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Injured veterans say Meta's AI-powered glasses are a 'gamechanger' for people with disabilities - as it allows them to send texts and get directions by just using their voice

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Inside the somber birthday of Rob Reiner's heartbroken daughter Romy: Pictured for first time since parents' murders... she seeks solace at the beach with boyfriend and family by her side Donald Trump meets with Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago as president snaps at reporter: 'What a stupid question' SARAH VINE: The miasma of gloom has finally lifted over the royals. How sad Harry and Meghan can't see past their own psychodramas to allow their children to join this happy band Fast moving winter storm and possible'bomb cyclone' set to sweep across the country as 40 million Americans are placed on alert Redemption for Jake Paul's fiancee as Jutta Leerdam bounces back after heartbreaking fall at Olympic trials FBI gives update on daycare accused of $4MILLION taxpayer fraud as Kash Patel says it's the'tip of the iceberg' and vows to'follow the money and protect children' A Boy Scout vanished in the mountains then stumbled into a police station 12 years later. The tale gripped social media... but then the truth came out Shopping mall was once the jewel in Democrat-run city's crown in its 90s heyday but now it's a ghost town and up for sale Brigitte Bardot's final social media posts show her doing what she loved and looking remarkably healthy without the care she relied upon in her final years - just days before her death Nashville's brutal secret RANKING of influencers - revealed: From the'cougar' to the country music WAG with an ugly nickname... and the star whose marriage is facing WILD accusations Bryson DeChambeau gives stark update on his LIV Golf future after Brooks Koepka's shock exit I've been a mechanic for 50 years... here are the cars you should desperately avoid: 'Blowing up' I'm a psychiatrist who almost never prescribes antidepressants. My drug-free treatment has a 70% success rate... Injured veterans say Meta's AI-powered glasses are a'gamechanger' for people with disabilities - as it allows them to send texts and get directions by just using their voice The Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses and newer Oakley Vanguard glasses might look like a standard pair of chunky specs. But in reality, these cutting-edge wearables are a hands-free device that lets users seamlessly interact with AI controls.


DNA-DetectLLM: Unveiling AI-Generated Text via a DNA-Inspired Mutation-Repair Paradigm

Zhu, Xiaowei, Ren, Yubing, Fang, Fang, Tan, Qingfeng, Wang, Shi, Cao, Yanan

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has blurred the line between AI-generated and human-written text. This progress brings societal risks such as misinformation, authorship ambiguity, and intellectual property concerns, highlighting the urgent need for reliable AI-generated text detection methods. However, recent advances in generative language modeling have resulted in significant overlap between the feature distributions of human-written and AI-generated text, blurring classification boundaries and making accurate detection increasingly challenging. To address the above challenges, we propose a DNA-inspired perspective, leveraging a repair-based process to directly and interpretably capture the intrinsic differences between human-written and AI-generated text. Building on this perspective, we introduce DNA-DetectLLM, a zero-shot detection method for distinguishing AI-generated and human-written text. The method constructs an ideal AI-generated sequence for each input, iteratively repairs non-optimal tokens, and quantifies the cumulative repair effort as an interpretable detection signal. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art detection performance and exhibits strong robustness against various adversarial attacks and input lengths. Specifically, DNA-DetectLLM achieves relative improvements of 5.55% in AUROC and 2.08% in F1 score across multiple public benchmark datasets. Code and data are available at https://github.com/Xiaoweizhu57/DNA-DetectLLM.


Hidden Pentagon records reveal patterns of failure in deadly U.S. airstrikes

The Japan Times

Shortly before 3 a.m. on July 19, 2016, U.S. Special Operations forces bombed what they believed were three Islamic State (IS) group "staging areas" on the outskirts of Tokhar, a riverside hamlet in northern Syria. They reported 85 fighters killed. In fact, they hit houses far from the front line, where farmers, their families and other local people sought nighttime sanctuary from bombing and gunfire. More than 120 villagers were killed. In early 2017 in Iraq, an American war plane struck a dark-colored vehicle, believed to be a car bomb, stopped at an intersection in the Wadi Hajar neighborhood of West Mosul. Actually, the car had been bearing not a bomb but a man named Majid Mahmoud Ahmed, his wife and their two children, who were fleeing the fighting nearby. They and three other civilians were killed. In November 2015, after observing a man dragging an "unknown heavy object" into an IS "defensive fighting position," U.S. forces struck a building in Ramadi, Iraq. A military review found that the object was actually "a person of small stature" -- a child -- who died in the strike. None of these deadly failures resulted in a finding of wrongdoing. These cases are drawn from a hidden Pentagon archive of the American air war in the Middle East since 2014. The trove of documents -- the military's own confidential assessments of more than 1,300 reports of civilian casualties, obtained by The New York Times -- lays bare how the air war has been marked by deeply flawed intelligence, rushed and often imprecise targeting and the deaths of thousands of civilians, many of them children, a sharp contrast to the U.S. government's image of war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. The documents show, too, that despite the Pentagon's highly codified system for examining civilian casualties, pledges of transparency and accountability have given way to opacity and impunity. In only a handful of cases were the assessments made public. Not a single record provided includes a finding of wrongdoing or disciplinary action. Fewer than a dozen condolence payments were made, even though many survivors were left with disabilities requiring expensive medical care. Documented efforts to identify root causes or lessons learned are rare. The air campaign represents a fundamental transformation of warfare that took shape in the final years of the Obama administration, amid the deepening unpopularity of the forever wars that had claimed more than 6,000 American service members. The United States traded many of its boots on the ground for an arsenal of aircraft directed by controllers sitting at computers, often thousands of kilometers away. President Barack Obama called it "the most precise air campaign in history." This was the promise: America's "extraordinary technology" would allow the military to kill the right people while taking the greatest possible care not to harm the wrong ones. The IS caliphate ultimately crumbled under the weight of American bombing.


Societies in the automation era – Idees

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Artificial Intelligence is a technology used to plan for the future. Planification implies intelligibility, calculability, and systematization. The future as a concept has been, in occidental cultures, closely tied to monotheism and the development of a linear narrative about societies, with a predicted end of the world, where individuals end up either in paradise or hell. This was a radical change from the narratives of classic cultures, where there was no notion of the past or prehistory, but rather a narrative of a cultural, god-given origin similar to the present. It did not anticipate change in the manner of future narratives. Future narratives see the time to come as a time when evolution happens, when neither clothes nor context nor social habits remain the same. With the development of Protestantism and capitalism, the future became more than a point in time when the story would end. It became an unwritten point of opportunity to be shaped by human beings.


Top AI Ted Talks to Watch for Acquiring Better Technology Outlook

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In a fast paced world where people desire more in less, Ted Talks are evolving the landscape of learning and spreading education and awareness among people who need it. This platform of education is transforming lectures into interesting interactions consuming less time as several professionals are unable to attend day-long conferences to educate and update themselves. Moreover, in terms of technology or particularly artificial intelligence (AI), the introduction of TED Talks is also beneficial with regard to money owing to its free availability online. Presenters, who are passionate technology experts, take on the stage and speak with such energy and momentum where their enthusiasm contagiously boosts up youngsters. Therefore, here we have brought you the top AI Ted Talks that will elevate your reasoning and education about the technology.


Father of robotics team member killed in Herat attack

Al Jazeera

The father of one of the Afghan girls who caught the world's attention when trying to attend a robotics contest in the United States was killed on Tuesday in an ISIL-claimed attack at a mosque in Herat. Fatemah Qaderyan, the 14-year-old Afghan robotics team captain, is "angry and grieving" following the deadly attack on Shia worshippers, the team's coach, Ali Reza Mehrban, told Al Jazeera. "Fatemah's father could not survive the injuries and lost his life," Ali Reza Mehrban, the team's director, told Al Jazeera. At least 32 people were killed in the attack, and more than 60 were wounded. "[Fatemah] is very angry and is not eating or speaking to anyone, she is going through a very difficult time," Mehrban said.


Taliban uses drones to film attacks in Afghanistan

Al Jazeera

The Afghan Taliban has uploaded a drone footage showing a suicide bomber driving into a police base and blowing it up in the southern Helmand province. The fighters say the footage proves that they can now deploy drones as an "addition to their sophisticated possessions of advanced technologies". The 23-minute-long video, which begins with a self-proclaimed suicide bomber speaking in front of an explosives-rigged Humvee, was released on Saturday appears to be authentic, according to the Afghan defence ministry. "The remote-controlled drones to capture footage of their [Taliban] fighters conducting attacks is nothing but to instill fear among people and to indicate how far they can get in defeating us, but in fact, using a drone is not something they can call an achievement," Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the defence ministry, told Al Jazeera by telephone. "You can get a drone anywhere, in any shop. They found or bought one, and used it."

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TALIBAN LEADER DEAD Afghan spy agency says Mansour killed in airstrike

FOX News

Afghan authorities confirmed Sunday that the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour, was killed in a U.S. drone strike. The National Directorate of Security said in a statement that Mansour was killed at 3:45 p.m. local time Saturday. The Associated Press, citing a statement from the spy agency, said the attack took place in Baluchistan province, in southwestern Pakistan. "The attack happened on the main road while he was in his vehicle," the statement said. Mullah Abdul Rauf, a senior Taliban commander, told the Associated Press earlier Sunday that Mansour was indeed killed in the drone strike.


Taliban leader killed in US drone strike

Associated Press

The Afghan government and a senior Taliban commander confirmed Sunday that the extremist group's leader, Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour, has been killed in a U.S. drone strike. Mullah Abdul Rauf, who recently reconciled with Mansour after initially rebelling against his ascension to the leadership, told The Associated Press that Mansour died in the strike late Friday "in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area." Afghanistan's intelligence agency announced that Mansour had been killed in an air attack Saturday afternoon. In a statement, the National Directorate of Security, as the secret service is known, said the attack took place in Baluchistan province, in southwestern Pakistan. It is believed to have been the first drone strike on Baluchistan, which could explain why Mansour was traveling in an unarmored car without a convoy, decoys or bodyguards.


Senior Taliban commander confirms death of group's Afghan leader - VIDEO: Taliban leader Mullah Mansour 'likely' killed in US airstrike

FOX News

A senior Taliban commander confirmed early Sunday the death of the group's Afghan leader Mullah Mansour in a U.S. drone strike. A U.S. official told Fox News Saturday that Mansour was "likely" killed in the strike, while the White House is awaiting official confirmation of Mansour's death before releasing their own statement about the strike. President Obama authorized the strike, which occurred at about 6 a.m. Mansour was traveling in a vehicle when the strike occurred. It was carried out my multiple unmanned aircraft operated by U.S. Special Operations Forces.