This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won’t Work

Deveillance's Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics.
Microsoft

AI as tradecraft: How threat actors operationalize AI

Threat actors are operationalizing AI to scale and sustain malicious activity, accelerating tradecraft and increasing risk for defenders, as illustrated by recent activity from North Korean groups ...

The Capture season three: experts in facial recognition and AI decipher the fact from the fiction

It is not feasible, nor indeed ethical, to run a facial recognition system against all images on the internet.
Microsoft

Malicious AI Assistant Extensions Harvest LLM Chat Histories

Malicious AI browser extensions collected LLM chat histories and browsing data from platforms such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek.

Mosquito monitoring through sound—implications for AI species recognition

Mosquitoes transmit several pathogens of public health importance, including malaria, dengue, chikungunya and Zika. These ...
IEEE

Mask R-CNN with HRNet Backbone for Person Detection Evaluation on COCO Using mIoU and Threshold Optimization

Abstract: A crucial computer vision problem is person detection, but real-world challenges including crowded backgrounds, inconsistent lighting, and object occlusion require accurate and robust models ...
IEEE

Robust Slip Detection Using Magnetic Tactile Sensors During Dynamic Robotic Manipulation via Stray Magnetic Fields Compensation

Abstract: Stable object grasping is essential in robot manipulation, but unexpected slippage is a major cause of task failure. Magnetic tactile sensors are promising for slip detection due to their ...