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A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers—and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
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A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers—and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: “vegetative electron microscopy.” This phrase, which sounds...

Potentially huge Hertz data breach sees customer personal info and driver licenses stolen
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Potentially huge Hertz data breach sees customer personal info and driver licenses stolen

Car rental giant Hertz confirms suffering a data breach The attack occurred through Cleo, a file transfer service provider The threat actors abused...

Apple has a plan for improving Apple Intelligence, but it needs your help – and your data
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Apple has a plan for improving Apple Intelligence, but it needs your help – and your data

Apple Intelligence has not had the best year so far, but if you think Apple is giving up, you’re wrong. It has big...

Lightweight AI model facilitates high-quality image generation without direct transmission of sensitive data
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Lightweight AI model facilitates high-quality image generation without direct transmission of sensitive data

Qualitative results in IID scenario with a privacy budget. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.08085 A new ultra-lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) model has been...

New model can generate audio and music tracks from diverse data inputs
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New model can generate audio and music tracks from diverse data inputs

AudioX Architecture. This figure depicts the underlying architecture of AudioX, highlighting its diffusion transformer framework with the novel multi-modal masking strategy that enables...

Top US lab testing firm hit with major data leak, exposes health info on 1.6 million users
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Top US lab testing firm hit with major data leak, exposes health info on 1.6 million users

Laboratory Services Cooperative confirmed suffering a data breach in October 2024 An investigation uncovered that the crooks stole sensitive data The information has...

‘Catastrophic overtraining’ could harm large language AI models that are trained on more data for the sake of training
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‘Catastrophic overtraining’ could harm large language AI models that are trained on more data for the sake of training

Researchers from top US universities warn extending pre-training can be detrimental to performance Too much pre-training can deliver worse performance due to something...

It’s broadband, Jim, but not as we know it: Japanese tech giants are developing a broadband optical SSD for data centers
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It’s broadband, Jim, but not as we know it: Japanese tech giants are developing a broadband optical SSD for data centers

Broadband Optical SSDs may be key to development of town-sized mega data centers Opting for optical SSDs allow distance between compute and storage...

Zuckerberg allegedly offered US data to China in bid to enter market, ex-Meta exec tells Senate
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Zuckerberg allegedly offered US data to China in bid to enter market, ex-Meta exec tells Senate

Sarah Wynn-Williams, former Director of Public Policy at Facebook, spoke in front of the Senate She said the company offered data on US...