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Evaluating Mexico’s New Cybersecurity Plan Explore an analysis of Mexico’s 2025–2030 National Cybersecurity Plan. Discover how Mexico is addressing critical threats like ransomware, organized crime, and AI-driven attack…
Semantically Similar, Logically Distinct: Diagnosing the Semantic-Answerability Gap in Table RAG arXiv:2607.17742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tables are a critical knowledge source in retrieval-augmented generation (…
Critical minerals and cyber operations Learn how critical minerals and rare earth elements (REEs) are evolving from commodities into strategic flashpoints. Explore the geopolitical risks of China’s refining dominance, t…
OkoBot: new sophisticated malware framework targets cryptocurrency users Kaspersky GReAT experts dissect the new OkoBot campaign targeting cryptocurrency users. This complex framework employs TookPS, exfiltrates seed ph…
Iran-Nexus TAG-182 Disseminates MarkiRAT Surveillance Tool Discover how Iranian-nexus threat cluster TAG-182 uses MarkiRAT malware and fake VPN/media apps to conduct cyber surveillance operations against domestic target…
NIST Researchers Discover a New Way to Whisk Alloys Together With Lasers NIST also improved how X-rays are used to study the atomic structure of metals in real time during 3D printing, allowing researchers to observe ho…
NIST Weighs In on the Mystery of the Gravitational Constant A NIST researcher has unveiled the results of a 10-year quest to measure the constant.
Nearly every Kindle is steeply discounted at Best Buy If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Kindle before school starts, or for your next vacation, now’s a good time to do it. As part of its Black Friday in July sa…
BIS warns stablecoins could weaken capital controls in emerging markets Researchers found dollar-backed stablecoins are less affected by capital controls than traditional bank deposits, raising new questions about monet…
New Project CAV3RN module abuses Outlook calendar events for C2 and DNS AAAA records for configuration recovery Kaspersky GReAT experts describe a new Project CAV3RN C2 module. It uses Outlook calendar for communication…
ColGraphRAG: Late-Interaction Evidence Retrieval for Multimodal GraphRAG arXiv:2607.16208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph-grounded multimodal question answering organizes text, tables, and images in a structured ev…
Evidence Interfaces Shape How Retrieval-Augmented Readers Use Support arXiv:2607.17108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In multi-hop RAG evaluation, a top-k answer score can hide two different failures: the retrieval wind…
Self-Modifying Lean Proof Agents with Verifier-Grounded Benchmark Coevolution arXiv:2607.17352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing effective Lean proof agents is a central challenge in formal mathematical reasoning…
Financial Audit Assistance using Misinformation Detection and Explanation arXiv:2607.17797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial statements (FS) such as Balance Sheet (BS), Income Statement (IS) and Cash-flow Stateme…
The Shared Discovery Paradox: How a One-Answer Rule Turns Better Information into Worse Search arXiv:2607.18045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizations often pool dispersed information into one ranking and then all…
International Agreements to Limit Frontier AI: Objectives and Exit arXiv:2607.16224v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An international agreement to limit AI development could be crucial to mitigate risks from AI. However…
The Failures of Marginal Influence-Based Attribution Methods for Global Time Series Explanations arXiv:2607.16236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Explainability methods for time series models predominantly produce flat…
High-accuracy Low-Bit KV-Cache Quantization via Local Distribution Restoration arXiv:2607.16248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context large language model inference relies on the KV cache to avoid redundant atte…
Seeing What Is Actually There: PriVE-Bench and PriVE-Tools for Counterfactual Evaluation of Agentic Visual Evidence in VLMs arXiv:2607.16311v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) often answer vi…
Monte Carlo Dropout Uncertainty and Entropy-Thresholded Selective Prediction for Architecture-Agnostic Brain Tumor MRI Triage arXiv:2607.16317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep networks now subtype brain tumors on M…
When to Use Which? Benchmarking Optimisers for Configurable Systems under Varying Budgets arXiv:2607.16476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software configuration tuning is crucial for optimising system performance, and…
Position: Explanation Stability Is a Property of the Model Method Pair, Not the Model arXiv:2607.16652v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This position paper argues that claims about explanation stability are scientifical…
Hardware Robustness of Sample-Based Quantum Diagonalization arXiv:2607.18196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sample-based Quantum Diagonalization (SQD) is a hybrid quantum-classical method that replaces variational opt…
The Dodona Protocol: A Living Design Science Experiment on Blockchain Oracles arXiv:2606.08012v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The oracle problem, broadly understood as the difficulty of reliably incorporating extern…
Smuggling charges against NIH virologists trigger political uproar Nature, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01995-7 Other researchers say that non-infectious viral samples in luggage posed no risk,…
The science of foresight: how to future-proof your research Nature, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02231-y Anticipating from the start the various ways a research programme can succeed or fail ca…
Prominent Salk Institute biologist to resign following sexual misconduct investigation Staffers complain that Salk allowed circadian rhythms researcher Satchidananda Panda to depart quietly, while the allegations and fi…
GoSerpent: a persistent threat evolves with sophisticated data collection and exfiltration Two-phase attacks with the GoSerpent backdoor, Stowaway RAT, ThumbcacheService and other tools aim to steal data from government…
AI Has Enhanced Iran’s Asymmetric Playbook During the 2026 Conflict Explore how Iran has utilized AI to enhance its asymmetric playbook during the 2026 conflict. Learn how AI acts as a force multiplier for Iranian cyber…
Why do astronauts’ bodies waste away? Space-station study points to mitochondria Nature, Published online: 16 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02089-0 Human cells cultured in microgravity produced fewer mitochondrial p…
Will making ‘replication studies’ easier to find help science self-correct? Nature, Published online: 16 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02175-3 Project on peer-review platform Pubpeer aims to make replication studies…
Exploring Hierarchical Interest Representation For Meta Ads Deep Funnel Optimization Hierarchical Interest Representation is a research area for Meta Ads. We’re exploring an upstream representation layer over the univer…
A Video Screen That Is Also a Camera Amazing : Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, however, managed to create a new type of pixel that can simultaneously do both. This hypercharged pixel, called a Fourier pixel,…
‘Holy grail’ of naked mole-rat research reveals how queens rule Nature, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02221-0 The simple chemical that keeps a mole-rat queen atop her throne — plus, how people a…
How to end poverty and protect Earth: inside the debate tearing up economics Nature, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02216-x The idea of prosperity without growth is gaining traction among researc…
Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world Nature, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02150-y Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Some researchers say th…
Why there needs to be a global debate on inequality Nature, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02147-7 Researchers have a responsibility to search for consensus on this crucial issue, both for future…
New Fabric Test Material Could Help Strengthen Domestic Supply Chain for Textiles and Clothing Researchers estimate that 56% of textiles can be recycled or recovered, but most don’t make it back into the domestic supply…
Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a stro…
Same government, more victims: Access Now calls for an urgent investigation into hacking of MEP Access Now joins more than 20 human rights organizations and individuals in condemning Pegasus spyware attack against Steli…
10 Years of Meta’s Commitment to Python This year marks Meta’s 10th consecutive year as a sponsor of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), the charitable organization dedicated to advancing, supporting, and protecting t…
From AI pilots to enterprise impact: Why execution is the new differentiator As the pace of change accelerates, organizations are moving quickly from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale transformation. Leaders are pr…
Risk Scenarios for the US’s Strategic Pivot The United States (US) is shifting toward a more force-driven security strategy primarily relying on military operations and economic pressure to counter transnational crimina…
Evolution of Chinese-Language Guarantee Telegram Marketplaces Chinese-language, Telegram-based “guarantee” marketplaces are increasingly popular among Chinese-speaking criminal groups despite the widely publicized shutd…
Emerging Enterprise Security Risks of AI Agentic AI adoption is accelerating rapidly as enterprise software and applications increasingly incorporate task-specific AI agents, enabling autonomous execution of complex tas…
Google DeepMind supports U.S. Department of Energy on Genesis: a national mission to accelerate innovation and scientific discovery Google DeepMind and the DOE partner on Genesis, a new effort to accelerate science with…
PriorProof: A Point-in-Time Measure of Technique Novelty for Formal Proofs arXiv:2607.16997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mathematicians distinguish proofs that explain, simplify, or introduce a nonstandard route, but…
Otap:Structure-Aware Optimal Transport for Evaluating Planning and Execution in Agent Trajectories arXiv:2607.17082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents solve tasks by generating trajectories that…
Learning to Detect Cross-Modal Negation: An Analysis of Latent Representations and an Attention-Based Solution arXiv:2607.17712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting high-level semantic concepts like negation across…
Logical Judgments Under Pressure: Diagnosing Syllogistic Stability with Learned Soft Prefixes arXiv:2607.18228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To test how correct logical judgments respond to learned context, we prepend…
Huge study finds first genetic clues for borderline personality disorder Nature, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02220-1 Largest genetic analysis of the condition so far finds 11 linked locations…
Briefing Chat: Sweet! Elusive sugar molecules found in space Nature, Published online: 17 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02263-4 Nature staff discuss the discovery of a four carbon ‘true sugar’ in interstellar space…
‘Explosive diarrhoea’ outbreak grips US: how researchers are hunting its source Nature, Published online: 16 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02225-w Cases have hit record levels, and scientists are racing to pinpoint…
When checking the URL isn’t enough: a Device Code Phishing attack via a Microsoft website The OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant specification was designed to streamline authentication for Smart TVs, IoT devices, and…
China's Noncombatant Evacuation Operations: 2005–2025 Explore the Insikt Group study on 37 Chinese noncombatant evacuation operations (NEOs) from 2005–2025, revealing how China leverages SOEs and civilian resources for…
Russia’s Defense-Based Economy Risks Forcing Putin to Fight Wars Western sanctions have tied Russia's elite patronage to the defense sector. Learn why this creates a domestic imperative for Putin to pursue perpetual war
Iran Expands Handala Brand to Physical Threats Iran's MOIS expands its Handala brand to hybrid cyber and physical threat operations, recruiting proxies to conduct attacks, espionage, and sabotage against US and Israeli…
State Digital Surveillance Risk Landscape Explore the state digital surveillance risk landscape. Learn how governments use spyware, AI, and network interception to monitor travelers and how to mitigate these risks.
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can try out Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that lets you create and explore worlds.
Threats to the 2026 FIFA World Cup Threat assessment for the 2026 FIFA World Cup (US, Mexico, Canada) covering organized crime, AI-powered cyber fraud, state espionage, and political influence operations.