Lead scientist of China’s thorium reactor project died working on the computer

Death of nuclear physicist Xu Hongjie came just weeks before the project he led achieved a breakthrough in fourth-generation ...
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ArXiv Blocks AI-Generated Survey Papers After 'Flood' of Trashy Submissions

Preprint repository ArXiv is cracking down on survey papers after AI tools make it easy to mass-produce low-quality ...
Tech Xplore

Student trust in AI coding tools grows briefly, then levels off with experience

How much do undergraduate computer science students trust chatbots powered by large language models like GitHub Copilot and ...
UC San Diego Today

How Can Computer Science Educators Teach Students to Calibrate Trust in GenAI Programming Tools

To help students calibrate their trust and expectations of AI assistants, computer science educators should provide opportunities for students to use AI programming assistants for tasks with a range ...

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...
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How GenAI Became a Disruptive Force in CS Higher Education

Computer science higher education must embrace GenAI and reinvent teaching methods and learning materials, or risk becoming ...
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Big Tech Makes Cal State Campuses Its AI Training Ground

The California State University system is teaming with Big Tech to become the nation’s “first and largest AI-empowered” ...