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Mathematician Steven Strogatz discusses his new book, Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World. Our modern world runs on math, from social media algorithms, package delivery, and weather prediction to medical imaging and machine learning.
Ars Technica
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MIT Technology Review
A polygraph tracks body signals such as heart rate and breathing, on the theory that lying changes them. The Pentagon's proposed Polygraph+ program would score those signals with machine learning and add standoff sensing, which reads those signals without touching the person. Experts are skeptical, since a racing pulse can signal nerves as easily as a lie, and tech-based lie detection has a long record of failure.
Ars Technica
Amazon's roaming Ring Robotics devices will debut in late 2026 and early 2027. Amazon is betting that many Ring customers will also want an AI-powered security drone and robot patrolling their homes or offices.
vulncheck.com
Seven months into Project Glasswing, VulnCheck has tracked 442 CVEs attributable to Anthropic, roughly 0.5% of all CVEs published this year, with only two identified as exploited in the wild. Of Anthropic’s 37,966 reported findings, only 7,349 (19.4%) have been made public and just 217 have been marked fixed.
Ars Technica
Researcher finds 35,000 Grok Build apps wide open to anyone who looked for them. Grok Build, the vibe-coding agent from SpaceXSI, is leaking data, some of it proprietary business information and other sensitive secrets, from thousands of its users, including the very same Elon Musk-owned company that offers the platform, new research shows.
The Decoder
OpenAI is opening up ChatGPT as a business platform: through a new Business Hub, companies can claim their profile, add product data, and track how users interact with them. "Business Agents" let eligible US e-commerce providers talk to customers directly inside ChatGPT.
