How Far Away Is Quantum Supremacy?
Two big obstacles stand between current quantum computers and the hardware needed for business use cases.
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Improving Everyday Computer-Human Interactions
Solutions presented in several papers at CHI 2025 may not be as simple to implement as they sound, experts say.
The Pros and Cons of Zero Trust
Implementations are complex, resource-intensive, and involve high costs.
AI’s Benefits Can Be Marginal in Medicine
The perception of AI driving magical medical breakthroughs is often far from the truth.
Illusions provide a way to study compositional generation and understand how machine learning models generate images.
Fighting for the Right to Repair
Advocates say incentives such as taxes on non-reparable goods and subsidies for repair-friendly designs could encourage manufacturers to support DIY repairs.
AI Teams Contend With Synthetic Data’s Jekyll/Hyde Roles
Experiments show a degradation in foundation-model performance once synthetic training data becomes too prevalent.
How AI Could Supercharge AR and VR
AI technologies and innovations are expected to unlock unprecedented experiences across AR and VR devices.
AI is sometimes not truthful, raising questions about how safe and reliable AI tools are in software development.
Researchers are developing generative AI models that match the sensibilities of a specific culture, group, or language.
Nuclear Power for AI; AI for Nuclear Power?
Regulation of AI technologies in the U.S. nuclear industry may be coming within the next year.
Could Biocomputers Revolutionize Scientific Research?
Recently developed biocomputing platforms are becoming available to researchers.
Scrutinizing LLM Reasoning Models
One team found a correlation between concise prompts and accurate answers.
Dozens of AI tools that can help improve elderly care are already being deployed in hospitals.
Nonsense and Malicious Packages: LLM Hallucinations in Code Generation
Researchers cognizant of the impact of hallucinations on software development are devising methods to mitigate their effect.
Carbon-aware scheduling tools analyze and optimize the trade-offs among carbon emissions, cost, and performance.
Scientists may have turned the corner on the quantum error correction challenge.
Protect Your Code Against Licensing Risks
Copyleft is a type of restrictive open source code that requires that any derivative uses of that specific code in other programs or products be made available under the same terms.
Internal Chat Logs of Ransomware Group Leaked
"Russia allows professional cybercrime gangs to operate within its borders as long as they do not cause domestic incidents."
Understanding public thinking can inform companies' decisions on developing and training AI tools.
The Power and Potential of Zero-Knowledge Proofs
ZKPs are a means of proving a statement while retaining privacy and ensuring information security.
Putting Humans Continually in the AI Loop
Human-in-the-loop optimization, when done well, can produce AIs that progressively shorten the time it takes humans to learn new skills.
Thermodynamic Computing Becomes Cool
Exploring a path to more energy efficient, sustainable computing.
Clock Bait: Why The Moon Needs Its Own Time Zone
Clocks tick faster on the Moon, which over time could lead to timing errors that are too large to accept for safe lunar navigation or autonomous navigation.
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