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Cybersecurity researchers discovered that a firmware update mechanism in 271 models of Gigbyte motherboards was implemented insecurely, thus creating a potential backdoor to install malware on the motherboard.

Tech

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Spectre Beats Hat, A New Unique Tile

Hot on the heals of the newly discovered hat aperiodic tile, the spectre tile goes further to remove reflections and repetition.

Innovation

Science

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NASA AI Generative Design

NASA has turned to AI to generate the design of components to use during space flight that reduce the amount of materials used, and thus weight, while also being better at stress and bearing. The designs reduced stress factors by 10 times and weight by 66%.

Space

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AI Prompt Camera

Bjørn Karmann created an AI prompt camera called Paragraphica, that can generate a photo using in situ to generate an AI representation of the location of the camera with added context such as weather, time of day, date, and points of interest.

Innovation

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Maud Gonne Interview About Disrupting Evictions on Horseback

RTÉ digitised their acetate archives and made them available online. Among them is an incredible interview from 1945 with Maud Gonne, in which she describes disruption land war evictions on horseback, and going on the to France, before she was 21!

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Energy From Air

Engineers at University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a method to generate electricity from air using two porous nanofilms that create an imbalance of charge between water droplets. Stacking this air-gen device could allow the technology to scale up to the kilowatt level of electricity generation.

Environment

Innovation

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ChatUML

ChatUML is an AI tool that allows you to generate a UML diagram from a text prompt. The hours this tool could have saved me in the noughties!

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Detecting Chronic Pain Using Brain Waves

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco have developed a method that uses brain waves to identify chronic pain. By surveying patients during chronic pain episodes about their pain, with electrodes attached measuring their brain activity, the researchers created a dataset that could be used to train an AI model to detect the onset of chronic pain from brain wave measurements, and distinguish it from acute pain.

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Superbug Antibiotic Discovered Using AI

Researchers at MIT used AI to discover an antibiotic effective against the hospital superbug Acinetobacter baumannii, in less than 2 hours