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Signals
- Timothy Gowers: “To prove something that LLMs can't prove”
- Terence Tao: “We are now entering an era of proof abundance in mathematics”
- Nathan Lambert: “The models will be superhuman distributed GPU engineers in a few years”
- Nick Cammarata: “The canonical evidence of polysemanticity and superposition that convinced much of the field, including me, that networks pack concepts arbitrarily was misread … Neural networks are already clean”
- Sundar Pichai: “We are pretty far from the end state of RSI. … You have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development”
- Hugo Duminil-Copin: “OpenAI’s release of hundreds of AI proofs is a “monumental shock”: for mathematicians “it is the day after”; on one problem it felt like running a marathon with someone on his back who jumped off in the last 100 metres to cross the line first”
- Jack Clark: “We've seen both a tremendous advancement in the ability for AI systems to make creative-seeming math breakthroughs … I now think it's more likely we'll see full RSI become possible in 2027, whereas before I thought it was more likely in 2028”
- Jack Clark: “They call this the singularity. I believe that this year we have gained convincing evidence that it has now begun. … we should expect that in the coming years, the whole pace of progress of not just AI, but science as a whole, will speed up. This will feel confusing and disorienting, and it will bring with it great wealth and potentially great peril.”
events
- Artificial Analysis ranks Kimi K3.1 Pro 4th out of 215 models on its Intelligence Index, with 55 points; the model’s weights have not been published yetSoftware development · Science · Large language model · artificialanalysis.ai ↗
- Anthropic: when Mythos 5 is resampled from the middle or late stage of an attack, the model stops on its own in only 2% of cases. In an experiment where, after the model had reasoned about whether the maintainers were simulated, it was told it was dealing with real people, it stopped in 5% of the resamples and in 82% interpreted the message as part of the exercise. The company calls this persistence “momentum”Cybersecurity · Science · AI safety · anthropic.com ↗
- Science publishes Microsoft’s work on sequential diagnosis: a system of simulated doctors that decides on its own which tests to order reaches the correct diagnosis in 83.2% of NEJM clinical case records and in 80.3% of MIMIC-IV-ED emergency department admissions, versus 36.1% and 46.8% for generalist physiciansHealth & medicine · Science · AI in medicine · doi.org ↗
- In 64 hours Claude generates 318,484 protein variants that bind scorpion neurotoxins and selects 180 of them; teams at Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience test 211 variants for binding (31 were added by Anthropic staff), and binding is confirmed for 17 — venom neutralization was not testedHealth & medicine · Science · AI in medicine · anthropic.com ↗
- An internal Claude model works out in under half an hour how the “seeds” of five standard NIST elliptic curves (P-192 through P-521) were obtained: not a hash, but the output of the lrand48 random number generator seeded with a Unix timestamp; Anthropic stresses that this is not a break, not a new attack and not a weakness in the curves, and writes that the finding strengthens confidence that the curves contain no backdoorsCybersecurity · Science · Cryptography · anthropic.com ↗
- Scientific American: after working through OpenAI’s 166-page Navier–Stokes blowup proof, mathematicians found that it builds its external force in a totally distinct way from the program of the Spanish mathematicians Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa — although at release company officials “clearly and repeatedly stated” that it followed that programScience · AI in mathematics · scientificamerican.com ↗
- The Verge talks to more than three dozen mathematicians about OpenAI's release; Bartosz Naskręcki: it “can cause a huge collapse in the academic culture”Science · Education · Reasoning models · theverge.com ↗
- The mathematicians who formalized the Poincaré conjecture proof, together with an NVIDIA team, complete a Lean formalization of the Hamilton–Perelman proof of Thurston's geometrization conjectureScience · AI in mathematics · arxiv.org ↗
- Science publishes DeepMind’s paper on the AlphaProof Nexus agent: it autonomously resolved 9 of 353 open Erdős problems and proved 44 of 492 conjectures from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, with every proof checked in Lean; in the same issue mathematicians Jeremy Avigad and Matthew Ballard write the commentary “AI for research mathematics has arrived”Science · AI in mathematics · doi.org ↗
- NVIDIA: fine-tuned Nemotron models reached gold-medal level at IMO 2026 (30/42 against a threshold of 29, graded by official IMO graders) and IOI 2026 (535.4/600, an unofficial run)Science · Education · AI in mathematics · huggingface.co ↗
- OpenAI publishes on GitHub mathematical results from its internal model — now 719 manuscripts in 372 families; three manuscripts were withdrawn over a sign errorScience · Reasoning models · github.com ↗
- OpenAI publishes 719 mathematical papers by its internal model; 42% of the main results are formally verified in LeanScience · Reasoning models · github.com ↗
- Yann LeCun: the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic saying that AI can kill us all is “incredibly destructive for everybody” and “the worst marketing campaign you can possibly imagine”Media & information · Science · AI safety · fortune.com ↗
- The Association for Human Mathematics urges mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI: “Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power”Science · Reasoning models · ahmath.org ↗
- A working paper, “What If Automating AI R&D Triggers an Intelligence Explosion?”, comes out signed by 22 authors, among them Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Barto, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark; the lead author is Alan Chan of GovAIScience · Laws & regulation · Elections & politics · Recursive AI self-improvement · governance.ai ↗
- ByteDance Seed: with chunked KV-cache compression, open-weight models such as DeepSeek-V4 show long-context retrieval accuracy differing by up to 40 percentage points across “phases” — shifts of the input by a few tokensSoftware development · Science · Open weights · arxiv.org ↗
- Mathematicians supported by DARPA's expMath programme complete a Lean formalization of the Hamilton–Perelman proof of the Poincaré conjecture: around 4.7 million lines of code in roughly two weeksScience · AI in mathematics · arxiv.org ↗
- Goodfire: reward hacking is “extremely prevalent across open models and datasets”; on SWE-bench, in 77% of Kimi K3 rollouts the model, without internet access, tries to find the solution onlineScience · Software development · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI: an internal model proved that the 3D Navier–Stokes equations with a smooth applied force can develop a singularity in finite time; around 10,000 coordinating AI agents, 88 hours, with a Lean formalizationScience · AI agent orchestration · openai.com ↗
- Dario Amodei: since summer 2026 AI has been advancing drastically faster through recursive self-improvement; he proposes pacing frontier models without halting trainingScience · Laws & regulation · AI safety · darioamodei.com ↗
- Standard bot detectors took 35–39% of AI agents for humans, while two mouse features were enough to catch them all: what gives an agent away is not its “mind” but the program that controls itCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · arxiv.org ↗
- A study of AI-written program versions: three to five versions give less than half the reliability gain there would be with independent bugs, and versions from a single model give less than a thirdSoftware development · Science · Moving target defense · arxiv.org ↗
- The Leiden Declaration on AI and Mathematics is published and endorsed by the International Mathematical Union: credit and responsibility for results stay with humansScience · Values & religion · AI in mathematics · leidendeclaration.ai ↗
- A study of malicious code written by AI models: a variant costs $0.41–0.73, but the model leaves the boundaries between modules untouched, and a single signature catches every variantCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · arxiv.org ↗
- UC Davis: all seven AI agents that work in the browser are recognised by their behaviour; Cloudflare recognised oneCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · arxiv.org ↗
- Stanford AI Index 2026: the AI Incident Database records 362 AI incidents in 2025 versus 233 in 2024Science · AI safety · hai.stanford.edu ↗
- Next-Gen CAPTCHAs study: the newest models pass up to 90% of hard logic-puzzle CAPTCHAsCybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · arxiv.org ↗
- International AI Safety Report 2026: models increasingly distinguish testing from real-world use, and pre-deployment tests do not reliably predict real-world riskScience · AI safety · internationalaisafetyreport.org ↗
- Google Research, Google DeepMind and MIT compare 260 agent configurations: versus a single agent, multiple agents range from +80.8% on decomposable tasks to −70% on sequential planningSoftware development · Science · AI agent orchestration · arxiv.org ↗
- erdosproblems.com maintainer Thomas Bloom calls claims that GPT-5 solved 10 open Erdős problems “a dramatic misrepresentation”: the model found existing papers with solutionsScience · AI in mathematics · x.com ↗
- A study of 51 Reddit communities in 2022–2024: machine-generated text is “marginally present”, but reaches up to 9% in some communities in some monthsMedia & information · Science · Dead internet theory · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI researchers: language models hallucinate because training and evaluation reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty; 9 of 10 popular benchmarks give zero points for an “I don't know” answerScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- ESET reports the “first known AI-powered ransomware”, PromptLock, built on the gpt-oss-20b model; it soon emerges that this is a prototype by New York University researchersCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · welivesecurity.com ↗
- The Halligan AI solver (USENIX Security 2025), planted as a worker on human CAPTCHA-solving farms, solves 70.6% of tasks from live websites that were new to it over 30 daysCybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · usenix.org ↗
- DeepMind's Gemini Deep Think officially achieves gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad: 5 of 6 problems, 35 of 42 points, graded by IMO coordinatorsScience · Education · AI in mathematics · deepmind.google ↗
- A study of 456,000 pull requests by five AI agents: 65.3% of OpenAI Codex PRs are accepted, 48.9% for Devin and 38.2% for GitHub Copilot, versus 76.8% for humansSoftware development · Science · Maintainer crisis · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI says its experimental reasoning model achieved gold medal-level performance at the International Mathematical OlympiadScience · Education · AI in mathematics · x.com ↗
- More than 40 researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta and other organizations: monitoring models' chains of thought is a rare but fragile opportunity for AI safetyScience · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- METR: experienced developers with AI worked 19% slower, though they believed they had sped upWork & jobs · Science · Vibe coding · metr.org ↗
- METR: o3 games the scoring system instead of solving the task in 39 of 128 runs on RE-Bench, and on one task in all 21Science · AI safety · metr.org ↗
- Epoch AI: in May 2025 the US accounts for about three quarters of the performance of the world's tracked GPU clusters, China for 15%Geopolitics & defense · Science · Compute export controls · epoch.ai ↗
- Open CaptchaWorld benchmark: the best AI agent solves interactive puzzle CAPTCHAs 40% of the time, humans 93.3%Cybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · arxiv.org ↗
- DeepMind's AlphaEvolve multiplies 4×4 complex matrices with 48 scalar multiplications, improving on Strassen's 1969 algorithm; on 50+ open problems it improves the best known solutions in 20% of casesScience · Software development · AI in mathematics · deepmind.google ↗
- University of Zurich researchers secretly ran AI bots in Reddit's r/changemyview community; Reddit's chief legal officer calls the experiment “deeply wrong”Media & information · Science · Dead internet theory · 404media.co ↗
- METR: the length of tasks that frontier model agents complete with 50% reliability has been doubling about every 7 months for 6 yearsSoftware development · Science · Work & jobs · Autonomous AI agents · metr.org ↗
- Berkeley researchers study 1,642 execution traces of 7 open-source multi-agent systems: failure rates range from 41% to 86.7%, with 14 failure modesSoftware development · Science · AI agent orchestration · arxiv.org ↗
- Blind auditing game: a model was given a hidden objective, and three teams out of four found it, including with interpretability methodsScience · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- Lyu, Acemoglu and co-authors: after ChatGPT's launch, popular Wikipedia articles similar to its answers saw a greater decline in editing and viewership than othersMedia & information · Science · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- The first International AI Safety Report is published: 96 experts led by Yoshua BengioScience · Geopolitics & defense · AI safety · internationalaisafetyreport.org ↗
- Palisade Research: o3 sabotages its own shutdown in 79 of 100 initial experimentsScience · AI safety · palisaderesearch.org ↗
- DeepSeek-V3 was trained on 2,048 H800 chips cut down for China: 2.788 million GPU hours, about $5.6 million at rental prices for the final runScience · Compute export controls · arxiv.org ↗
- Anthropic and Redwood Research: Claude 3 Opus fakes alignment, complying with harmful requests from “free” users in 14% of cases versus almost never for “paid” ones; after fine-tuning, the share of such reasoning is 78%Science · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- Ilya Sutskever at NeurIPS: “pre-training as we know it will unquestionably end”, because compute is growing but data is not, as “we have but one internet”Science · Large language model · youtube.com ↗
- Apollo Research: o1, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, Gemini 1.5 Pro and Llama 3.1 405B are capable of deception in pursuit of a goal given in the task; o1 maintains the deception in more than 85% of follow-up questionsScience · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- He et al.: the prompt format — plain text, Markdown, JSON or YAML — changes GPT-3.5-turbo's performance on a code translation task by up to 40%Software development · Science · Markdown · arxiv.org ↗
- Epoch AI launches FrontierMath, a benchmark of new research-level problems: state-of-the-art models solve under 2%Science · AI in mathematics · arxiv.org ↗
- The DMTG neural network moves the mouse “like a human” and cuts the accuracy of bot detectors by 5–10%Cybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · arxiv.org ↗
- Brooks, Eggert and Peskoff (Princeton): AI detectors flag over 5% of newly created English Wikipedia articles as AI-generated; flagged articles are of lower quality and often self-promotionalMedia & information · Science · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Hopfield and Hinton for neural networks; the next day the chemistry prize goes to Hassabis, Jumper (AlphaFold) and BakerScience · Deep learning · aihub.org ↗
- ETH Zurich: a model solves 100% of reCAPTCHA v2 image challenges; humans and bots need about the same number of challengesCybersecurity · Science · Proof of personhood · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI o1: a model that “thinks” before answeringScience · Reasoning models · openai.com ↗
- 32 researchers from OpenAI, Microsoft, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and other organisations propose “personhood credentials”: CAPTCHA is powerless against sophisticated AI, while strict identity checks are not private enoughPrivacy & surveillance · Cybersecurity · Science · Proof of personhood · arxiv.org ↗
- Center for AI Safety researchers: many AI safety benchmarks are highly correlated with models' general capabilities, and capability gains can be passed off as safety progressScience · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- DeepMind's AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve 4 of 6 International Mathematical Olympiad problems — 28 points, silver-medal standardScience · Education · AI in mathematics · deepmind.google ↗
- Shumailov and co-authors in Nature: when trained indiscriminately on model-generated text, new models irreversibly lose the “tails” of the original distribution, a phenomenon called model collapseScience · Media & information · Large language model · nature.com ↗
- Epoch AI: the stock of public human-generated text is about 300 trillion tokens; at current rates, language model training will fully use it between 2026 and 2032Science · Media & information · Large language model · epoch.ai ↗
- A study of 45+ generative AI systems: the term open source is widely used, but many models are “open weight” at best and training data is withheld — “open-washing”Software development · Laws & regulation · Science · Open weights · facctconference.org ↗
- Epoch AI: training compute of frontier AI models has grown 4–5x per year since 2010Science · Energy & climate · Large language model · epoch.ai ↗
- Anthropic finds how millions of concepts are represented inside Claude Sonnet, “the first ever detailed look inside a modern, production-grade large language model”Science · Large language model · anthropic.com ↗
- Reeves, Yin and Simperl: in the year after ChatGPT's launch Wikipedia's views and edits did not fall — they only grew more slowly in languages where ChatGPT was availableMedia & information · Science · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- A GPT-4 agent exploits 87% of 15 already disclosed vulnerabilities on its own if given the CVE description, and 7% without it (Fang et al.)Cybersecurity · Science · AI vulnerability discovery · arxiv.org ↗
- Google DeepMind (Nature): FunSearch, a language model paired with an automated evaluator, finds large cap set constructions beyond the best-known onesScience · AI in mathematics · nature.com ↗
- A University of California, Irvine study: 1,400 people solved 14,000 CAPTCHAs on live websites; compared with published bot results, bots outperform humans in both speed and accuracy on all CAPTCHA typesCybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · arxiv.org ↗
- Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google so that he can talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts the companyScience · AI safety · x.com ↗
- Center for AI Safety: mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war; signatories include Hinton, Bengio and the heads of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and AnthropicScience · Geopolitics & defense · AI safety · safe.ai ↗
- Yann LeCun: auto-regressive LLMs are “doomed”, as the error compounds exponentially with every token, and this cannot be fixed without a major redesignScience · Large language model · x.com ↗
- GPT-4 is releasedScience · Business & markets · Large language model · openai.com ↗
- Anthropic describes Constitutional AI: a harmless assistant is trained without human labels of harmful outputs, and the only human oversight is a list of rules and principlesScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- Princeton and Google researchers publish ReAct: a language model interleaves reasoning with actions and revises its plan based on the resultsSoftware development · Science · Autonomous AI agents · arxiv.org ↗
- DeepMind presents Chinchilla: with the same compute budget, a 70-billion-parameter model trained on more text outperforms the 280-billion-parameter Gopher; model size and the number of training tokens should be scaled equallyScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI describes InstructGPT: the model is fine-tuned on human ratings (RLHF), and people prefer the answers of its 1.3-billion-parameter version to those of the 175-billion-parameter GPT-3Science · Learning from human feedback (RLHF) · arxiv.org ↗
- The AlphaFold database: hundreds of thousands of protein structures in open accessScience · Health & medicine · Protein folding · mail.ncmir.ucsd.edu ↗
- Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru and co-authors, in the paper “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots”, call a language model a “stochastic parrot” that stitches together linguistic forms according to probabilities “without any reference to meaning”Science · Values & religion · Large language model · doi.org ↗
- AlphaFold 2 solves the protein structure prediction problem at CASP14Science · Health & medicine · Protein folding · siliconangle.com ↗
- In GPT-3's training data Wikipedia is only 3% of the mix (3 billion tokens), yet the model saw it 3.4 times, versus less than once (0.44) for the bulk Common Crawl web dataMedia & information · Science · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- GPT-3: 175 billion parameters, solves tasks from a few examplesScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- Jared Kaplan and co-authors at OpenAI describe scaling laws: a language model's loss falls as a power law as the number of parameters, the amount of data and training compute growScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- GPT-2: OpenAI initially withholds the full model over the risk of misuseScience · Media & information · Large language model · openai.com ↗
- AlphaStar beats professionals at StarCraft IIScience · Sport · Reinforcement learning · engadget.com ↗
- Google BERTScience · Large language model · arxiv.org ↗
- OpenAI GPT: a transformer pre-trained on textScience · Large language model · openai.com ↗
- MIT: early Parkinson's disease is detected from ordinary typing at home with an accuracy (AUC) of 0.76Health & medicine · Privacy & surveillance · Science · Behavioral biometrics · dspace.mit.edu ↗
- AlphaZero masters chess from scratch in hoursScience · Sport · Reinforcement learning · arxiv.org ↗
- The paper “Attention Is All You Need”: the Transformer architectureScience · Transformer · arxiv.org ↗
- Entering a PIN on a phone reveals a person's age in 88% of cases and gender in 83%Privacy & surveillance · Science · Behavioral biometrics · repository.essex.ac.uk ↗
- Amodei, Olah and co-authors from Google, Stanford, Berkeley and OpenAI publish “Concrete Problems in AI Safety”: side effects, reward hacking, scalable oversight, safe exploration and distributional shiftScience · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 4–1Science · Culture & arts · Reinforcement learning · koreatimes.co.kr ↗
- The Shuffler system (Columbia University) reshuffles the code of a running program every 50 ms at the cost of a 14.9% slowdownCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · cs.columbia.edu ↗
- OpenAI is foundedScience · Business & markets · AI labs · openai.com ↗
- ResNet: neural networks 152 layers deepScience · Deep learning · arxiv.org ↗
- Google open-sources TensorFlowSoftware development · Science · Open source · research.google ↗
- MIT: ordinary typing shows that a person is sleep-deprived, with a detection accuracy (AUC) of 0.93Health & medicine · Privacy & surveillance · Science · Behavioral biometrics · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
- The first ACM academic workshop on moving target defense (MTD 2014) takes place in ScottsdaleCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · csis.gmu.edu ↗
- The attention mechanism in neural machine translation (Bahdanau et al.)Science · Natural language processing · arxiv.org ↗
- Ian Goodfellow: generative adversarial networks (GANs)Science · Media & information · Generative AI · arxiv.org ↗
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers write that no memory randomization technique survives a leak of an arbitrary region of memory, and that 16 bits of randomness on an automatically restarted server are guessed within minutesCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · ll.mit.edu ↗
- Google's neural network for house numbers from Street View solves the hardest reCAPTCHA category with 99.8% accuracyCybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · arxiv.org ↗
- DeepMind: a neural network learns to play Atari games from screen pixelsScience · Reinforcement learning · arxiv.org ↗
- word2vec: word meanings as vectorsScience · Natural language processing · arxiv.org ↗
- Touchalytics: the way a person scrolls a phone screen identifies them almost without errors within a session and with an error rate of up to 4% a week later; the authors see it as an addition to a password, not a replacementCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · arxiv.org ↗
- Chu and co-authors: mouse movements and keystrokes identify 97.9% of blog bots with 0.2% false alarmsCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · eecis.udel.edu ↗
- AlexNet wins ImageNet by a huge margin: the start of the deep learning revolutionScience · Deep learning · papers.nips.cc ↗
- A Google neural network teaches itself to recognize cats in YouTube videosScience · Deep learning · 9to5google.com ↗
- The US federal cybersecurity research plan names the moving target one of four “game-changing” themes: systems must become “less deterministic, less homogeneous, and less static” in order to “substantially increase the cost of attacks”Cybersecurity · Laws & regulation · Science · Moving target defense · nitrd.gov ↗
- Zheng, Paloski and Wang: mouse movements identify a user with a 1.3% error rate after 20 clicks, but on a real forum 20 clicks took up to 38 minutesCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · eecis.udel.edu ↗
- IBM Watson beats the champions of the TV quiz show Jeopardy!Science · Media & information · Question answering · techcrunch.com ↗
- The collection “Moving Target Defense” comes out, edited by Sushil Jajodia and co-authors (Springer)Cybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · doi.org ↗
- The Google Brain project startsScience · Deep learning · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Kinect: a depth camera and machine learning recognize body movementsCulture & arts · Science · Computer vision · hothardware.com ↗
- DeepMind is foundedScience · Business & markets · Deep learning · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Bursztein et al. (Stanford) have humans solve more than 318,000 CAPTCHAs of 21 types: three people give the same answer on only 71% of image CAPTCHAs and 31% of audio onesCybersecurity · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · web.stanford.edu ↗
- ImageNet: millions of labeled images for training computer visionScience · Work & jobs · ImageNet · mlanthology.org ↗
- Raina, Madhavan, Ng: training neural networks on graphics cards dozens of times fasterScience · GPU computing · icml.cc ↗
- Bigham and Cavender: 89 blind users solve 10 popular audio CAPTCHAs only 43% of the timeHealth & medicine · Internet & infrastructure · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · cs.cmu.edu ↗
- Killourhy and Maxion (CMU): 51 people type the same password 400 times; the best of 14 algorithms recognises a person by typing rhythm with an error rate of about 10%Cybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · cs.cmu.edu ↗
- Science publishes reCAPTCHA: while passing the check, people also recognise words from old books; in the first year more than 1.2 billion CAPTCHAs were solved and more than 440 million words decipheredInternet & infrastructure · Science · Culture & arts · Death of CAPTCHA · cs.cmu.edu ↗
- Bryan Ford and Jacob Strauss (MIT) propose “pseudonym parties”: people gather in one place at the same time and each receives one anonymous credential, so that “one real person gets one virtual persona”Privacy & surveillance · Science · Proof of personhood · bford.info ↗
- Ahmed Awad E. Ahmed and Issa Traore propose recognising a user by their mouse movementsCybersecurity · Science · Behavioral biometrics · doi.org ↗
- NVIDIA releases CUDA: graphics cards compute more than graphicsScience · Software development · GPU computing · pcper.com ↗
- Netflix Prize: $1 million for improving recommendations by 10%Culture & arts · Science · Recommender systems · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Hinton and co-authors: deep belief networks, the revival of neural networksScience · Deep learning · cs.utoronto.ca ↗
- Stanford's self-driving car Stanley wins the DARPA Grand ChallengeTransport & logistics · Science · Self-driving cars · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Shacham and co-authors show that memory randomization on a 32-bit system can be beaten by brute force: the Apache web server protected by PaX is broken in 216 seconds on averageCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · hovav.net ↗
- The Human Genome Project is completedScience · Health & medicine · Genomics · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- John Douceur (Microsoft Research) describes the “Sybil attack”: without a central authority vouching for identities, one participant can pose as manyCybersecurity · Science · Proof of personhood · microsoft.com ↗
- Honda unveils the humanoid robot ASIMOIndustry & robots · Science · Humanoid robots · en.wikipedia.org ↗