A new technique dubbed "Zombie ZIP" helps conceal payloads in compressed files specially created to avoid detection from security solutions such as antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) ...

Resident Evil Requiem is proving to be one of the standout releases of 2026 so far but there's one aspect of the game that puts it into a very exclusive club: The use of DirectStorage and GPU data ...

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Last week, Nikkei Asia reported that researchers at Sony Group were working on technology to identify copyrighted music embedded in AI-generated tracks. The story was widely picke ...

The Bitcoin network took its first step towards quantum-computing resistance with the addition of BIP 360 to its repository.

AI systems are far better than people at spotting deepfake images, but when it comes to deepfake videos, humans may still have the edge. That’s the surprising twist from a new study that pits people ...

Character.ai reveals innovative methods for optimizing large-scale pretraining, focusing on techniques like Squinch, dynamic clamping, and Gumbel Softmax, to enhance efficiency in AI model training.

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

I'm working on a scientific computing project (RCS simulation) and have been using zstd to compress large intermediate files containing lists of 3D model facet indices. I ran into a very interesting ...

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.