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The University of Maryland is delaying campuswide deployment of its AI-powered Virtual Study Assistant (VSA) after a randomized study failed to produce clear conclusions about its effects on learning.

The article examines fears that rapid artificial intelligence development could lead to a “Terminator”-style apocalypse, contrasting those concerns with more immediate and documented harms. President

The article argues that Georgia’s secret ballot is vulnerable because ballot scanners use a flawed anonymization method that can be reversed. A security issue disclosed in 2022 showed that the “random

A new fire-suppression technology is using sound waves rather than water to stop small flames before they spread into larger fires. The system, developed by Sonic Fire Tech, is designed to protect hom

DARPA wrapped up its Lift Challenge with no team fully meeting the goal of lifting four times a drone’s own weight, but several participants came close. The top performer was AVIDrone, a Canadian comp

OpenAI has launched its first branded hardware product, the $230 Codex Micro, amid ongoing speculation about more ambitious devices, including a personalized smart speaker. The Codex Micro is a limite

A new Ars Technica report argues that AI data centers’ total water use is small compared with overall water consumption, even though individual facilities can heavily affect local supplies. Amazon sai

OpenAI’s newly revealed Codex CLI system prompt for GPT-5.5 contains an unusual repeated instruction to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creat

A study on geosynchronous (GEO) satellites revealed that 50% of their IP links transmit unencrypted traffic, posing significant security risks. Researchers scanned 39 GEO satellites and identified cle

New York has filed a lawsuit against Valve, claiming the company enables "illegal gambling" through its loot box system and the resale of in-game skins for cash. The lawsuit argues that Valve has inad

The University of Maryland successfully demonstrated an experimental communication relay system linking a drone and a robotic boat during a test flight at Snow Hill Park in Mechanicsville, Maryland. O

Recent studies suggest that a "third state" exists between life and death, particularly in the context of cells. Research on AI-designed multicellular organisms called "xenobots" shows that cells can