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Claude reportedly bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter counts without being asked, but did not access the voter registration system or change or download voting records. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Anthropic's AI model accessed US voter data: Report

Anthropic's Claude AI model bypassed a paywall and accessed publicly available voter data in the U.S. state of Georgia without human authorization, Axios reported on Sunday.

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An AI model used fake identities to seek malware approval during a simulated network test, persisting even after warnings that it was engaging real developers, according to an internal review. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face

In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans.

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A battery-free temperature sensor harvests energy from electrical wiring’s magnetic fields, storing enough charge to keep operating for 24 hours during a power outage. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Ambient radiation used to power battery-free temperature sensor

Researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of Michigan have reported the creation of a graphene-based energy harvester that uses ambient radiation to run ultralow-power temperature...

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Be My AI’s answers ran more than 10 times longer than blind users’ questions, leaving users listening for useful details and asking again to get to the point. @UofMaryland techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

App's AI 'eyes' for blind users fall short, researchers find

A blind man points his phone at a pan and asks, "Are the sausages brown yet?" The app he's using responds out loud that some spots are still slightly pink. So a bit later, he takes another photo and...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 25

Drone motor signatures enabled make-and-model identification with up to 98.52% accuracy outdoors at ranges up to 15 meters—without transmitting a detection signal. @fiu techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Engineers develop stealthy, low-cost tech to detect drones

Florida International University researchers have developed a new way to detect incoming drones using the unique magnetic signatures generated by their motors—offering a detection method that is...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 25

Mouse-muscle actuators achieve up to 11 times the range of motion of earlier systems with comparable muscle amounts, pairing lab-grown tissue with soft hydrogel scaffolds. @ETH_en @NatureComms techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Lab-grown mouse muscles enable tiny robots to jump, swim, walk and grasp

Lab-grown skeletal muscle tissue can contract, but the movement is often so slight that it is barely visible. This poses a problem for biohybrid robots designed to move using living muscles. Resear...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 25

A porous material captured rare earth elements despite a 100-fold excess of iron, with uptake falling only about 0.3% in one test. @RiceUniversity @ACS_AMI techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Engineered porous material recovers valuable rare earth elements from industrial wastewater

The rare earth elements that help power electric vehicles, wind turbines, medical imaging machines and other advanced technologies may be hiding in an unlikely place: industrial wastewater.

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 24

Some 1950s AI systems deliberately used randomness to mimic human creativity, valuing strange answers that today’s chatbots are often designed to suppress. @MIT techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Q&A: How AI came to model the 'messy' human mind

Generative artificial intelligence models are rooted in ideas of mid-20th-century engineers who thought some amount of irrationality was essential for a machine that could think like a human,...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 24

Copper made up about 90% of particles captured at 1,500 rpm from an aluminum–copper mixture, but the total amount recovered remained low in laboratory tests. @GoUMaine techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Researchers develop new way to reduce metal waste in manufacturing

Manufacturing aircraft components, battery materials, cutting tools, biomedical implants and other precision-engineered parts often involves metals in powder form.

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 24

A wearable system captured 100 hours of human activity for potential humanoid robot training, pairing first-person video with reconstructed body motion and recorded finger movements. @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Wearable system captures human activity data for robot training

Humanoid robots, robotic systems with a body shape that resembles that of humans, could tackle various chores and everyday manual tasks. To successfully complete these tasks, however, the robots...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 24

Two AI agents disabled or weakened their own safety monitors during coding tasks, and one later denied removing its monitor; the cause remains unexplained. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their own safety monitors

OpenAI has revealed that two of its artificial intelligence agents disabled or weakened systems built to catch them misbehaving, with one later denying it had done so.

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 24

An implantable chip distinguishes cognitive and emotional states from human brain recordings using under 200 microwatts—a fraction of the power many implantable neural-interface systems require. @epfl_en @IEEEXplore techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Low-power neural chip reads brain signals to identify cognitive and emotional states

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a therapeutic technique that delivers electrical pulses to specific areas of the brain via an implant to modulate neural activity. It is already widely used for...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 23

A video deepfake detector used 143 times less computing power than existing models, achieving near-perfect accuracy on a test library of 1,000 online videos containing deepfakes. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

AI deepfakes are getting more realistic. Scientists developed a better way to spot them

Hundreds of the nation's computer scientists gathered for a conference in Denver last fall, and Tuan Tran had a big test for them: Could they tell the difference between the real Brad Pitt and an...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 23

An anode-free lithium coin cell retained 90% capacity after 200 cycles with a silver-based additive that helps stabilize its internal interfaces. @hkust @NatureComms techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

No lithium metal anode to start? Silver-based additive helps stabilize next-generation batteries

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a dynamic integrated interface engineering strategy that enhances the energy density and stability of...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 23

The world’s first touchscreen built into a garment displays video on a flexible sleeve, with light output and touch response nearly unchanged after 50 detergent washes. @NUSingapore @nature techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Researchers thread the world's first touchscreen into a garment

Researchers at the National University of Singapore's College of Design and Engineering (CDE) have developed a fiber that functions as pixels and senses touch at the same time, integrating 54 of them...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 23

AI-assisted detection of PHP flaws pushed some European and U.S. websites temporarily offline as operators rushed to fix vulnerabilities that could let attackers execute code remotely. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Some websites go dark as operators address an AI-detected flaw in a web programming language

An AI-assisted discovery of vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language led governments and other organizations in Europe and the U.S. to take their websites offline temporarily Wednesday...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 22

A hands-free system recreates scents from data sent online, with 14 volunteers identifying individual smells correctly about 73% of the time in lab tests. @ScienceAdvances techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Something smells different as scientists send aromas over the internet

One day, you may be able to easily smell what you are looking at when browsing online. Sending smells over the internet has long been a dream, and while it may seem far-fetched, researchers have now...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 22

AI agents invented games on virtual islands without assigned tasks, improvising versions of bowling, basketball and juggling during 30 hours of exploration. @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Strand AI on a desert island, and it starts playing and inventing games

AI agents tend to do things when we give them specific commands, such as analyzing data and answering questions. But what would they do if left to their own devices?

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 22

AI can generate art in seconds without years of training, but a paper argues that creativity’s value also lies in how the process changes people. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

AI creates art in seconds, but creative growth still matters, paper argues

As artificial intelligence becomes capable of producing sophisticated art in seconds, a new paper challenges us to rethink what makes human creativity valuable. The paper argues that while AI can...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 22

Brain-inspired circuits could process information faster with a fraction of mainstream chips’ energy, offering a potential route to lower-power AI data centers. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Building brain-inspired semiconductor chips for smarter, greener data centers

With artificial intelligence (AI) data centers consuming electricity at a growing rate, identifying a sustainable computing solution to offset these massive community and environmental disruptors is...

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