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At trade association TechUK’s ninth annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials, industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, ...

A new malware implant called EtherRAT, deployed in a recent React2Shell attack, runs five separate Linux persistence ...

Some efforts to slash energy costs focus on using renewable sources, or on slimming down the AI models themselves. But ...

Recent Notepad++ releases address a vulnerability that has allowed threat actors to hijack the free source code editor’s ...

Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was ...

Pure-plays like IonQ, Rigetti Computing, and D-Wave Quantum remain the most popular opportunities in quantum computing at the ...

Quantum computing represents a major threat to encryption, and the inflection point may be less than five years away.

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Gemini were originally designed to work with text only. Today, they have ...

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

The online information landscape, driven in large part by social media, rewards engagement and is curated by classification ...

As AI platforms go mainstream, power bills from their usage are exploding, so researchers are racing to build hardware that would use less energy.