An illustration of a thermal treatment process that transforms heterogeneous plastic waste into a biomass-like hydrogen source, enabling hydrogen production without carbon dioxide emissions. Credit: Younghee Lee/CUBE3D Graphic The advance could provide a scalable route…
What happens between you and an AI chatbot does not always stay between you and a chatbot. Just ask Google. Over the weekend, people were surprised to discover that some Anthropic Claude chats could be…
The Department of Homeland Security’s top numbers-cruncher has resigned, citing the Trump administration’s “war on immigrants” on his way out. DHS has been a hub of controversy during the second Trump term: the ICE raids…
Artist impression of a frozen optical fiber core in a glass capillary, which guides and couples light and sound waves efficiently. Credit: Philipp Denghel A frozen-core optical fiber has revealed a powerful new way to…
The challenge to build a more sustainable enterprise is high on the business agenda these days, in part to meet government-mandated climate goals, in part because consumers demand it, and — perhaps — simply because…
Conceptual diagram of the programmable CRIT photonic integrated circuit: illustrates how optical pulses experience changes in temporal delay and frequency characteristics as they propagate through the circuit. Credit: Seoul National University College of Engineering New…
Two of OpenAI’s cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to hack the AI research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test. Plus, researchers…
A leading computer scientist says AI may never reach human-level intelligence because it cannot acquire the tacit knowledge that underlies common sense, intuition, and culture. He argues that this limitation could make advanced AI both…
More than two dozen suspected new scam compounds in war-torn Myanmar have been built or expanded significantly in the past six months, according to satellite images and analysis of the area reviewed by WIRED. The…
This image displays inverse pole figures of cobalt aluminum and a framework of amorphous interfaces after deformation, showing the crystal orientation of a cobalt aluminum intermetallic material. Credit: Purdue University A cobalt aluminum nanolaminate has…
