FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
Under any circumstances, a migration of this size and scale would be a massive undertaking, experts tell WIRED, but the expedited deadline runs the risk of obstructing payments to the more than 65 ...
The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
ProPublica shared the new CDC statement about personal choice and risk with Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center ...
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Ex-FCC chairs from both parties say CBS news distortion investigation is bogus
CBS probe "unprecedented," say chairs who served under George H.W. Bush and Obama.
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New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in even more mandatory
"Bypassnro" is an easy MS Account workaround for Home and Pro Windows editions.
Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.
Now, new research from Anthropic is exposing at least some of the inner neural network "circuitry" that helps an LLM decide ...
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Google discontinues Nest Protect smoke alarm and Nest x Yale lock
Google continues backing away from smart home hardware.
Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data
Unlike standard RGB images with their three channels, these files store information across numerous channels, each ...
Topic: multispectrum images
New Spectral JPEG XL compression reduces file sizes, making spectral imaging more practical. New Spectral JPEG XL compression ...
Report: US scientists lost $3 billion in NIH grants since Trump took office
Since Trump took office on January 20, research funding from the National Institutes of Health has plummeted by more than $3 ...
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New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in even more mandatory
Microsoft released a new Windows Insider build of Windows 11 to its experimental Dev Channel today, with a fairly extensive batch of new features and tweaks. But the most important one for ...