Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI
Can AI writing detectors be trusted? We dig into the theory behind them. Enlarge / An AI-generated image of James Madison writing the US Constitution using AI. (credit: Midjourney / Benj Edwards) If you feed America's mo.....»»
Digital SAT will be shorter, easier to administer and take
College Board conducted a pilot program in November 2021 in the US and overseas. Four out of five students found the process to be less stressful than the standard written test, while 100 percent of educators reported a positive experience......»»
Could Echoes from Colliding Black Holes Prove Stephen Hawking"s Greatest Prediction?
Subtle signals from black hole mergers might confirm the existence of “Hawking radiation”—and gravitational-wave detectors may have already seen them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Mortal Kombat sequel will be written by Moon Knight scribe
Jeremy Slater, the head writer of Marvel Studios' Moon Knight, has signed on to pen a sequel to last year's hit, Mortal Kombat, based on the video games......»»
"Google Is Forcing Me To Dump a Perfectly Good Phone"
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard, written by Aaron Gordon: Not quite three years ago, I bought a Pixel 3, Google's flagship phone at the time. It has been a good phone. I like that it's not too big. I dropped it a bunch, but it di.....»»
Booby-trapped sites delivered potent new backdoor trojan to macOS users
Written from scratch, DazleSpy is the latest advanced piece of Mac malware. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have uncovered advanced, never-before-seen macOS malware that was installed using exploits that were almost.....»»
Meta Researchers Build an AI That Learns Equally Well From Visual, Written or Spoken Materials
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Meta (AKA Facebook) researchers are working on [...] an AI that can learn capably on its own whether it does so in spoken, written or visual materials. The traditional way of training an AI model t.....»»
Analysis of bankruptcy data reveals patterns that underscore broader social, economic trends
A new paper co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expert who studies consumer credit issues provides the first comprehensive overview of bankruptcy filers in more than 30 years, shining a spotlight on the economic stressors faced by.....»»
Galaxy evolution: A cosmic romance written in the stars
An international team of astronomers has taken a step forward in understanding the evolution of galaxies, and in so doing, told a story written in the heavens......»»
Mass. lawmakers want to tweak connected car “right to repair” law
OEMs argue that the law as written creates a cybersecurity risk. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images/Aurich Lawson) Back in 2013, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to pass a "right to repair" law that required carma.....»»
Backdoor RAT for Windows, macOS, and Linux went undetected until now
Never-before-seen, cross-platform SysJoker came from an "advanced threat actor." Enlarge (credit: Jeremy Brooks / Flickr) Researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen backdoor malware written from scratch for systems running.....»»
Backdoor for Windows, macOS, and Linux went undetected until now
Never-before-seen cross-platform SysJoker came from an "advanced threat actor." Enlarge (credit: Jeremy Brooks / Flickr) Researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen backdoor written from scratch for systems running Windows,.....»»
New book traces trajectory of feminism in modern China
Even before creating a constitution, the first thing the victorious revolutionaries of the People's Republic of China did was pass the New Marriage Law in 1950, giving women equal rights and creating a fundamentally feminist legal framework compared.....»»
Spider-Man’s Jon Watts to produce Final Destination 6 for HBO Max
Director Jon Watts has written a treatment for Final Destination 6, and he will produce the new sequel as an original movie for HBO Max......»»
Study finds that K-12 experience and population density are among factors that support rural "brain gain"
Many academics and journalists have written about rural "brain drain," the migration of talented and bright young people who leave their communities, usually in search of better economic opportunities. But a team of Iowa State University researchers.....»»
The GMC Hummer EV Could Pop Wheelies Before Engineers Intervened
New submitter X2b5Ysb8 shares a report from The Drive, written by Peter Holderith: Driving a 2022 GMC Hummer EV prototype back in Oct. 2021 was an eye-opening experience. [...] I did a fair amount of driving and some riding along with the vehicle's c.....»»
Archaeologists long believed that ancient graves were robbed all over Europe, but here"s why they"re wrong
From the collapse of Roman power to the spread of Christianity, most of what we know about the lives of people across Europe comes from traces of their deaths. This is because written sources are limited, and in many areas archaeologists have only fo.....»»
Tech Startup Wants To Gamify Suing People Using Crypto Tokens
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard, written by Maxwell Strachan: A new tech startup plans to become "the stock market of litigation financing" by allowing everyday Americans to bet on civil lawsuits through the purchase (and trade).....»»
Written in the bones: Medieval skeletons tell story of daily life in Cambridge
The working class had higher risk of injury than friars or sheltered hospital inmates. Enlarge / The remains of an individual buried in an Augustinian friary, excavated in 2016 on the University of Cambridge's New Museums site......»»
Written in the bones: Medieval skeletons tell story of social inequality in Cambridge
The working class had higher risk of injury than friars or sheltered hospital inmates. Enlarge / The remains of an individual buried in an Augustinian friary, excavated in 2016 on the University of Cambridge's New Museums site......»»
New epoch of miniaturized Cherenkov detectors
Recently, the research team led by Prof. Yu Luo from the school of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, discovered surface Dyakonov-Cherenkov radiation. This new type of Cherenkov radiation not only presages the ne.....»»