Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...
Tech Xplore

Humans and AI models show similar confusion when reading tricky program code

Researchers from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems have, for the first time, shown that ...
China Digital Times

Netizen Voices: Tencent’s Positive Energy Algorithm Task Force and the Perils of “Information Cocoons”

This week, a report at IT Home described recent corporate initiatives in the fight to promote "positive energy" and suppress "malicious" negativity online. (As China Media Project explains, "’Positive ...
salisburypost

Scott Huffman: DOGE: The catastrophic data leak threatening every American’s identity

Data breaches at big companies are bad. But a federal project called DOGE, led by Elon Musk, threatens something much worse: the personal information of every American could already be exposed. That’s ...
The New York Times

Republicans Take Aim at ‘Industry Behind the Curtain’ of College Prices

In letters to consultants and the College Board, House and Senate Judiciary leaders invoked antitrust law and asked how student data feeds pricing algorithms. By Ron Lieber Ron Lieber welcomes ...
KQED

North Bay Lawmaker Calls Out Trump for ‘Whitewashing’ National Parks

Bay Area Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Marin, has condemned President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to force national parks to remove historical material from public display as censorship and “pure ...
IEEE

Interpretable Cross-Modal Alignment Network for EEG Visual Decoding With Algorithm Unrolling

Abstract: Accurate decoding in electroencephalography (EEG) technology, particularly for rapid visual stimuli, remains challenging due to the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Additionally, existing ...
Reuters

Paris prosecutors say they requested information about algorithm, not private data, from Musk's X

PARIS, July 21 (Reuters) - Paris prosecutors requested information from social media platform X about its algorithm as part of a probe into organised gangs' possible tampering with an automated data ...