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Hackers are targeting AI toolchains, not just AI apps
WIRED, citing CrowdStrike research, says attackers are aiming at the software pipelines behind AI development to steal credentials, exfiltrate data, and in some cases sabotage systems.
Hannah Fry’s Leelavati Prize Highlights the Growing Public Role of Mathematical Communication
The Cambridge mathematician was recognized for helping turn abstract mathematics into something broader audiences can understand and value.
Nvidia’s next move is to own the full AI data center stack
Nvidia is extending its AI ambitions beyond GPUs with Vera Rubin, pushing CPUs, networking, and rack-level systems as the next frontier in AI infrastructure.
How Scientists Identified the Rare Space Rock That Helped End the Dinosaurs
A new analysis of the K-Pg boundary suggests the Chicxulub impactor was an unusually rare carbonaceous chondrite, adding another layer to the dinosaurs’ bad luck.
Ancient DNA analysis may have settled a 400-year Medici death mystery
Researchers used DNA from Medici remains to test whether malaria, not assassination, explained the deaths of Francesco I de’ Medici and Bianca Cappello.
Inside Svalbard’s seed vault: the Arctic backup keeping crop diversity out of harm’s way
Deep in a Norwegian mountain, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores duplicate seed samples from genebanks around the world, offering a last-resort backup when local collections fail.
New audio tensorgram method aims to improve honey bee colony monitoring
A research paper describes using audio IoT sensors, modulation tensorgrams, and recurrent neural networks to better estimate hive strength from noisy recordings.
The White House is split over how hard to crack down on Chinese AI models
WIRED reports an internal policy divide over whether the US should tighten controls on increasingly capable Chinese AI systems or keep the current approach more open.
Anthropic wins court approval for $1.5B settlement over books used to train Claude
A federal judge signed off on a landmark copyright deal that will pay authors and publishers roughly $3,000 per book after Anthropic used pirated copies to train its chatbot.
EU court says VPNs are lawful tools in Anne Frank copyright dispute
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that VPN providers are not liable when users bypass geo-blocks, calling VPNs lawful technical tools in a copyright case tied to Anne Frank’s manuscripts.