For much of my computer science career, I viewed software vulnerability detection as a craft. The best researchers combine technical skill with intuition: the ability to know whether a software bug was a minor bug or a sign of a more serious vulnerability. For decades, machines found bugs and humans decided which ones mattered. Now,
Twice a day, the tides ebb and flow through a labyrinth of sandy channels, salt marshes and mangrove forests that flank the 88 islands and islets of Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago (Arquipélago dos Bijagós in Portuguese). Seen from above, the process leads to radical changes in the landscape: during low tide, intertidal mudflats and sand flats
Technology companies like Google have set up important offices in London.Credit: Tim Robberts/Getty When Mythos, an artificial intelligence model from US firm Anthropic, was rolled out to a limited group of companies earlier this year, rumors quickly circulated about the system’s hacking capabilities and cybersecurity threats. True clarity about the power of the model came
The parasite that causes diarrhea Cyclospora cayetanensis It reproduces through egg-like structures called oocysts (stained orange in this microscope image).Credit: CDC/DPDx – Melanie Moser A microscopic parasite found in contaminated food products is ruining summer meals across the United States in the largest outbreak of its kind in the country’s history. And health officials have
Credit: bpawesome/Getty Replication of experimental results is important for building credible science, but replication studies are often difficult to find. A team of researchers wants to change that. They have begun publishing replication studies on the peer review platform PubPeer, along with links to the original studies. There have been numerous attempts to replicate scientific
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