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Tech Xplore / AI agents open door to new hacking threats

Cybersecurity experts are warning that artificial intelligence agents, widely considered the next frontier in the generative AI revolution, could wind up getting hijacked and doing the dirty work for hackers.

Nov 11, 2025 in Security
Tech Xplore / Engineered living materials with bacterial spores show promise for self-healing and sustainability

Bacterial spores—the hardy survival structures formed by certain bacterial species—are proving to be a game changer in the field of engineered living materials (ELMs). By embedding Bacillus spores within ELMs, Jeong-Joo ...

Nov 11, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Why companies don't share AV crash data, and how they could

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been tested as taxis for decades in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and around the world, and trucking companies have enormous incentives to adopt them.

Nov 11, 2025 in Business
Tech Xplore / Small digital frictions can slow the spread of misinformation

New research from the University of Copenhagen points to a simple yet effective method for combating misinformation on social media: make it slightly harder to share content.

Nov 11, 2025 in Internet
Tech Xplore / Microsoft finds security flaw in AI chatbots that could expose conversation topics

Your conversations with AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini may not be as private as you think they are. Microsoft has revealed a serious flaw in the large language models (LLMs) that power these AI services, ...

Nov 10, 2025 in Security
Tech Xplore / Popular AI models aren't ready to safely power robots, study warns

Robots powered by popular artificial intelligence models are currently unsafe for general purpose real-world use, according to new research from King's College London and Carnegie Mellon University.

Nov 10, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / AI evaluates texts without bias—until the source is revealed

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used not only to generate content but also to evaluate it. They are asked to grade essays, moderate social media content, summarize reports, screen job applications and much more.

Nov 10, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / New recharge-to-recycle reactor turns battery waste into new lithium feedstock

As global electric vehicle adoption accelerates, end-of-life battery packs are quickly becoming a major waste stream. Lithium is costly to mine and refine, and most current recycling methods are energy- and chemical-intensive, ...

Nov 10, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Sweat-powered sticker turns your drinking cup into a health sensor

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed an electronic sticker that can monitor a person's vitamin C levels using the sweat from their fingertips—no blood draws, lab visits or batteries ...

Nov 10, 2025 in Consumer & Gadgets
Tech Xplore / Security flaws in portable genetic sequencers risk leaking private DNA data

Portable genetic sequencers used around the world to sequence DNA have critical, previously unreported security vulnerabilities that could reveal or alter genetic information without detection, according to a new study.

Nov 10, 2025 in Software
Tech Xplore / Engineered randomness enhances connection speed and precision in next-generation wireless systems

The next generation of wireless communication will move into signal frequencies even higher than those of today's 5G systems, allowing signals to carry vastly more data at much higher speeds. These high-frequency bands, expected ...

Nov 10, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Green alternative for light-emitting materials in displays uses plant waste and amino acids

Scientists have devised a way to create a green alternative to the light-emitting materials often used in TV, smartphones and other display technologies.

Nov 9, 2025 in Engineering