Widely-used social media data tool CrowdTangle will officially shut down just weeks before U.S. Presidential election. Meta claims it created an even more powerful successor, but can we believe it?
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Meta is preparing to launch LLaMA for researchers to assist in their work, according to Mark Zuckerberg. The large language model will also use an open model, accessible by researchers.
Two independent Israeli researchers have found a loophole with Microsoft's digital assistant- Cortana. The assistant can be used by anyone with malicious intent to bypass a locked PC.
Microsoft researchers have made various interesting predictions about what we can expect to see within the next ten years, including the eradication of the search box, and automated labor.
An independent researcher has uncovered a problem with the Android and browser versions of WhatsApp. An attacker can send around 4,000 smileys to their target which causes the victim's app to crash.
Raijin was unveiled today at the National Computational Infrastructure, where it impressed with operation speeds of around 1.2 petaflops; it's currently Australia's fastest supercomputer.
Researchers at the University of Missouri have unveiled tiny nuclear batteries that produce power from the decay of radioisotopes. Although such batteries are currently used in devices such as pacemakers and satellites, they are costly,...
Researchers in Australia have determined a way to prove that the kernels in mission-critical systems are safe, through the magic of mathematics. This method, which is being reported by CNET, is said to prove that...
Researchers in Switzerland have found a way to get better X-ray images using standard equipment in hospitals and airports. In the journal Nature Materials, researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the École Polytechnique...
The improved security in Microsoft's newest software products may leave some security researchers looking elsewhere for work. That was the message that some security professionals took away from BlueHat, an event last week on Microsoft's...
Consumer privacy firm TRUSTe is under fire from spyware researchers over its handling of a recent rogue download incident, and the fallout is leading those connected with the case to publicly question the firm's credibility....
It arrived in a blaze of publicity and had frenzied gadget fans queuing for days before its launch last month. But just weeks after Apple's iPhone was unleashed on American shoppers, researchers say they have...
Japanese engineers at Nippon Hoso Kyokai's Science and Technical Research Laboratories showed off their most recent work with the development of Super Hi-Vision, a system they hope will eventually replace HDTV. A SHV picture is...
At the Internet2 consortium's spring meeting in Arlington, Virginia, it was publically announced that a group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo had broken Internet speed records – twice in two days. On...
Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over. The idea may...
Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, researchers at Saint Louis University have developed a fuel cell battery that can run on any type of sugar source and can supposedly last 3 to 4 times...
A new study by a team of Microsoft and University of California researchers has shed light on how so-called "search spammers" work and how advertisers can help stop the practice. Search spam consists of sites...
Scientists from Microsoft labs all around the world gathered at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington for Microsoft Research TechFest 2007, the company's annual showcase of research projects. The three-day TechFest event is aimed at sharing...
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have created a memory circuit, built by a joint Caltech-UCLA team, the size of a white blood cell with a 160 kilobit capacity. Caltech researchers say the 160,000...
Security researchers have discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the widely used Adobe Acrobat Reader software that could make it easy for attackers to launch malicious code. The flaw, revealed by security researchers Stefano...
Researchers with McAfee claim to have found a first spyware application that targets the Symbian operating system for mobile phones. The spyware application comes bundled with a variant of the MultiDropper mobile phone Trojan. McAfee...
At the BroadGroup Power and Cooling Summit in London, IBM researchers presented an innovative approach for improving the cooling of computer chips, an increasingly urgent need given the large amount of heat released by today's...
Researchers at Brown University in the US have created a prototype rechargeable battery that is as thin as a plastic transparency and as powerful as 100 alkaline batteries. The plastic battery, created by engineers Tayhas...
IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced today that their researchers have demonstrated the first silicon-based chip capable of operating at frequencies above 500 GHz -- 500 billion cycles per second -- by cryogenically...
Researchers from Microsoft's anti-malware engineering team are working on an automated way to sort through the thousands of malware families and variants attacking Windows computers. The company unveiled its plans at the EICAR (European Institute...
The volume of security vulnerabilities discovered in Apple's Macintosh platform has increased significantly over the last several years, according to a new report released by McAfee's Avert Labs. The security software maker contends that...
Researchers located at the Technical University of Braunschweig, claim to have developed the first transparent OLED pixels. Their approach was to use transparent TFTs (thin-film transistors) made of a 100-nanometer-thick layer of zinc-tin-oxide, which...
I.B.M. researchers plan to describe an advance in chip-making on Monday that could pave the way for new generations of superchips. The development, which comes from materials research in the design of advanced lenses and...
Nintendo subsidiary threatens legal action to keep scientists from referring to cancer-causing gene by the nickname "Pokemon." In January's issue of the science journal Nature, Pier Paolo Pandolfi of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering...
Intel Corp.'s researchers are working to outwit cyber attackers, including those employing stealthy rootkits. The chip maker's Communications Technology Lab, in a project called System Integrity Services, has created a hardware engine to sniff out...
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s official site is apparently starting a new advertising campaign for their game, by following the fictional exploits of a team of Stalkers inside the game zone who report their findings, which will continue until...
Microsoft researchers showed off some forward-looking technologies this week, including new ways to protect systems against Internet worms, prevent hacker attacks, and measure available bandwidth on home networks. At its fifth annual TechFest, Microsoft Research...
Not wasting anytime with the release of Longhorn Microsoft is shifting around its work force. About 70 employees from Microsoft's Research unit will be working on Longhorn now. They will put to use...
Software bugs/errors are present in every piece of software. When you get a software error a lot of times it doesn't make any sense. So what's being done to make these software errors...
A new variant of the Atak worm, initially dubbed Atak.B, has been reported by most antivirus companies. However, the buzz around the malware—with its reported connection to the terrorist group Al Qaeda—may be greater than...
Wouldn't it be nice if your computer could read your paper in the morning? That sure would be handy, but even better than that would be if your computer could search through 1,000+ newspapers....
The mind-boggling speed and reach of Internet search engines mask a severe limitation: They are powered by words alone. What a humdrum existence. The world is so much brighter and more varied, full of objects...
As another round of computer worms attacked PCs around the world yesterday, scientists in Microsoft's advanced research division demonstrated a possible solution. The prototype technology is called Shield because it basically installs a shield over...
Intel researchers think computers could use some on-the-job training. The chipmaker's research arm on Monday said it is offering the Open Source Machine Learning Library, a collection of software that can help computers...
A team of university researchers says it will oppose Red Hat's attempt to trademark "Fedora," the company's moniker for its new hobbyist Linux line, based on their prior use of the name. Computer...
The Coca-Cola Company plans to spend $1.1 billion to use Microsoft's cloud and AI services
Microsoft raising Windows 11 24H2 system requirement to block CPUs without SSE4.2 and PopCnt
The new Microsoft Planner adds more task features designed for frontline workers
New version of Tiny11 Builder lets you debloat any Windows 11 build or version
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