New UEFI flaw enables pre-boot attacks on motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock

The UEFI firmware implementation in some motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock is vulnerable to direct memory ...
IEEE

Multimodal Emotion Recognition Using Computer Vision: A Comprehensive Approach

Abstract: Real-time understanding and response to human emotions have become critical in today’s connected world of prevalent human-computer interaction. This study presents a novel approach to ...
IEEE

Contactless Infant Height Measurement for Enhanced Early Detection of Stunting Using Computer Vision Techniques

Abstract: Stunting, a critical health issue affecting child growth and development, is prevalent in developing countries and is characterized by significantly reduced height for age. Traditional ...
techtimes

AI Chatbots Can be Tricked to Bypass Safety Features by Using Poetry, New Study Reveals

Speaking or writing like a poet is no longer used for daily conversations in this day and age, but a new study discovered that using poetry to talk to an AI chatbot could bypass its safety guardrails.
GitHub

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model (SLM) designed specifically for computer use. With only 7 billion parameters, Fara-7B is an ultra-compact Computer Use Agent (CUA) that ...
Bleeping Computer

ASUS warns of new critical auth bypass flaw in AiCloud routers

ASUS has released new firmware to patch nine security vulnerabilities, including a critical authentication bypass flaw in routers with AiCloud enabled. AiCloud is a cloud-based remote access feature ...
SiliconANGLE

Microsoft debuts Fara-7B, a small ‘computer-use’ model that runs natively on PCs

Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers ...