Borys Drozhak has a vision: a frontline almost free of humans, patrolled by flying drones and ground robots, and continuously monitored by AI-controlled sensor networks. And it’s not a pipe dream. Ukrainian roboticists have made major strides in that direction over the past four years. Remotely controlled ground vehicles fitted with machine guns and grenade…
Does the EU decision now create additional pressure to act? Bloch: I don’t think that this will immediately increase the pressure. There’s still some time left until Extended Maintenance begins at the end of 2027. That said, companies now face an additional strategic task: they must assess which new opportunities they want to take advantage…
Supply-chain security firm Socket has published research findings describing a Go module that posed as a DNS and subdomain scanner while acting as a first-stage Windows malware loader. The firm then traced it to a network of 222 GitHub repositories across 190 accounts. The module published its first version on January 24 this year and…
Researchers have built a pull request that steals a repository’s secrets by hiding the malicious instruction inside a PNG that AI code reviewers never open. The reviewer waves the change through. Later, a coding agent reads the picture, opens the repo’s .env, and writes every key into the source as a harmless-looking list of numbers….
Another horrendously hot Saturday, another wedding to go to. I am all in favour of love, but could we please reschedule it to a cooler day in the year? Mercifully this one’s a London wedding and it can be reached and returned from on the tube. Though travelling on a hot carriage and not arriving…
Bellevue startup Auger has raised $50 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $150 million. Founded by former Amazon executive Dave Clark and his wife, Leigh Anne Clark, the company uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make faster supply-chain decisions. Clark was quoted as saying in a recent GeekWire article that while…
Circle received approval from the OCC on July 10 to establish a bank called Circle National Trust. That does not give the USDC issuer the powers most people associate with a commercial bank. The national trust bank cannot accept ordinary deposits, make loans, offer checking or savings accounts, or provide FDIC-insured retail banking services. The…
Economy Tokyo also looks to send more young scholars overseas Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Council for Science, Technology and Innovation meeting July 10. © Kyodo TOKYO — Japan will award larger research fellowship grants as part of a government target set Friday to produce 20,000 Ph.D degree holders yearly by fiscal 2030.
You might think a honey bee foraging in your garden and a browser window running ChatGPT have nothing in common. But recent scientific research has been seriously considering the possibility that either, or both, might be conscious. There are many different ways of studying consciousness. One of the most common is to measure how an…
For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference, Google announced a sweeping redesign of…