I don't know why, given all the important institutions that hackers attack -- hospitals, schools, daycare centers -- but it really bothers me when they do things like this. It seems gratuitous somehow.
Cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections
https://artdependence.com/…
🕸️ Spiders inspire biologists to create artificial webs to capture airborne DNA for biodiversity monitoring
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spiders-biologists-artificial-webs-capture.html
Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.5 is "harder to trick with prompt injection than any other frontier model in the industry" but isn't "immune" to such attacks (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int
Advances in artificial vision systems: a comprehensive review of technologies, applications, and future directions https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13534-025-00513-4 "clinical value hinges on durability, effective resolution, surgical practicality, and user t…
If you are still using javax.mail.jar 1.x aka #JavaMail be aware that this is not supported any more. As a quick fix you can use the 1.6.8 release of jakarta.mail
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com
🦾 Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
#robotics
OpenAI and longtime US government contractor Leidos announce a partnership to roll out generative and agentic AI tools for specific missions at federal agencies (Miranda Nazzaro/FedScoop)
https://fedscoop.com/openai-chatgpt-le
"A high acuity is trivially obtained at the expense of field of view through suitable enlarging optics, so whenever a high acuity is claimed for a visual prosthesis one must also check if the corresponding field of view is better than tunnel vision." https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink
A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…
Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800 creatives launch "Stealing Isn't Innovation" to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…