Reddit is weighing identity verification methods to combat its bot problem

Steve Huffman, Reddit's CEO, said that using biometrics is the "most lightweight way" to verify that it's a human.
UC San Diego Today

A UC San Diego Tool Teaching Code to 25 Million is Even More Critical in Age of AI

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The ...

Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming. Here’s how it works.

Discord’s reversal followed a widespread user backlash, which also intensified scrutiny of the platform’s age-check partners.
GitHub

uqlm: Uncertainty Quantification for Language Models

UQLM provides a suite of response-level scorers for quantifying the uncertainty of Large Language Model (LLM) outputs. Each scorer returns a confidence score between 0 and 1, where higher scores ...
IEEE

Detection of Drones using Acoustic Signals and Machine Learning

Abstract: Drone detection using radar is popular. Diffraction effect of the signal is the main challenge in radar-based detection. An alternative approach to address the diffraction effect is acoustic ...
IEEE

Big Brother Is Watching: Proactive Deepfake Detection via Learnable Hidden Face

Abstract: As deepfake technologies continue to evolve, proactive defense techniques have gained increasing attention for their potential to either neutralize deepfake operations or simplify detection ...