'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets

A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit, ...
InfoQ

Meta's Noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface Brain2Qwerty Achieves 61% Accuracy

Meta recently open-sourced Brain2Qwerty v2, a noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) that can decode sentences from ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...
Nature

Scientists, supercomputers and AI seek to decode childhood mental health

Young people are in the throes of a mental health crisis. They suffer from increasing rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. The Mental Health Trajectories programme — the latest effort ...
PC World

What is encryption? The backbone of computer security, explained

If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.
GitHub

ARDY: Autoregressive Diffusion with Hybrid Representation for Interactive Human Motion Generation

ARDY is an autoregressive diffusion model designed for interactive motion generation, supporting online text prompting and flexible long-horizon kinematic constraints (root paths/waypoints, full-body ...