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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/…

ArtDependence | Cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections
Cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections

🕸️ 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

Spiders inspire biologists to create artificial webs to capture airborne DNA for biodiversity monitoring
The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

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

Anthropic’s new model is its latest frontier in the AI agent battle — but it’s still facing cybersecurity concerns
Claude Opus 4.5 is out today.

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…

Advances in artificial vision systems: a comprehensive review of technologies, applications, and future directions - Biomedical Engineering Letters
This review article focuses on recent advancements and persistent challenges in artificial vision prostheses designed to restore sight for patients affected by retinal diseases. It comprehensively examines various approaches, including epiretinal, subretinal, and suprachoroidal implants, as well as optic nerve and visual cortex stimulation strategies. The critical role of the retina in visual perception is explored, emphasizing how retinal degeneration affects the transmission of visual informa…

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

Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made from both living tissue and synthetic parts. By pairing lab-grown muscles with synthetic skeletons, researchers are engineering a menagerie of muscle-powered crawlers, walkers, swimmers, and grippers.

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

OpenAI, Leidos partner to deploy AI for federal agency missions
While AI is increasingly used in agencies already, company leaders say the collaboration will help tailor the technology to specific missions.

"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/…

The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly.
As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.

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…

Hundreds of creatives warn against an AI slop future
The Stealing Isn’t Innovation campaign — supported by artists like Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and George Saunders — warns of a future filled with AI slop.