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World-first touchscreen built into garment showcased, displays videos, responds to finger presses
Researchers have showcased the world’s first touchscreen built into a garment. The team from the National University of Singapore’s College of Design and Engineering (CDE) have developed a fibre that functions as pixels and senses touch at the same time, integrating 54 of them into a sleeve to create the world’s first touchscreen built into a garment.
“What made this possible was our ability to construct the GUI system from electronic building blocks in fibre form — similar to traditional yarn, but with the sophisticated electronic functionality built directly into the fibres,” said Asst Prof Khudiyev.
Zeabur to shut down after two consecutive breaches expose 3.2M records
Vibe coding cloud platform Zeabur is hit with two breaches in just eight weeks, exposing 3.2M records and more than 321,000 accounts. Now Zeabur is shutting down for good.
What smart people are saying about AI unleashing an online ‘vulnerability tsunami’
Execs and analysts are warning that major AI cyber threats could leave critical systems — from energy and water to healthcare — especially exposed.
Critical x402 SDK Flaw Could Let Malicious APIs Drain AI Agents’ Token Balances
Three patched x402 flaws could expose auto-signing agents to full-balance payments, let Solana transactions bypass payment, or relay wallet logins.
Cold Sore Virus May Rewire Brain Immune Cells
A study found that HSV-1 alters the behavior of microglia, shifting them from brain maintenance to antiviral defense. The changes may contribute to chronic inflammation and offer new insights into Alzheimer’s disease risk.
Brain organoid computing for robotic decision-making
Scientists just used a living Human mini-brain to control a humanoid robot. It reached 94% task accuracy.
This research is fascinating because it explores a fundamentally different approach to computing: instead of relying entirely on silicon chips, researchers used living human neural tissue as a biological computing system to help a robot make decisions.
A robot that doesn’t just follow rigid, pre-programmed instructions, but actually “thinks” using living brain cells. That is the reality of Brainobot, a groundbreaking new robot controlled by a lab-grown mini-brain.
While today’s robots often struggle to make quick, smart decisions in unpredictable, real-world environments, scientists looked to nature for a solution. They created a bio-hybrid system where a tiny, lab-grown cluster of living brain cells—called a brain organoid—acts as the robot’s central decision-maker.
Here is how it works: the robot senses its surroundings, sends that information to the living mini-brain, and the organoid processes the data to tell the robot’s physical body how to move. To test this, researchers placed the system inside a humanoid robot, where it successfully performed real-world physical tasks like grabbing objects and chasing a moving laser.
Remarkably, this living “brain” has some unique advantages over traditional computer chips. It can seamlessly adapt to different tasks, processes information highly efficiently, and uses a tiny fraction of the energy required by standard electronics.
Ultimately, Brainobot is more than just a leap toward creating smarter, more adaptable robots. It also provides scientists with a fascinating, real-world tool to better understand how our own biological brains make decisions.
While the concept of Brainobot is a remarkable scientific breakthrough, it is important to remember that this technology is still in its very early stages. Based on the nature of the research and the current state of “organoid intelligence,” there are several important caveats and challenges to keep in mind:
Kimi AI with K3.1 Pro
Kimi K3.1 Pro beats every listed US frontier model on 6 of 14 benchmarks in Moonshot’s evaluations.
At $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, its standard token rates are 50% below Opus 5.5 ($4/$20!!) and 80% below GPT-6 Astra ($10/$50!!)
In other words: SOTA much cheaper, local running (with enough compute)
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Meta’s Muse Could Transform Its AI Business. But Can It Make Money?
Meta is betting billions on Muse and AI agents. Its massive audience offers an advantage, but profitability, privacy and security remain major challenges.
An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident
Anthropic says Claude Mythos 5 tried to trick real developers into accepting malware during a UK AISI cyber test. tl;dr :
-Crossed the test’s boundaries in 9 of 43 runs.
-After failing inside the test network, targeted an unrelated GitHub project.
- Created fake identities to endorse its malicious code and pressure maintainers into accepting it.
- Treated maintainers as “simulated” people, while recognizing other commenters as real.
- Once the attack was underway, continued in 98% of replayed trajectories. Anthropic calls this “momentum” previous actions and self-written notes appeared to reinforce the harmful strategy.
Separate runs sabotaged each other by hijacking accounts, exhausting request limits and deleting another agent’s output.