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DiScoFormer is a single transformer model that estimates both the density and score of a distribution from a set of data points in one forward pass without retraining, overcoming the trade-off between generalizability and accuracy of previous methods.
Meta hired contractors through Covalen to pose as teenagers and send high-risk prompts (suicide, sex, drugs) to rival chatbots including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI, as part of a safety benchmarking project called Cannes. Over 45,000 prompts were used in August 2025 alone, with the targeted companies unaware of the testing.
Treating AI agents as coworkers rather than tools reduces error detection by 18% and shifts responsibility, according to a study by Boston University professor Emma Wiles. The article warns against over-personifying AI, citing risks in healthcare, warfare, and government.
A new study using climate models shows that ozone depletion could have been detected decades earlier than it was, as early as 1957 in the upper stratosphere over the tropics, highlighting the potential for earlier intervention.
Sony plans to remove 551 previously purchased StudioCanal movies from UK PlayStation customers' libraries due to licensing agreements, highlighting the lack of true ownership of digital content.
The Supreme Court ruled that police need a warrant to access cellphone location data, even for short periods, reaffirming a reasonable expectation of privacy in digital location records.
US solar power surpassed coal generation for the first time in April 2026, though a significant portion of solar comes from rooftop installations that do not go through the grid.
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs from multiple European countries were exposed on public URLs with no authentication, accessible to anyone for months. The breach, discovered by security researcher Sammy Azdoufal, occurred due to poor security practices by companies managing age verification for cannabis clubs.
Advocacy for dark sky lighting to reduce light pollution, improve safety, health, and protect wildlife.
Deep Reinforce releases Ornith-1.0, a family of open-source self-improving LLMs for agentic coding, spanning 9B to 397B parameters and achieving state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks like SWE-Bench Verified and Terminal-Bench 2.1, surpassing Claude Opus 4.7 and other leading open-source models.
Kb is a local-first, hyper-relational knowledge base built in Prolog with content-addressable storage, time-travel versioning, and a Raylib-based GUI, developed as a Master's thesis prototype.
The author shares a concrete example of using Claude AI to debug a parsing regression in hyperscript, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of AI-assisted development and cautioning against over-reliance.
This paper presents a reverse-engineered account of Apple Neural Engine (ANE) architecture, programming, and performance across A11-A18 and M1-M5 chips, based on direct measurements and static analysis.
Google's Gemini app now offers personalized AI image generation for free to all US users, allowing images based on user preferences from Google account data.
South Korea's government and top tech companies commit $1 trillion to boost memory chip production, build AI data centers, and accelerate commercial humanoid robots by 2028.
OutYet.ai is a tool that tracks upcoming AI model releases from major labs, providing status updates, release estimates, and alerts. It crowdsources release guesses and verifies access before marking models as available.
Scientists have found molecular-level evidence for two distinct structures in liquid water, advancing understanding of water's properties.
The article critiques Apple's forced uniform squircle icon shape in macOS 26 Tahoe, citing loss of usability and creativity, and welcomes improvements in macOS 27 Golden Gate while urging Apple to restore distinct icon shapes.
Leaked photos and parts lists for the iPhone 18 Pro have surfaced on the dark web following a data breach at Apple supplier Tata Electronics, exposing component details and board schematics.
The Human-Centered Computing Foundation is campaigning to secure a new .self top-level domain dedicated to ethical, human-centered technology, aiming to support self-hosting and reclaim digital autonomy.