• AI May Be to Blame for Our Failure to Make Contact with Alien Civilizations

    By Michael Garrett

    Could AI be the universe’s “great filter” – a threshold so hard to overcome that it prevents most life from evolving into space-faring civilizations? The great filter hypothesis is ultimately a proposed solution to the Fermi Paradox: why, in a universe vast and ancient enough to host billions of potentially habitable planets, we have not detected any signs of alien civilizations. The hypothesis suggests there are insurmountable hurdles in the evolutionary timeline of civilizations that prevent them from developing into space-faring entities.

  • Seeing Behind the Mask

    There is a need for face recognition to be able to “see behind the mask” for security and safety. Researchers discusses the potential of new software which will allow facial recognition to work despite the mask you use.

  • Knocking Cloud Security Off Its Game

    By Daniel Meierhans

    Public cloud services employ special security technologies. Computer scientists at ETH Zurich have now discovered a gap in the latest security mechanisms used by AMD and Intel chips. This affects major cloud providers.

  • More Feelings of Misinformation, More News Avoidance

    As people have more difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction in the United States, they are more likely to feel news fatigue and avoid news altogether, according to a new study. More than an unintentional avoidance because of lack of media exposure, the researchers say people actively avoid news.

  • Beware of AI-based Deception Detection, Warns Scientific Community

    Artificial intelligence may soon help to identify lies and deception. If only it were as easy as with Pinocchio: Researchers warn against premature use.

  • What Is the CHIPS Act?

    By Michelle Kurilla

    Extraordinary U.S. government incentives are proving popular with many large chipmakers, but it is too early to tell how much of the semiconductor industry can be lured back to the United States. 

  • Why Japan Is Investing in Semiconductors Once More

    By Julian Ryall

    Japan was once the world’s leading chip manufacturer. Now, concerns over supply chains and geopolitical tensions have prompted the government to provide funding for foreign firms and domestic manufacturers.

  • How Artificial Intelligence Can Transform U.S. Energy Infrastructure

    By Michael Kooi

    Groundbreaking report provides ambitious framework for accelerating clean energy deployment while minimizing risks and costs in the face of climate change.

  • Computer Scientists Unveil Novel Attacks on Cybersecurity

    By Katie Ismael

    Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions of processors currently in use. Intel and AMD issued security alerts based on the findings.

  • Assessment of Israeli Strike on Iran near Esfahan

    By David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Victoria Cheng, Spencer Faragasso, and Mohammadreza Giveh

    The Israeli attack on the S-300 missile defense system deployed around Iran’s nuclear facility in Esfahan demonstrated the capability of Israeli stand-off weapons to target deep inside Iran, evading detection and air defenses, leaving Iran’s nuclear and military facilities more vulnerable to attack.

  • Deep Learning Model Helps in Crime Detection and Crime Hot Spot Prediction

    By David Bradley

    New research has turned to emotional data alongside machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques to develop technology that might one day help us better understand the criminal mind and perhaps even predict criminal activity so that it might be prevented.

  • This Tiny Chip Can Safeguard User Data While Enabling Efficient Computing on a Smartphone

    By Adam Zewe

    Researchers have developed a security solution for power-hungry AI models that offers protection against two common attacks.

  • 15 Things You Don’t Know About Israel’s Air Defense Systems

    By John Jeffay

    Israel has sustained attacks from enemies throughout its history and has invested heavily in high tech defense technologies that are the envy of the world’s military.

  • DeFake Tool Protects Voice Recordings from Cybercriminals

    By Shawn Ballard

    In what has become a familiar refrain when discussing AI-enabled technologies, voice cloning is enabling increasingly sophisticated scams and deepfakes. The Federal Trade Commission held a Voice Cloning Challenge to encourage the development of technologies to prevent, monitor and evaluate malicious voice cloning.

  • Spyware as Service: What the i-Soon Files Reveal About China’s Targeting of the Tibetan Diaspora

    Governments are increasingly incorporating cyber operations into the arsenal of statecraft. This sophisticated integration combines open-source intelligence, geospatial intelligence, human intelligence, and cyber espionage with artificial intelligence, allowing for the gathering and analysis of ever-expanding data sets. Increasingly, such operations are being outsourced.