Cocaine toys with the mind, hijacking brain circuitry and encouraging repetitive behavior

Researchers have found that brain circuits are hijacked, leading to increasingly rigid and repetitive behavior. The brain circuit normally involved in selecting natural mouth and facial movements, but which is disproportionately taxed when behavior declines with repeated cocaine exposure. The new study by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that the striatum is … Read more

Russia sets its sights on Ukraine’s data centers as attacks disrupt internet access for 100,000 households

What just happened? It appears that Russia has followed in Iran’s footsteps and decided to target data centers in its hostilities. A Russian drone hit a business center in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Friday, killing four people and damaging a data center that Russia later confirmed as a target. The September 25 attack shocked … Read more

AWS CloudWatch Omni addresses the toughest question in agent AI: Why did the agent do that?

For decades, the observability industry has answered a fundamental question: Is it running? Agentic artificial intelligence breaks this model. An agent can return a clean response, meet its latency target, and not throw errors, but still give a customer the wrong answer, invoke the wrong tool, or rely on an outdated knowledge base. By any … Read more

OpenAI agents visited the UN website more than 16,000 times, bypassing a filter

According to an independent research report based on information from AI research firm Transluce, OpenAI’s autonomous AI agents repeatedly polled a UN website and used techniques that appeared to circumvent restrictions on retrieving publicly available data. The agents searched a public data hub run by UN Trade and Development, the trade arm of the United … Read more