Research

Atomic clocks are so last epoch, it's time someone nailed down the nuclear clock

'Giant step' in research could unlock a bunch of crazy science stuff

Science04 Sep 2024 | 29

From Copilot to Copirate: How data thieves could hijack Microsoft's chatbot

Prompt injection, ASCII smuggling, and other swashbuckling attacks on the horizon

Patches28 Aug 2024 | 7

AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they?

We can misremember it for you wholesale

AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 14

How to ingeniously and wirelessly inject malware onto someone's nearby Windows PC via Google's Quick Share

DEF CON Or rather could, until the web giant was tipped off

Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2024 | 16

Sam Altman's basic income experiment finds that money can indeed buy happiness

But not necessarily health

AI + ML23 Jul 2024 | 100

Websites clamp down as creepy AI crawlers sneak around for snippets

Shrinks training pool, but hurts services like the Internet Archive

AI + ML22 Jul 2024 | 15

MIT's bionic leg upgrade leaves amputees walking like the wind

Researchers expect treatment to be available clinically in around 5 years

Science02 Jul 2024 | 18

Study employs large language models to sniff out their own bloopers

What if it's LLMs all the way down?

AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 24

Self-driving cars safer in sunlight, twilight another story

YMMV

AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 75

Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit

Worker happiness hits an all-time low

On-Prem09 Jun 2024 | 111

To solve AI's energy crisis, 'rethink the entire stack from electrons to algorithms,' says Stanford prof

Think biologically not digitally to go from megawatts to watts, HAI gathering told

AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 8

By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload 'in half'

Prepare for the HyperAssistant of the future, maybe

Devops28 May 2024 | 97

Pew: Quarter of web pages vanished in past decade

Luckily we have the Wayback Machine

Personal Tech20 May 2024 | 27

Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems

Fake science challenges academic publishing

AI + ML16 May 2024 | 38

ML suggests all that relaxing whale song might just be human-esque gossiping

Now this is our kind of click bait

AI + ML09 May 2024 | 14

Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable?

Gosh, here's us thinking recursion was a solved problem

AI + ML09 May 2024 | 63

DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic claims AlphaFold 3 predicts bio-matter down to the DNA

AI may help drug discovery, but not US drug affordability

AI + ML09 May 2024 | 2

Semiconductor digital twins to sip $285M from America's CHIPS Act funding pool

Fake it until you make it, literally

Science06 May 2024 |

Some scientists can't stop using AI to write research papers

If you read about 'meticulous commendable intricacy' there's a chance a boffin had help

AI + ML03 May 2024 | 44

Novel vitrimer plastics promise greener PCBs

Even the least recyclable part of the process could be recovered 91 percent of the time

Science30 Apr 2024 | 4

Intel's neuromorphic 'owl brain' swoops into Sandia labs

Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI

AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 1

MIT breakthrough means there's no material too weird for 3D printing

Thanks to sensors and math, machines can 'learn' to adapt to new mediums

OSes15 Apr 2024 | 18

96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers

Could have been worse – last time researchers checked it was 98.6%

Research11 Apr 2024 | 13

Boffins deem Google DeepMind's material discoveries rather shallow

Web titan rejects criticisms, insists AI-found compounds are legit

AI + ML11 Apr 2024 | 21

It's 2024 and Intel silicon is still haunted by data-spilling Spectre

Go, go InSpectre Gadget

Research10 Apr 2024 | 23

CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024

2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap

Public Sector10 Apr 2024 | 16

Tough luck, bosses, AI is coming for your job, too

Algorithms as PHBs – who wouldn't want that?

AI + ML05 Apr 2024 | 38

ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems

Updated Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware

Software25 Mar 2024 | 9

Truck-to-truck worm could infect – and disrupt – entire US commercial fleet

The device that makes it possible is required in all American big rigs, and has poor security

Security22 Mar 2024 | 74

AI researchers have started reviewing their peers using AI assistance

ChatGPT deems your work to be commendable, innovative, and comprehensive

AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 12

AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers

We thought everyone was thrilled about being spied on and having their jobs taken by bots

AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 21

New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners

Subzero temperatures and batteries don't mix – but there may be a solution

Science28 Feb 2024 | 55

China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes

The coasters are making a comeback ... but tech won't be commercially available for some time

Storage23 Feb 2024 | 72

Korean eggheads crack Rhysida ransomware and release free decryptor tool

Great news for victims of gang behind the big British Library hit in October

Cyber-crime13 Feb 2024 | 6

Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA's JPL amid budget black hole

Launch windows do not respect political squabbling

Science07 Feb 2024 | 26

Affordable, self-healing power grids are closer than you think

Feature They're just an algorithm away, national lab engineer tells El Reg

Public Sector01 Feb 2024 | 114

Top-tier IT talent doesn't stick around in 'mid-market' organizations

Though that might be the least of their worries, according to this report

On-Prem25 Jan 2024 | 36

IBM overhauls rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points

Exclusive Big Blue staffers aren't pleased to lose out on potential bonuses

On-Prem17 Jan 2024 | 60

US tech innovation dreams soured by changed R&D tax laws

But Congress is on top of that, right?

On-Prem12 Jan 2024 | 5

Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next

Heads up, this isn't about Elon

Science12 Jan 2024 | 94

Cutting-edge microscopy reveals bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared

Gulp!

Science10 Jan 2024 | 46

Brain boffins think they've found the data format we use to store images as memories

No, you aren't special - we're probably all visual learners

Science02 Jan 2024 | 60

US fusion energy dreams edge closer to reality, Congress permitting

Yields could double next year – provided the budget is passed

Science02 Jan 2024 | 27

British railway system is getting another excuse for delays – solar storms

Let's choo-choo-choose safety, folks

Science12 Dec 2023 | 78

Boffins devise 'universal backdoor' for image models to cause AI hallucinations

Data poisoning appears open to all

AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 24

'Return to Office' declared dead

Remote work is here to stay despite in-person mandates, this economist says

On-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 248

How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop

Not that we're encouraging anyone to defeat this fingerprint authentication

Research22 Nov 2023 | 90

Three quarters of software engineers face retaliation for whistleblowing

Staff afraid to raise alarm when they see negligence, discrimination and more

Software21 Nov 2023 | 16

Passive SSH server private key compromise is real ... for some vulnerable gear

OpenSSL, LibreSSL, OpenSSH users, don't worry – you can sit this one out

Research14 Nov 2023 | 12

Tipsy tongues tell all: How your sloshed speech could snitch to Siri

Alexa, am I wasted?

Science10 Nov 2023 | 12

Amazon workers are in a warehouse of pain, independent report finds

6.9 injuries per 100 employees? Try 69 percent taking time off for injuries, exhaustion, survey concludes

Personal Tech26 Oct 2023 | 47

Hot fuzz: Cascade finds dozens of RISC-V chip bugs using random data storm

Video ETH Zurich boffins say they've devised a better CPU fuzzer to find flaws

Security24 Oct 2023 | 5

Want a clean energy transition? Better start putting cash into electrical grid

Spending needs to double to $600B by 2030 if we want to stay within 2°C warming

Science18 Oct 2023 | 91

Buyer's remorse haunts 3 in 5 business software purchases

They never do tell you about the unexpected costs and overly complex implementations

Applications18 Oct 2023 | 41

GoldDigger Android trojan targets Vietnamese banking apps, code contains hints of wider targets

More malware scum using acessibility features to steal personal info

Security06 Oct 2023 |

Boffins propose RISC-V microcontroller to power cubesats

Test chip promises crunching on par with 20-year-old chips while sipping power

Systems05 Oct 2023 |