Britain’s greatest naval hero left a riddle with his 'final' words

Horatio Nelson is famous for besting Napoleon at sea. But what did he mean by ‘Kiss me, Hardy’—his supposed last words?

Black Forest Labs' new Self-Flow technique makes training multimodal AI models 2.8x more efficient

This efficiency makes it viable for enterprises to move beyond generic off-the-shelf solutions and develop specialized models ...

Arduino VENTUNO Q with Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 for edge AI and autonomous robotics announced

Qualcomm’s Arduino has announced the upcoming launch of Arduino VENTUNO Q, a platform designed for edge AI, robotics, and ...
Security Boulevard

The Developer’s Practical Guide to Passwordless Authentication in 2026

Why Passwords Are Still a Developer's Problem in 2026. The case against password-based authentication is well-established in the IAM community, but the practical implications for ...

Microsoft Builds A Compact AI Model That Decides When To Think

Microsoft's Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B uses careful data curation and selective reasoning to compete with models trained on ...
eWeek

GPT-5.4 Is Here: OpenAI’s ‘Most Capable and Efficient’ Model for Professional Work

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, calling it its most capable and efficient AI model yet, with AI agents, computer control, improved reasoning, and a 1M-token context.

Microsoft open-sources multimodal reasoning model with 15B parameters

The company mainly trained Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B on open-source data. The data included images and text-based descriptions of the objects depicted in those images. Before it started training the ...
eLife

Pupil size reveals the perceptual quality and effortless nature of synesthesia

This study used pupillometry to provide an objective assessment of a form of synesthesia in which people see additional color when reading numbers. It provides convincing evidence that subjective ...