Classic cybersecurity tools are nearly powerless against semantic attacks. Signature detection, hashing, and code audits all depend on identifying explicit changes in code or data, but meaning-level ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

The Allahabad High Court has directed trial courts in Uttar Pradesh to write judgments in either Hindi or English, but not in a mix of both languages. This decision was made to ensure clarity for ...

After 150 years of mystery, neuroscience has finally cracked the code on how language works in the brain—and the answer is surprisingly elegant.

The Michigan State Board of Education approved new state sex education standards that include instruction on gender identity ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Transformers are a neural network (NN) architecture, or model, that excels at processing sequential data by weighing the ...

The phrase “linguistic justice” can take on several meanings, but at Pitt, it means meeting students where they’re at.

While computer-use models are still too slow and unreliable, browser agents are already becoming production-ready, even in ...

In foreign employment, according to official data, the number of Sri Lankans migrant workers going abroad for work was more than 300,000 in 2024, the second time in the past decade that such numbers ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming every sector of the global economy. From finance and healthcare to logistics, education, and national defense, large language models (LLMs) and other foundation ...

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...