevent unsafe AI actions.

Hardware-accelerated machine learning handheld featuring an Infineon NNLite NPU

What is the Dandelion network protocol? What is the analogy with a dandelion plant?

The state’s new system could turn bureaucracy into automation, and consent into a checkbox no one really controls.

Petco said the exposure was due to an error in an application and that it is notifying victims whose data was affected.

In this paper, we present a novel framework for electrophysiological interference (EI) as a means of modulating neural activity in deep brain regions. The motor and cerebellar cortices were targeted at subthreshold current levels by transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) at 100 Hz and 110 Hz respectively. The goal was to induce an interference pattern within a subcortical region of the brain, the motor thalamus (Mthal), which receives convergent projections from these cortical regions. The proposed EI method fundamentally contrasts with the previously proposed temporal interference (TI) in that the interference takes place between the synaptic inputs to the target cell rather than by summation of the electrical fields (e-fields) at the overlapping regions inside the brain. We demonstrate, in anesthetized rats, that the cortical projections from the motor and the cerebellar areas can entrain the spiking activity of the Mthal neurons both individually and synergistically. The interference pattern is predominantly a linear superposition of the two inputs, and modulation at the difference frequency (10 Hz) was much less than that at individual input frequencies. The results also demonstrate multi-synaptic entrainment of Mthal neurons by cerebellar tACS. EI has a potential to entrain neural activity in deep brain regions using non-invasive AC stimulation and it has the advantage over TI of not exposing the superficial layers of the brain to extreme electric fields.Clinical Relevance—Transsynaptic AC stimulation may find clinical applications for entrainment of spiking activity in deep brain regions while keeping the stimulation currents within safety limits at the cortical level.

Flock Safety, a U.S. surveillance firm, was exposed for outsourcing AI training to low-paid gig workers in the Philippines, who annotate footage from American streets. The data leak highlights privacy risks, ethical concerns over exploitation, and calls for better regulation in the AI industry. This underscores tensions between technological advancement and individual rights.

TornadoVM 2.0 is out today as the newest feature release for this OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that allows Java programs to run on heterogeneous hardware

Researchers successfully demonstrate a complete layer of a photonic spiking neural network, achieving over 80% accuracy on image recognition tasks and bridging the gap between the potential of optical computing and practical neural network applications through a custom-designed chip and streamlined network architecture.

People did, in fact, try to trade anything,

The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to grant a petition filed by Recentive Analytics, Inc.

We describe and analyze LOBE (Ladder Operator Block-Encoding), a framework for block-encoding ladder operators that act upon fermionic and bosonic modes. In this framework, we achieve efficient...

Arduino channels Xzibit, and Raspberry Pi reminds us why we love computers.

Poetiq hit 54% on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark — surpassing Google’s Gemini 3 Deep Think

A tribute to the weird and twisted history of Santa Claus slashers and other Saint Nick horror movies

Harvard's Avi Loeb suggests 3I/ATLAS is alien tech due to its anomalous jets. Shockingly, a 300 BC Chinese star map may have already classified its bizarre shape.

The record bust comes as states and the federal government continue to intensify law enforcement operations against drug smuggling.

This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we revisit three stories about smart devices that want to collect more data than people may know.

MIT researchers developed an aerial microrobot that can fly with speed and agility comparable to real insects. The research opens the door to future bug-sized robots that could aid in search-and-rescue missions.

RoboCop has found a permanent home in Detroit — all 11 feet and 3,500 pounds of him

Treating patients without harming the environment: that's the goal of the nation’s first all-electric acute care hospital opening next week in California.

Researchers have built a fully implantable device that sends light-based messages directly to the brain. Mice learned to interpret these artificial patterns as meaningful signals, even without touch, sight, or sound. The system uses up to 64 micro-LEDs to create complex neural patterns that resemble natural sensory activity. It could pave the way for next-generation prosthetics and new therapies.