Bleeping Computer

GhostTree Attack Abused Recursive Windows Junctions to Hide Malware

Most security teams think of NTFS junctions and symbolic links as niche file system features. They let one directory point to another, like a shortcut that the OS treats as real. They exist for ...
Mongabay

Taiwan’s tallest tree found with help of citizen science

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have confirmed Taiwan’s tallest known tree: an 84.1-meter (276-foot) Taiwania fir they named “the Heaven Sword of the Da’an River.” A ...
InfoQ

Shopify Reports 15X Faster Graphql Execution with Breadth First Engine

Shopify has introduced a redesigned GraphQL execution engine, internally called GraphQL Cardinal, that replaces traditional depth-first traversal with a breadth-first execution model, reporting ...
The New York Times

Woman With No Right Hand Is Pulled Over for Using Phone in Her Right Hand

Her case was, of course, dismissed. By Mark Walker In February, a sheriff’s deputy was working on traffic enforcement in Lake Worth Beach, Fla., when he stopped a 36-year-old woman named Kathleen ...
SiliconANGLE

Recursive Superintelligence raises $650M to build self-improving AI models

Recursive Superintelligence Inc., a startup that hopes to develop self-improving artificial intelligence models, launched today with $650 million in funding. Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund and Greycroft led ...
acm.org

Where Are the City Trees? Monitoring Urban Trees across the U.S. Using Generative AI

For years, conducting an urban tree inventory was a luxury only large, highly resourced cities could afford. A new AI-based approach not only brings this capability within reach to smaller cities but ...
IEEE

Subgame Pruning: Efficiently Solving Two-Player Imperfect Information Games by Accelerated Public Tree Traversal in CFR

Abstract: Counterfactual Regret Minimization is the state-of-the-art algorithm for solving imperfect information games, yet it struggles against scalability. While existing pruning techniques ...
Forbes

The Most Important Idea In AI: Recursive Self Improvement

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Sviokla covers GenAI/AI's impact on commerce and society. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Without Pointers or Recursion Using C#

A decision tree regression system incorporates a set of if-then rules to predict a single numeric value. Decision tree regression is rarely used by itself because it overfits the training data, and so ...
ag.purdue

AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest ...
WKOW

Humane Society using Christmas trees for animal habitats

MADISON (WKOW) -- The Dane County Humane Society's Wildlife Center has found a unique way to repurpose Christmas trees for wildlife enrichment. Paige Pederson, wildlife operations supervisor at the ...