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Bad Vibes: AI-Generated Code is Vulnerable, Researchers Warn
Vibe coding programmers are releasing batches of vulnerable code, according to researchers. The programming style relies on using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create software code using tools like Claude, Gemini, and GitHub Copilot.
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What the Claude Mythos Release Illustrates About Policy and Innovation
A principles-based, narrowly targeted, light-touch approach to regulation is better suited to emerging technologies. This provides for a more flexible, less prescriptive response to the rapidly changing environments common in nascent industries.
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National Security Agency Names CSUF a Center in Cyber Defense Education
The National Security Agency has designated Cal State Fullerton as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense education to prepare and train qualified cybersecurity professionals.
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AI Has Crossed a Threshold – What Claude Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity
The limit of what artificial intelligence can achieve, known as frontier AI, has crossed another threshold. AI can now plan and execute sophisticated cyber operations with minimal guidance at speeds far beyond human capability.
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China Surpasses U.S. in Research Spending – the Consequences Extend Far Beyond Scientific Ranking and Clout
The Trump administration has presided over a dramatic disinvestment in U.S. scientific research. A hollowed-out research base may cause the U.S. not only to fall behind, but also to progressively lose its ability to benefit from science. China’s rapid rise in science thus arrives at a moment when the U.S., under this administration, appears no longer interested in maintaining U.S. scientific leadership.
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New Chip Can Protect Wireless Biomedical Devices from Quantum Attacks
Ultra-efficient chip design enables extremely strong cryptography algorithms to run on energy-constrained edge devices.
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Golden Dome's $185 Billion Price Tag Faces Uncertain Funding
The general leading President Donald Trump’s ambitious Golden Dome missile shield said a key part of the program, with uncertain costs, could be scrapped in favor of lower-cost options as lawmakers turn their focus to the president’s proposed $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget for 2027.
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U.S. Government Ramps Up Mass Surveillance with Help of AI Tech, Data Brokers – and Your Apps and Devices
To understand the issues, it is critical to know how these technologies function, who collects what data about you, how that data can be used against you, and why the laws you might think are protecting your data do not apply or are ignored.
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Could Deep Sea Mining Break China's Grip on Critical Minerals?
Mining companies have proposed to use remote-controlled robots or seabed crawlers tethered to surface ships to bring up nodules. The International Seabed Authority has wrestled for more than two decades with how to regulate seabed mining. The Trump administration has promised no such delay. It plans to use an existing U.S. regulatory framework.
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Electrochemical Process Enables Recovery of Valuable Raw Materials
Lithium, cobalt and nickel are in high demand – and they are hard to obtain. Researchers are developing an electrochemical process to recover scarce raw materials in battery recycling. This new technology could also enable the extraction of rare earth elements from electronic waste in the future.
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The Skylines of the Future Will Be Made of Wood
Laminated timber is more environmentally friendly than steel, and perfectly safe for constructing tall buildings.
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War at the Speed of Light: The Emerging Role of Directed-Energy Weapons
For decades, notions of laser weapons have been the stuff of science fiction. Now they are becoming military reality, as directed-energy weapons, including high-energy lasers and high-power microwave weapons, open new approaches to counter swarms of cheap drones.
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How the Trump administration’s climate math doesn’t add up
There’s an old argument that protecting the environment hurts the economy. It’s wrong for a lot of reasons.
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DOME, World’s First Nuclear Reactor Test Bed, Ready for Privately Developed Advanced Reactors
The Idaho National Laboratory’s Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) is a first-of-its-kind microreactor test bed that will enable rapid development, testing and demonstration of privately developed advanced nuclear reactors.
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting the End of the World
Jem Bendell predicted that society would collapse because of climate change. Then he tried to get on with his life.
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The long view
Robots Just Captured a Russian Position in Ukraine—but Don’t Worry About Real-Life Terminators Just Yet
Military ground robotics are rapidly transforming battlefield tasks. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky recently announced that ground robots (also known as unmanned ground vehicles) had captured a Russian position. But for the immediate future at least, robots are more likely to support that fight, rather than lead it.
How Artificial Intelligence Could Reshape Four Essential Competitions in Future Warfare
How will advances in artificial intelligence (AI) shape the future of war? There is a growing belief among some policymakers and analysts that AI will transform the future of war, but researchers are still in the early stages of understanding how AI will actually change warfighting.
The Making of a Mythos: AI-Enabled Cybersecurity and the Emerging Architecture of Access
Anthropic’s release of the frontier AI model Claude Mythos Preview has caused significant trepidation, as its autonomous code-reasoning capabilities surfaced previously undetected vulnerabilities across major operating systems and software infrastructure. The architecture of access, being constructed around such capabilities, creates an asymmetry in access. India needs to secure critical infrastructure by updating, modernizing or replacing legacy systems.
Close Calls at Michigan’s Dams Are a Climate Warning to America
Record flooding pushed Michigan’s dams to the brink of disaster. The near miss reflects the national problem of infrastructure that is not suited to the challenges of a warming world.
The Missing Link in America’s Critical Minerals Push Isn’t Mining – It’s Processing Expertise
The United States is spending billions of dollars to secure access to critical minerals – minerals and metals that are essential to modern technology, from electric vehicles to smartphones and military systems. But amid the push to dig more, one question gets far too little attention: Who will actually process what comes out of the ground?