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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
What to make of Nintendo’s mention of new “Switch 2 Edition games”
We'd expect Nintendo's "Switch 2 Edition" games will be broadly similar to the systems set up by Sony and Microsoft in recent ...
Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Gemini
Despite the power of prompt injections, attackers face a fundamental challenge in using them: The inner workings of so-called ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rocket Report: Stoke is stoked; sovereignty is the buzzword in Europe
A German startup named Isar Aerospace will try to launch its first rocket Saturday, aiming to become the first in a wave of ...
NASA to put Starliner’s thrusters through an extensive workout before next launch
Starliner returned autonomously in early September. Since then, NASA and Boeing have been reviewing data from the test flight ...
Trump annoyed the Smithsonian isn’t promoting discredited racial ideas
But in the process of airing the administration's grievances, the document specifically calls out a Smithsonian display for ...