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AI & Machine Learning
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.
AI & Machine Learning
Helping AI models to meet the real world
Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant dec…
Three MIT Press journals lead their fields with Clarivate No. 1 rankings
Computational Linguistics, International Security, and The Review of Economics and Statistics lead their disciplines wit…
AI & Machine Learning
How visual learning happens in the brain
Scientists find that learning to identify a new object subtly reshapes visual processing in the brain.
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Chris Cartrett to Step Down as CEO of Aderant, Departing Legal Tech to Lead Public Safety Software Company; Former CEO Deane Price to Return on Interim Basis
In a major leadership change at one of legal technology’s largest companies, Chris Cartrett will step down as pres…
AI & Machine Learning
Exclusive: As Its Kaleidoscope Conference Returns for Year Two, 8am Trades Austin’s Cowboy Boots for the Las Vegas Strip — And Books the Savannah Bananas’ Founder As Keynote
Last September, when the company 8am — having successfully pulled off a major rebrand just three weeks earlier — then we…
Monday, 13 July 2026
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant.
AI & Machine Learning
Percipient Launches Certera.AI, A Blind Head-to-Head Testing Ground for Legal AI, with a Lawyer-Voted Leaderboard On the Way
Which AI models are actually best at legal work? A new platform launched in beta by the alternative legal services provi…
AI & Machine Learning
AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data
“SceneSmith” system uses collaborative AI agents to create realistic 3D environments of places like kitchens, hotels, an…
AI & Machine Learning
The AI Productivity Inflection: How the Agentic PDLC Accelerated Delivery and Drove AI Adoption
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Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
AI & Machine Learning
New method aims to keep kids safe from illegal AI-generated content
Researchers developed an auditing technique to test generative AI models for malicious capabilities, without prompting t…
Saturday, 11 July 2026
AI & Machine Learning
eBay Defeats Contributory Copyright Claim–Lee v. SBS
Lee is enforcing music copyrights against karaoke machine makers that allegedly include copyrighted songs. He sent numer…
Friday, 10 July 2026
Discovery could lead to brighter, more energy-efficient digital displays
Researchers found a simple solution for extending the lifespans of LEDs made from glowing microscopic particles called q…
AI & Machine Learning
UChicago Law Bans Laptops from 1L Classrooms As Part of Sweeping New AI Strategy for Legal Education
The University of Chicago Law School yesterday released a comprehensive AI Strategy Statement that will reshape how it t…
Thursday, 9 July 2026
Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
The feud between NightmareEclipse and Microsoft shows no signs of resolving soon.
Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA
Broadcom accuses Allstate of dodging VMware audits.
New flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird
MIT engineers’ design could lead to a new class of aerial-aquatic vehicles for ocean exploration.
A baseball-sized sensor can detect chemical threats
The “TOSSIT” device, developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, can warn service members and first responders of dangerous vap…
Tiny robot boats build floating structures
MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assemb…
Regulation & Compliance
Large Roundup of Section 230 Rulings
This blog post rounds up nearly 20 Section 230 cases (and adjacent cases), mostly from the past four months, that for wh…
Wednesday, 8 July 2026
AI & Machine Learning
Separating logic and language
Neuroscientists find logical reasoning does not involve language-processing parts of the brain.
AI & Machine Learning
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.