Boosting faith in the authenticity of open source software

Speranza system brings hope to users that the package they download is functional software, not malware.

Steve Nadis | MIT CSAIL • mit
Dec. 11, 2023 ~9 min

Your car might be watching you to keep you safe − at the expense of your privacy

Your car’s safety technology takes you into account. But a lot of that technology helps car companies collect data about you. Researchers are working on closing the gap between safety and privacy.

M. Hadi Amini, Assistant Professor of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University • conversation
Dec. 6, 2023 ~7 min


Technique enables AI on edge devices to keep learning over time

With the PockEngine training method, machine-learning models can efficiently and continuously learn from user data on edge devices like smartphones.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Nov. 16, 2023 ~8 min

Internet of Things: tech firms have become our digital landlords – but people are starting to fight back

No one has time to read the terms and conditions we are often asked to consent to. But we’re sometimes agreeing to things we would rather not.

Guido Noto La Diega, Chair in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of Stirling • conversation
Nov. 8, 2023 ~7 min

Accelerating AI tasks while preserving data security

The SecureLoop search tool efficiently identifies secure designs for hardware that can boost the performance of complex AI tasks, while requiring less energy.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Oct. 30, 2023 ~9 min

The UK just passed an online safety law that could make people less safe

The online safety bill contains measures that appear to compel messaging services to break encryption.

Benjamin Dowling, Lecturer of Cybersecurity, University of Sheffield • conversation
Sept. 25, 2023 ~7 min

Shelters can help homeless people by providing quiet and privacy, not just a bunk and a meal

As US cities struggle to reduce homelessness, two scholars explain how planners can reform shelter design to be more humane and to prioritize mental health and well-being.

Heather Ross, Clinical Associate Professor in Nursing and Clinical Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University • conversation
Sept. 13, 2023 ~10 min

Helping computer vision and language models understand what they see

Researchers use synthetic data to improve a model’s ability to grasp conceptual information, which could enhance automatic captioning and question-answering systems.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Sept. 13, 2023 ~7 min


New tool is the latest weapon in fight against robocalls

A new tool could help reveal more information about pesky robocalls and shed light on related criminal activity.

Matt Shipman-NC State • futurity
Aug. 11, 2023 ~7 min

Elon Musk aims to turn Twitter into an 'everything app' – a social media and marketing scholar explains what that is and why it's not so easy to do

Everything apps offer a wide range of features, combining social media with personal finances. But creating the perfect everything app is no easy task.

Kristen Schiele, Associate Professor of Clinical Marketing, University of Southern California • conversation
Aug. 10, 2023 ~8 min

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