Archive: June 2024

Surveyed wards and households map in Lusaka District. Credit: Sustainable Cities and Society (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2025.106799 When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, aid organizations worldwide struggled to identify vulnerable households quickly and fairly. Many people who needed help were left behind. Woojin Jung, an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Social Work, said she has found a better strategy. Her team has developed a method that blends so

You might expect a book titled Robot Futures and written by a robotics researcher to be a whiz-bang prophecy of technologies that are the best thing since sliced bread. Soon we’ll be living to 200 while traveling from vacation to vacation in our flying cars. All the while, robots handle all the parts of our jobs that we hated anyway, right? Maybe, but this book isn’t the place to find it. There’s plenty of speculation in it (I mean, we are talking about th

Published on June 22, 2026 at 17:03 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Android (montage by 01net) The FSFE submitted a request to the European Commission to prohibit the automatic downloading of AI components on Android without user consent. The organization also calls for ending mandatory identity verification for all Android developers in order to preserve interoperability and free software. On June 15, the FSFE, a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending free sof

Published on June 23, 2026 at 08:44 Comment 6 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s AI deemed too powerful to be made public, has just exposed a 29-year-old security flaw. This vulnerability allowed an attacker to steal the credentials or passwords of other users sharing the same network. Present since 1997, it went unnoticed by human audits and traditional security tools. Claude Mythos, the most powerful version of Anthropic’s AI, continues to ac

Hasta la vista, baby Microsoft terminates its Tay AI chatbot after she turns into a Nazi Setting her neural net processor to read-write was a terrible mistake. Ars Staff – Mar 24, 2016 10:28 am | 181 Credit: Microsoft Credit: Microsoft Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Microsoft has been forced to dunk Tay, its millennial-mimicking chatbot, into a vat

A lawyer representing Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen filed a court brief that cited three cases that do not exist, according to a federal judge. The incident is similar to a recent one in which lawyers submitted fake citations originally provided by ChatGPT, but it hasn’t yet been confirmed whether Cohen’s lawyer also used an AI tool. “On November 29, 2023, David M. Schwartz, counsel of record for Defendant Michael Cohen, filed a motion for e

Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII art. It turns out that chat-based large language models such as GPT-4 get so distracted trying to process these representations that they forget to enforce rules blocking harmful responses, such as those providing instructions for building bombs. ASCII art became popular in the 1970s, when the limitations of computers and printers prevented them fr

Below are five of the strongest AI security solutions in 2026.Check Point – AI-driven securityCheck Point integrates AI security into its broader Infinity platform, covering network, cloud, endpoint, and AI usage in a unified architecture.The core of the platform is ThreatCloud AI, which leverages more than 50 AI engines and intelligence from over 150,000 connected networks. Compromise indicators propagate across the platform within seconds, enabling coord

Color-coded map illustrating where computers took over factory-floor work; the darkest red areas represent the regions with the most intensive automation. Credit: Case Western Reserve University In the early 1970s, a quiet revolution began in American factories. Lathes, drill presses and milling machines—once guided by the steady hands of skilled machinists—started thinking for themselves. Computer numerical control (CNC) technology, as it was called, tran

This requires retraining. Workers who used to walk the perimeter now have to read SAP dashboards, manage automated tickets, and work with the robots. They have to trust the sensors, and management has to make sure operators know they can take manual control if something unexpected happens.Companies need to take the rollout slowly. Because syncing physical robots with enterprise software is complicated, large-scale rollouts should start as small, targeted p

All about ChatGPT see more All about Artificial Intelligence see more U.S. political candidates are trying to influence what chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini say about them. Documents obtained by Reuters reveal strategies to get these tools to recommend certain names to voters.The initiative relies on publishing content online and monitoring AI responses, which are increasingly being consulted by voters seeking information about candidates and p

huskirl via X Don’t ask an AI chatbot how many letter e’s there are in the word “seventeen.” Or do, actually, if you want to see how dodgy the tech remains. In a clip that’s gone viral in AI circles, the content creator who goes by “Husk” asks ChatGPT’s Voice mode to answer this simple counting question. Not only does the confident-sounding AI get it wrong — insisting there’re only three e’s instead of four — it doubles down so vehemently that it effective

Setaria viridis, a grass species similar to corn and sorghum, engineered to produce a natural purple pigment, anthocyanin, for use as a visual reporter on the presence of chemicals in the environment. Wild-type Setaria viridis is on the left (green plants) and the engineered plants are on the right (purple plants). Credit: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center A collaborative team of researchers from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University

Claude Code is leaking sensitive information on public GitHub instances thanks to a partial oversight in the way its settings files are handled. That’s the finding of AI security researchers at Apiiro, who discovered thousands of secrets, including database passwords, API tokens, and root logins, amid Claude Code settings files embedded in GitHub repositories. The leak stems from the way Claude Code handles user approval for automated shell commands. When

@kinamocchi_tech(Kinamocchi’s Tech Deep Dive🐹🐦)Even “Signed” Doesn’t Mean Safe? | Why AI Assistant Configuration Files Can Be MisusedAIClaudeCodeVOICEVOXTech explanationKinamocchi0Posted at 2026-11-10 📺 This article explains the video from the YouTube channel Kinamocchi’s Tech Deep Dive. ▶️ Watch the video here → Even “Signed” Doesn’t Mean Safe? | Why AI Assistant Configuration Files Can Be Misused 🐹🦜 The two characters appearing in this article 🐹 Mocchii

Hakuhodo DY Holdings announced on June 29 that it had established a new company, “Ads for Humanity,” in April to exclude AI and bots and deliver advertisements exclusively to humans, and had begun selling a new advertising product, “Human-Verified Ad,” through the new company. It leverages “World ID,” a human-verification technology co-invented by Sam Altman and others. “World ID” is an ID that enables users to prove that they are “a real human being” with

On November 20–21, the 2026 Singularity Intelligence Technology Conference will be held at the Beijing Wanda Renaissance Hotel. Agentic Scaling, RSI, AI4AI, Self-Evolving, Harness, Physical AI… Over the past year, new models, frameworks, and methodologies have arrived in waves. Many concepts that were unfamiliar just a few months ago have quickly become frequent topics of discussion across the industry. AI is moving from “more powerful models” toward “more