AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...
GameSpot

A Petri Dish Full Of Human Brain Cells Just Learned How To Play Doom

Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

Understandably, you're likely scratching your head, wondering how it's even possible for a petri dish to play Doom. Good question. The answer is the CL1, "the world’s first code ...
IEEE

Automated Generation of Multiple-Choice Questions for Computer Science Education Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Abstract: This work presents a novel perspective towards generating automated multiple-choice questions (MCQs)-a task fundamentally different due to the highly dynamic nature of computer science ...

Become a sentient AI in one of the most laser-focused strategy games I've ever played, Heart of the Machine

Heart of the Machine 1.0 is out now, blending pieces from the likes of Civilization, Cities Skylines, and XCOM into a unique ...
Psychology Today

When Chatbots Can Start to Seem Like They Have Minds

A few minutes with a chatbot may be enough to make it seem more mind-like. New research explores why humans start seeing ...
CNET

Telepathy Machine? Here's What MIT's AlterEgo Wearable Actually Does

AlterEgo, a company born out of MIT's Media Lab, recently shared a demo of its "silent speech" device that looks like ...
GitHub

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model (SLM) designed specifically for computer use. With only 7 billion parameters, Fara-7B is an ultra-compact Computer Use Agent (CUA) that ...
IEEE

EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interface Using Visual Flicker Imagination for Assistive Communication System

Abstract: Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology can be an alternative solution for people with severe disabilities who have lost their movement and communication abilities. This study proposes a ...
Microsoft

Computer-using agents now deliver more secure UI automation at scale

See how new updates to computer‑using agents improve UI automation with secure credentials, detailed monitoring, and scalable Cloud PC capacity. When we first introduced computer-using agents (CUAs) ...
AV Club

Mark Ruffalo inserts himself into James Cameron inserting himself into the Netflix/Paramount fight

The thing that distinguishes a big messy public merger fight being waged by entertainment companies from the regular kind of merger fight between, like, electronics stores, is that very few people ...
Live Science

'Thermodynamic computer' can mimic AI neural networks — using orders of magnitude less energy to generate images

Researchers generated images from noise, using orders of magnitude less energy than current generative AI models require. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...