TechSpot

Mozilla says Microsoft is using Copilot and Edge to tighten its grip on Windows

Editor's take: As Microsoft builds Copilot AI deeper into Windows, the move is rekindling debate over how much control any one company should exercise over the computing environment that so many ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Simulated Annealing Optimization Using C# or Python

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...
The Next Web

The AI industry’s model and agent skill repositories are full of malware. The infrastructure built to accelerate development is now the vector for compromising it.

Hugging Face hosts 352,000 unsafe model issues. ClawHub's registry contains 341 malicious AI agent skills. The AI supply chain is now the most attractive target in software security.
eLife

Unbend, correction of local beam-induced sample motion in cryo-EM images using a 3D spline model

Movie alignment software uses a 3D spline model to capture beam-induced motion in cryo-electron microscopy movie frames, correct local sample distortions, and improve two-dimensional template matching ...
ascopubs.org

A novel, noninvasive, multimodal screening test for the early detection of precancerous lesions and colorectal cancers using an artificial intelligence–based algorithm.

Contrasting comprehensive genomic profiles of adenocarcinomas of the appendix in younger versus older patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does ...