This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, ...

AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

Tools that promise to detect AI writing can be dubious, but educators and publishers are using them anyway.

New platform speeds bacterial gene mapping for better biotech design

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a platform that pinpoints genetic ...

AI method reveals hidden patterns in microbial communities in the Warnow Estuary

Microbial communities are highly sensitive to environmental changes, yet their enormous diversity makes it difficult to ...
PCMag

Can Your Clothes Really Break AI Surveillance? How Hackers Are Outsmarting Facial Recognition

At Black Hat, a hacker revealed how printing "adversarial patterns" on everyday clothing can poison facial recognition ...

Scientists Trained An AI Model In DNA—And It Invented 16 New Viruses

Scientists are worried about how smart DNA-trained artificial intelligence models could get—and that they could become a ...

Your DNA Isn't Just a Double Helix. Scientists Just Found What Else It's Hiding

One of the most iconic visual representations in biological science is the double helix – the twisting, twin-stranded ladder ...
GitHub

SEAM: systematic explanation of attribution-based mechanisms for regulatory genomics

Seitz, E.E., McCandlish, D.M., Kinney, J.B., and Koo P.K. Uncovering the Mechanistic Landscape of Regulatory DNA with Deep Learning. bioRxiv, October 8, 2025. https ...
Frontiers

Synsor: a tool for alignment-free detection of engineered DNA sequences

DNA sequences of nearly any desired composition, length, and function can be synthesized to alter the biology of an organism for purposes ranging from the bioproduction of therapeutic compounds to ...