Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books

The blog recommended that users learn to train their own AI models by downloading the Harry Potter dataset and then uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage. It included example models based on a ...
GitHub

kentsislab/proteomegenerator3

kentsislab/proteomegenerator3 is a bioinformatics pipeline that can be used to create sample-specific, proteogenomics search databases from long-read RNAseq data. It takes in a samplesheet and aligned ...
IEEE

Machine Learning based Predictive Analytics of Student Retention Using Transcript Data

Abstract: The high dropout rates in Computer Science programs pose a major challenge to higher education institutions, especially in developing nations like Pakistan, where economic constraints and ...
The New York Times

Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still new, a professor friend had a ...
ZME Science

Scientists Use AI to Create First-ever Functional Synthetic Life, Because What Could Go Wrong?

While the world was busy arguing over AI-generated art and essays, a team at the Arc Institute and Stanford University was training AI on a much more complex language: the code of life itself. In a ...
InfoWorld

What is the future for MySQL?

In May of 2025, MySQL celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not many technology projects go strong for three decades, let alone at the level of use that MySQL enjoys. MySQL is listed at #2 on the ...