Investigative interviews are key to solving crimes – should AI be helping police with their inquiries?

The way a police interview is conducted affects the credibility of everything that follows in the criminal justice process.
Nature

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

Science relies on peer review, but the process can drag. To fix this, in July 2024, the journal Biology Open trialled something unconventional: paying their reviewers. In the six-month experiment, ...
Communications of the ACMOpinion

Hidden Prompts in Manuscripts Exploit AI-Assisted Peer Review

Moving forward requires coordinated technical, policy, and educational responses. An outright ban on AI in peer review, as is ...

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ...
Computerworld

Industry

Nextcloud CEO: Open source moves from 'a nerdy audience' to the geopolitical stage Frank Karlitschek, head of the German software vendor, talked about the company’s decision to help develop the ...
acm.org

Communications of the ACM

Unlearned parameters exhibit a correlation with retrained parameters via contraction mapping that facilitates the approximation of unlearned parameters with minimal gradient reliance. Tao Huang, ...