Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
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The Gentle Prick: Sea Slug-Inspired Stretchable Microneedles Revolutionize Biomedical Sensors
Stretchable microneedle electrode arrays. Credit: Zhao Research Group Highly stretchable and customizable microneedles that revolutionize the interface between human bodies and invasive monitoring devices have been developed through <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip=" USC <span class="st">Founded…
The companies racing to build frontier AI are now racing to govern it
This could involve requiring every new model to ship with the “equivalent of a safety and security datasheet” outlining, in detail, the model’s capabilities, known failure modes, and testing history. Extending existing change management processes…
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal in the first widely known incident of an AI agent hacking a government website. The Australian government is…
AI spend will jump 49.5% in 2026, says Gartner
Instead of buying just a laptop, companies now buy a laptop with AI chips in it, while enterprise software now has AI embedded in it. And instead of doing a project about business strategy, they…
Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant, Muse, claiming it is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” A zero-day…
Review: M5 Ultra Mac Studio: Pure, unadulterated power
Headless, no hanging I know a lot of you will end up wanting to run some kind of headless setup using this Mac. You’ll have it working furiously as your domestic or business AI server,…
How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact
If the tech industry sought to create a method of seducing users into sending their deepest, most sensitive secrets to a server in a faraway data center, it would be hard-pressed to create a better…
A New Tool Found Malware That’s Guided by an AI Hive Mind—No Humans in Sight
For years, cybersecurity practitioners have tracked different types of malware and detected potential infections using digital fingerprints to identify different hacking tools and follow their use over time. As attackers are increasingly incorporating agentic AI…
Computer Scientist Pushes a 1996 Algorithm Beyond Its Longstanding Limit
A multiscale sampling strategy pushes a classic network-distance guarantee into territory previous algorithms struggled to reach. Credit: Shutterstock A new algorithm solves a blind spot that has challenged computer scientists since 1996, improving distance estimates…