VIDEO WATCH: How crypto companies have empowered a shadow economy As governments grapple with the burgeoning crypto industry, this new investigation from ICIJ reveals how cryptocurrency companies have …
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The stage was set for a night of glamour and redemption. On a mild August evening, as Hollywood stars paraded down the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, Kevin Spacey was across the lagoon at the …
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From Dubai to Toronto, inside the crypto-to-cash storefronts fueling money laundering’s new frontier
W e had just pulled into the bus station in Lviv, Ukraine, when the city’s air-raid sirens began to wail. I’d taken an eight-hour trip from Kyiv with Richard Sanders, a U.S. Army veteran who was …
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Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers
W hen President Donald Trump pardoned Changpeng “CZ” Zhao in October, the White House press secretary painted the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange as the victim of a political …
At a glance Today’s multimodal AI systems can give answers that sound right but may not be grounded in what they actually observe over time, leading to unpredictable errors and safety risks in …
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UniRG: Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning
At a glance AI-driven medical image report generation can help medical providers become more efficient and productive. Current models are difficult to train because reporting practices vary widely …
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Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages
At a glance Microsoft Research releases PazaBench and Paza automatic speech recognition models , advancing speech technology for low resource languages. Human-centered pipeline for low-resource …
At a glance Imitation learning becomes easier when an AI agent understands why an action is taken. Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models (PIDMs) predict plausible future states, clarifying the direction …
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Introducing Segment Anything: Working toward the first foundation model for image segmentation
Something Went Wrong We’re having trouble playing this video. Segmentation — identifying which image pixels belong to an object — is a core task in computer vision and is used in a broad array …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 12, 2026 Zero-Day / Vulnerability Apple on Wednesday released iOS, iPadOS, macOS Tahoe, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS updates to address a zero-day flaw that it said has been …
A significant chunk of the exploitation attempts targeting a newly disclosed security flaw in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) can be traced back to a single IP address on bulletproof hosting …
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Prompt RCE, Claude 0-Click, RenEngine Loader, Auto 0-Days & 25+ Stories
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 12, 2026 Cybersecurity / Hacking News Threat activity this week shows one consistent signal — attackers are leaning harder on what already works. Instead of flashy new …
** The Hacker News ** Feb 12, 2026 Enterprise Security / Breach Prevention A new 2026 market intelligence study of 128 enterprise security decision-makers ( available here ) reveals a stark divide …
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh set of malicious packages across npm and the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository linked to a fake recruitment-themed campaign orchestrated by the …
Some spam I just received: Greetings from the Illuminati World Elite Empire. We extend this invitation to individuals who are ambitious, talented, and determined to rise above limitations. The …
Arnett Jackson Bonner has multiple felony convictions. This means he cannot possess a firearm. Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), convicted felons may not “possess in or affecting commerce, any …
Sometime in the late 1980s, as an elementary schooler in the Soviet Union, I discovered in my family’s library a heavy, dust-laden tome. I still remember the brown-yellow-tinged paper, the thick …
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The Meta Research PhD Fellowship program awards PhD candidates conducting research on the cusp of emerging topics across computer science, engineering, and behavioral science. To support their …
Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system , is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faster …
Health equity is a major societal concern worldwide with disparities having many causes. These sources include limitations in access to healthcare, differences in clinical treatment, and even …
We leverage two key techniques to aid convergence of this ill-posed problem. The first is a very lightweight, dynamically trained convolutional neural network (CNN) encoder that regresses camera poses …
Health datasets play a crucial role in research and medical education, but it can be challenging to create a dataset that represents the real world. For example, dermatology conditions are diverse in …
Google on Thursday said it observed the North Korea-linked threat actor known as UNC2970 using its generative artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini to conduct reconnaissance on its targets, as …
AI and Voter Engagement Social media has been a familiar, even mundane, part of life for nearly two decades. It can be easy to forget it was not always that way. In 2008, social media was just …