‘The past gives comfort': Finding refuge on analog islands amid deepening digital seas

As technology distracts, polarizes and automates, people are still finding refuge on analog islands in the digital sea.
Live Science

AI is getting better and better at generating faces — but you can train to spot the fakes

Surprisingly, the training increased accuracy by similar amounts in super recognizers and typical recognizers, Gray said.

‘Memory manipulation is inevitable’: How rewriting memory in the lab might one day heal humans

Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.
Hackaday

Retrotechtacular: IBM’s The World Of OCR

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) forms the bridge between the analog world of paper and the world of machines. The ...
Tech Xplore

For computational devices, talk isn't cheap: Research reveals unavoidable energy costs across all communication channels

Every task we perform on a computer—whether number crunching, watching a video, or typing out an article—requires different ...
Opinion

Red teaming LLMs exposes a harsh truth about the AI security arms race

Every frontier model breaks under sustained attack. Red teaming reveals the gap between offensive capability and defensive readiness has never been wider.
eLife

Human EEG and artificial neural networks reveal disentangled representations and processing timelines of object real-world size and depth in natural images

Neural and computational evidence reveals that real-world size is a temporally late, semantically grounded, and hierarchically stable dimension of object representation in both human brains and ...