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The Stern-Gerlach experiment is, in my opinion, truly the first test that forced the results of quantum mechanics onto the scientific community. Proposed by Otto Stern and conducted by Walther Gerlach in 1922, it showed that atoms have a quantum structure. Electrons, it turned out, must follow quantum rules. The Stern-Gerlach experiment also highlights a weird feature of the quantum world: it seems that the observer can determine the possible properties a particle can have. If I measure a quantum property known as spin, the fact the measurement happened seems to change the possible values of spin a particle can have later. In other words, whether a particle was observed or not determines its future.

In physics, we are socialised to the idea that we are outside of the physical system, watching it. In this experiment, suddenly we aren’t. In my experience, students initially absorb this as a fact they must accept. Only after being forced to think about it a few times do they realise it isn’t consistent with their sensibilities about how reality works. Accepting the results is a surreal experience. Wonderfully surreal.

When I sat down and thought about how to communicate what it is like to watch the demise of US science in real time, “surreal” is the word that came to mind. It isn’t the same kind of surreal as Stern-Gerlach, which feels like being re-introduced to reality – although you realise you had been living with a false sense of the world before, the new one is cool and exciting, so that’s all right.

Our current political moment instead feels like realising that we had been living with a false sense of security – that US science and government support for it would be there tomorrow – but without a cool new reality on the other side. Instead, the US government is dispensing with publicly funded culture, throwing it into a black hole. I don’t make that metaphor lightly; I think it’s important. When an object crosses a black hole’s event horizon, it is the point of no return. The object can’t go back.

We are in the same situation. While the universe will still be there to be understood, the damage to our capacity for research will be long lasting and the alteration to our trajectory permanent. Already, a generation of master’s and PhD students has had the number of available slots reduced. Aspiring professors aren’t being trained in the same numbers; this affects not just future scientists but science communicators, too.

[...] This surreal moment isn’t just happening to US-based scientists and the US public. Because so much of the science we all read about comes from the US, it’s happening to you, too.

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fliptop writes:

With this week's release of Android 16, Google added a new security feature to Android, called Advanced Protection. At-risk people—like journalists, activists, or politicians—should consider turning on. Here's what it does, and how to decide if it's a good fit for your security needs:

To get some confusing naming schemes clarified at the start: Advanced Protection is an extension of Google's Advanced Protection Program, which protects your Google account from phishing and harmful downloads, and is not to be confused with Apple's Advanced Data Protection, which enables end-to-end encryption for most data in iCloud. Instead, Google's Advanced Protection is more comparable to the iPhone's Lockdown Mode, Apple's solution to protecting high risk people from specific types of digital threats on Apple devices.

Advanced Protection for Android is meant to provide stronger security by: enabling certain features that aren't on by default, disabling the ability to turn off features that are enabled by default, and adding new security features. Put together, this suite of features is designed to isolate data where possible, and reduce the chances of interacting with unsecure websites and unknown individuals.

[...] It's also worth considering that enabling Advanced Protection may impact how you use your device. For example, Advanced Protection disables the JavaScript optimizer in Chrome, which may break some websites, and since Advanced Protection blocks unknown apps, you won't be able to side-load. There's also the chance that some of the call screening and scam detection features may misfire and flag legitimate calls.

TFA gives instructions on how to enable and disable Advanced Protection.

Related: Apple's New Lockdown Mode for iPhone Fights Hacking

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hubie writes:

Previous associations seen between fitness and a reduced risk of premature death from various diseases have probably been misleading:

Many observational studies have shown that people who exercise more and have good cardiorespiratory fitness early in life are at lower risk of premature death from causes such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. However, a new study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology suggests that the association between physical fitness and a reduced risk of mortality may be misleading.

"We found that people with high fitness levels in late adolescence had a lower risk of dying prematurely, for example from cardiovascular disease, compared to those with low fitness levels. But when we looked at their risk of dying in random accidents, we found an almost similarly strong association. This suggests that people with high and low fitness levels may differ in other important ways, which is something that previous studies have not fully taken into account," says Marcel Ballin, associated researcher in epidemiology and lead author of the study.

[...] The researchers started with a traditional analysis of mortality from cardiovascular disease, cancer and from all causes, as in previous observational studies. They adjusted their statistical models for factors such as BMI, age at conscription, year of conscription, and parents' income and education level. The results showed that the group with the highest fitness level had a 58 per cent lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a 31 per cent lower risk of dying from cancer, and a 53 per cent lower risk of dying from all causes, compared with the group with the lowest fitness level.

Next, the researchers examined how fitness was associated with the risk of dying in random accidents such as car accidents, drownings and homicides. They chose random accidents because they assumed that there ought to be no association between the men's fitness in late adolescence and the risk of dying in random accidents. This method is called negative control outcome analysis and involves testing the validity of your results for a primary outcome by comparing them with an outcome where no association ought to be found. If, however, an association is found, it may indicate that the groups studied are not actually comparable, and that the study suffers from what is typically referred to as confounding. The researchers found that men with the highest fitness levels had a 53 per cent lower risk of dying in random accidents. Yet, it is unlikely that the men's fitness would have such a big effect on their risk of dying in random accidents.

hubie writes:

A new attack dubbed 'SmartAttack' uses smartwatches as a covert ultrasonic signal receiver to exfiltrate data from physically isolated (air-gapped) systems:

Air-gapped systems, commonly deployed in mission-critical environments such as government facilities, weapons platforms, and nuclear power plants, are physically isolated from external networks to prevent malware infections and data theft.

Despite this isolation, they remain vulnerable to compromise through insider threats such as rogue employees using USB drives or state-sponsored supply chain attacks.

Once infiltrated, malware can operate covertly, using stealthy techniques to modulate the physical characteristics of hardware components to transmit sensitive data to a nearby receiver without interfering with the system's regular operations.

SmartAttack was devised by Israeli university researchers led by Mordechai Guri, a specialist in the field of covert attack channels who previously presented methods to leak data using LCD screen noise, RAM modulation, network card LEDs, USB drive RF signals, SATA cables, and power supplies.

While attacks on air-gapped environments are, in many cases, theoretical and extremely difficult to achieve, they still present interesting and novel approaches to exfiltrate data.

SmartAttack requires malware to somehow infect an air-gapped computer to gather sensitive information such as keystrokes, encryption keys, and credentials. It can then use the computer's built-in speaker to emit ultrasonic signals to the environment.

By using a binary frequency shift keying (B-FSK), the audio signal frequencies can be modulated to represent binary data, aka ones and zeroes. A frequency of 18.5 kHz represents "0," while 19.5 kHz denotes "1."

Frequencies at this range are inaudible to humans, but they can still be caught by a smartwatch microphone worn by a person nearby.

The sound monitoring app in the smartwatch applies signal processing techniques to detect frequency shifts and demodulate the encoded signal, while integrity tests can also be applied.

The final exfiltration of the data can take place via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or cellular connectivity.

The smartwatch can either be purposefully equipped with this tool by a rogue employee, or outsiders may infect it without the wearer's knowledge.

[...] The researchers say the best way to counter the SmartAttack is to prohibit using smartwatches in secure environments.

Another measure would be to remove in-built speakers from air-gapped machines. This would eliminate the attack surface for all acoustic covert channels, not just SmartAttack.

If none of this is feasible, ultrasonic jamming through the emission of broadband noise, software-based firewalls, and audio-gapping could still prove effective.

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An Anonymous Coward writes:

Kali Linux 2025.2, the second release of the year, is now available for download with 13 new tools and an expanded car hacking toolkit.

Designed for cybersecurity professionals and ethical hackers, the Kali Linux distribution facilitates security audits, penetration testing, and network research.

The Kali Team has added many new features and refined the distro's user interface. Notable changes include:

• Renamed and updated car hacking toolset
• Kali Menu and UI refresh
• Updates to Kali NetHunter
• Additional hacking tools

Renamed and expanded car hacking toolkit

In this release, the CAN Arsenal was renamed CARsenal to better reflect its purpose as a car hacking toolset and now has a more user-friendly interface.

The Kali Team has also added new tools, including:

• hlcand: Modified slcand for ELM327 use
• VIN Info: Decode your VIN identifier
• CaringCaribou: Actually provide Listener, Dump, Fuzzer, Send, UDS and XCP modules
• ICSim: Provide a great simulator to play with VCAN and test CARsenal toolset without hardware needed

hubie writes:

New research looks at near-death experiences and people's attitudes to work:

Singer-songwriter Aysanabee was snowshoeing across a frozen lake in remote northern Ontario over a decade ago, when the ice gave way beneath him, plunging him into frigid waters.

[...] He eventually managed to pull himself back onto solid ground, where he started a small fire to warm up and dry off. On the long walk back to camp, he had time to reflect on how close he came to death — and what he wanted to do with this second chance.

"Then, three months later, I bought a one-way ticket to Toronto to go do music," he said.

At the University of Guelph, Jamie Gruman and his research team recently interviewed 14 people who suffered near-death experiences, examining the impact on their work and careers. Published in the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion in April, their research showed that survivors gained new insights, from a greater interest in spirituality to a belief that everyone is born equal, and here for a reason.

"Specifically as a result of those things, the insights and the personal transformations, work often became much less important to people," said Gruman, a professor of organizational behaviour at Guelph University.

[...] Gruman said that what people want from their work boils down to three things: economic security, meaningful work that allows them to grow and develop, and high-quality relationships.

But for the study participants who had come close to death, that changed.

"They all completely lost interest in making money and any external measures of success," he said.

"They didn't want big houses and cars and boats. They didn't want to be the executive vice president. They didn't want to get rich."

By contrast, the desire for meaningful work and strong workplace relationships skyrocketed, he said. That led some participants to change jobs, or even completely change careers.

Others were able to find what they needed by rethinking how they approached their work, Gruman said, giving the example of a teacher who "didn't really like teaching."

After her near-death experience, "she considered herself now to be a teacher in the school of life," he said.

Like Aysanabee, a brush with death taught the participants a lesson about time.

"They decided, 'Look, you know, my time here is limited, so let me make a move. And do something that speaks to my soul,'" Gruman said.
"Teaching math and science was just incidental to teaching students about the importance of treating people well and living well."

Journal Reference: https://doi.org/10.51327/UKWD3742 [Referenced in the body of TFA]

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The OSA was passed in 2023, however, specific child-safety duties and codes for online sites were finalised earlier this year. 

The UK internet and telecoms regulator Ofcom has opened nine new investigations into websites for potentially breaching the country’s Online Safety Act (OSA).

Of the nine, First Time Videos, a pornography website, will be probed over possibly failing to protect children from accessing mature content through effective age assurance methods.

“Robust” age checks under the OSA mandate that websites that allow porn and other harmful content must make sure children cannot access it.

Age verification and estimation needs to be “highly effective” under the law. According to the regulator, First Time Videos appears not to have taken the legally required steps to ensure age assurance.

While online discussion board 4chan will be investigated for potentially failing to respond to Ofcom’s legal requests for information and to conduct illegal content risk assessments on its website.

4chan’s provider received a formal information notice from the regulator in April this year, which it has not yet responded to, the regulator said.

Ofcom is also investigating seven file-sharing websites, including Krakenfiles, Im.ge and Yolobit, over whether they failed to protect UK users from encountering illegal content and activity such as child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

The telecoms regulator opened an enforcement programme earlier this year, assessing measures that file-sharing websites have taken to protect users from CSAM.

It sent a request for information to the sites in April, and has not received a response from any of the seven file-sharing sites.

[...] From the end of July, search websites, or websites were users interact with each other’s content, need to start implementing safety measures to protect children from harmful material, including content that promotes suicide, self-harm, eating disorders or dangerous challenges.

Earlier this year, Ofcom fined OnlyFans’ operator £1.05m for failing to provide accurate information about the age assurance measures it had in place on the adult-only platform.

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quietus writes:

The President of the United States has declared that the 17 million inhabitants of the capital city of a country should immediately evacuate.

Republican Congressman (and engineer) Thomas Massie (Kentucky) has stated that he will introduce a war powers resolution today, Tuesday, to prevent the President of the United States going to war without first consulting Congress.

"This is not our war. But if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our Constitution."

[Editor's Comment: This has been released with significant reservations. The departure of Trump from the G7 was accompanied with a statement that said "it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that." Of course, this can be read in 2 different ways. It is possible that Iran is prepared to surrender or the US might be taking its own action in support of Israel. We would welcome your comments.--JR]

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upstart writes:

Solar Orbiter isn't the first spacecraft to study the sun's poles—but it's the first to send back photographs:

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So count your lucky stars: for the first time in history, scientists have photographed one of the sun's elusive poles.

The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter. Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, Solar Orbiter launched in February 2020 and has been monitoring our home star since November 2021. But the mission is only now beginning its most intriguing work: studying the poles of the sun.

From Earth and spacecraft alike, our view of the sun has been biased. "We've had a good view of centermost part of the sun's disk," says Daniel Müller, a heliophysicist and project scientist for the mission. "But the poles are effectively not visible because we always see them almost exactly edge-on."

We began getting a better perspective earlier this year, when Solar Orbiter zipped past Venus in a carefully choreographed move that pulled the probe out of the solar system's ecliptic, the plane that broadly passes through the planets' orbits and the sun's equator. (The new views show the sun's south pole and were captured in March. The spacecraft flew over the north pole in late April, Müller says, but Solar Orbiter is still in the process of beaming that data back to Earth.)

Leaving the ecliptic is a costly, fuel-expensive maneuver for spacecraft, but it's where Solar Orbiter excels: By the end of the mission, the spacecraft's orbit will be tilted 33 degrees with respect to the ecliptic. That tilted orbit is what allows Solar Orbiter to garner unprecedented views of the sun's poles.

For scientists, the new view is priceless because these poles aren't just geographic poles; they're also magnetic poles—of sorts. The sun is a massive swirl of plasma that produces then erases a magnetic field. This is what drives the 11-year solar activity cycle.

[...] Most of the spacecraft's observations won't reach Earth until this autumn. But ESA has released initial looks from three different instruments onboard Solar Orbiter, each of which lets scientists glimpse different phenomena.

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What does the future of the internet look like? If AI firms get their way, the once-open web could be fractured into digital silos dominated by commercial AI models, leaving hobbyists and small businesses behind. To prevent this, a team of grassroots researchers is planning to fight back and ensure an open approach to AI.

At the heart of this battle is the concept of an AI “agent”, a piece of software that browses the web and interacts with websites according to the instructions of a human user – for example, planning and booking a holiday. Many people see agents as the next evolution of services like ChatGPT, but getting them to work is proving tricky. That is because the web was built for human use, and developers are realising that AI agents need specialised protocols to better interact with online data, services and each other.

“The idea is to build infrastructure so there’s a way for software-like bots, which we call AI agents, to communicate with each other,” says Catherine Flick at the University of Staffordshire, UK.

Several competing solutions to this problem have already been developed. For example, Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, has developed the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which standardises how AI models connect to different data sources and tools. In April, Google announced its own version of such a concept, the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol.

[...] But because these protocols are coming out of big tech labs, there are concerns that the inventors of the winning protocol could exert their influence to benefit their business, rather than the greater good. MCP requires a central server to oversee connections, while A2A is built around the assumption of a catalogue of approved agents working together, rather than a free-for-all.

“We don’t want the ‘agent internet’ to become another ‘data silo alliance’,” says Gaowei Chang. He chairs the AI Agent Protocol Group, which was established in May as part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards organisation, and says it is essential that all voices are heard in developing this new layer of the internet. “If we truly believe AI is an important technology that will change human society, then we need an open, neutral community to drive protocol design, ensuring its future belongs to everyone, not just a few companies,” he says.

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Recent geopolitical developments and shifts in demand are causing TSMC to rebalance its investment strategy. The company has responded to growing pressure from the Trump administration to onshore its manufacturing by accelerating the construction timelines for its upcoming U.S. fabs by as much as six months. Conversely, in other parts of the world, a TSMC fab in Japan is now underperforming, and a second under construction is facing delays. A contracting German auto sector may slow further TSMC investments in Europe, according to a report by Digitimes.

However, while U.S. investment from TSMC is certainly ramping up amidst growing demand for chips, Taiwan remains the company’s heartland, with four of the current nine under-construction new fabrication plants being based in the East-Asian territory. This underlines the continued importance of U.S. strategic initiatives in the region, considering ongoing posturing from the ruling Chinese party about Taiwanese reunification.

TSMC has been a prolific fab-plant builder and investor in its global operations for years, consistently building multiple new chip manufacturing facilities every year. In 2025, it listed a total of nine new facilities as under construction (though some began in 2024 and others are actually starting operation, rather than starting construction).

The Fab 21 site near Phoenix, Arizona, is listed as two separate facilities, and it will produce different TSMC silicon. The N3 plant is in the equipping phase, while the A16 and N2 process production facility entered construction in April this year. That construction is now expected to accelerate, with TSMC saying it has brought its completion date forward by six months.

As part of this initiative, TSMC is investing a further $100 billion in American fabrication, bringing its total investment into the U.S to a total of $165 billion, which was announced in Early March. These will come online over the next few years, allowing for the US-native production of more advanced process nodes by 2030.

fliptop writes:

Newspaper could join legacy media brands in embracing newsletter platform:

The Washington Post has held talks with Substack about hosting pieces by its writers, the site's co-founder has said, as a host of legacy media brands embrace the newsletter platform in the battle for readers.

In an interview with the Guardian, Substack's Hamish McKenzie said he had spoken to the Post about its plans to widen the types of opinion pieces on its website.

He said there had been a "change in mindset" from traditional media, which once viewed Substack with suspicion. He said many now saw the platform as an opportunity to adapt to what he described as "the most significant media disruption since the printing press".

[...] Substack has become increasingly influential since its launch in 2017. It allows anyone to publish and distribute digital content, primarily through newsletters, and charge a subscription. It has also been branching out into podcasts and video.

[...] McKenzie said Substack was trying to find new workable models for media amid the struggles of traditional outlets to hold on to rapidly fragmenting audiences. "It's not a problem with demand for quality journalism," he said. "It's a problem with the business model and so there has to be a reinvention. We're almost at the point where the fire has razed through the forest and there are a few trees still standing. It's time to replant the forest. We're living through the most significant media disruption since the printing press."

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Is this admission a sign of what Beijing wants?

Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei has admitted that its Ascend chip family is not as powerful as Washington thinks. As reported by its parent publication, Global Times, Zhengfei said this during an interview with the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The story itself was published on the front page of the newspaper on June 10, 2025, reflecting the importance of what the Huawei CEO said to the party and to state policy.

The second question the interviewer asked Zhengfei was about the U.S.’s crackdown on Huawei’s Ascend chips that allegedly violate export control and its impact on the company. “There are many companies in China making chips, and many are doing well; Huawei is just one of them. The U.S. has exaggerated Huawei’s achievements — the company isn’t that powerful yet,” said Ren. “We need to work hard to live up to their evaluations. Our single chips still lag behind the U.S. by a generation.”

This is a massive admission for a Chinese company that’s one of the key players in China’s ambition of global technological dominance; more so that it was done right on the front page of the CPC’s primary mouthpiece. Given that the People’s Daily is directly controlled by the party (not by the Chinese government), it’s often considered a tool that helps shape public opinion, share party policies, and even be used to gauge domestic feedback and the reaction of the wider international community before Beijing implements official changes.

China has been adamant for years that the U.S.’s bans on its technological sector won’t affect its progress, with China’s president telling the Dutch PM last year that it does not need ASML. However, no country is an island — and even if China does not or could not export its goods to the U.S., it still needs an international market to ship its goods and services to. Aside from that, this interview is a rare event where Beijing is strategically showing vulnerability, especially as the restriction set by the White House on the Huawei Ascend processors seems to have far-reaching consequences going beyond the borders of the United States and its allies.

[...] This isn’t to say that China doesn’t have an ace up its sleeve. The country is one of the biggest suppliers of rare earth metals needed for chip making, and it has restricted its exports as a response to Trump’s tariffs. Without them, the semiconductor supply chain would hit a snag, making it difficult, if not impossible, for fabs to continue making chips at current cost. Nevertheless, the country has recently started easing these export limits for domestic and European chip firms. It could be that China is willing to make a major concession, like giving U.S. companies access to its rare earths once again, in exchange for Washington not sanctioning Huawei’s customers.

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upstart writes:

Preserved beneath the ice sheet's crushing weight, the land remained unchanged since long before glaciation began:

Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. This frozen expanse, more than 10 million square kilometers wide, has long concealed a forgotten landscape. Now, using cutting-edge satellite tools, researchers have pulled back the curtain on a time when Antarctica teemed with life.

A team led by Stewart Jamieson at Durham University made the discovery with help from RADARSAT, a Canadian satellite system. The technology allowed them to detect small changes in the ice surface, revealing the shape of the land buried below. What they found was extraordinary: an ancient river-carved terrain about the size of Wales, locked under nearly two kilometers of ice.

"It's like uncovering a time capsule," Jamieson said. The untouched condition of the landscape points to its extreme age. Preserved beneath the ice sheet's crushing weight, the land remained unchanged since long before glaciation began. This hidden world dates back to a period when Antarctica was not the icy desert we know today.

Back then, the continent was part of Gondwana—a supercontinent shared with Africa, South America, and Australia. Instead of ice, Antarctica featured flowing rivers, forests, and roaming dinosaurs. That changed about 20 million years ago when glaciers took hold, freezing the region's history beneath a growing sheet of ice.

The ancient landscape now uncovered is more than a prehistoric curiosity. It helps scientists understand how Antarctica has changed over millions of years. These findings could also shed light on how the ice sheet might respond to rising global temperatures in the future.

The research also opens a new window into how rivers once shaped the bedrock before the climate shifted. It suggests that massive ice coverage can preserve entire ecosystems in place, offering a rare glimpse into ancient environments that no longer exist. The survival of these features helps scientists map how Earth's surface responds to extreme changes in climate.

With every pass of the satellite, new details emerged. What started as faint surface cues turned into a clear picture of valleys, ridges, and channels below. As technology improves, more hidden corners of the Earth's past may be revealed. But for now, this glimpse beneath the Antarctic ice connects us to a greener, wilder world long gone—but not forgotten.

"We've had a longtime interest in, effectively, the shape of the land beneath the ice sheet," Jamieson said. "The implication is that this must be a very old landscape carved by rivers before the ice sheet itself grew."

slon writes:

from https://news.mit.edu/2025/photonic-processor-could-streamline-6g-wireless-signal-processing-0611

As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it will become extremely challenging to manage the finite amount of wireless spectrum available for all users to share.

Engineers are employing artificial intelligence to dynamically manage the available wireless spectrum, with an eye toward reducing latency and boosting performance. But most AI methods for classifying and processing wireless signals are power-hungry and can't operate in real-time.

Now, MIT researchers have developed a novel AI hardware accelerator that is specifically designed for wireless signal processing. Their optical processor performs machine-learning computations at the speed of light, classifying wireless signals in a matter of nanoseconds.

The photonic chip is about 100 times faster than the best digital alternative, while converging to about 95 percent accuracy in signal classification. The new hardware accelerator is also scalable and flexible, so it could be used for a variety of high-performance computing applications. At the same time, it is smaller, lighter, cheaper, and more energy-efficient than digital AI hardware accelerators.

The device could be especially useful in future 6G wireless applications, such as cognitive radios that optimize data rates by adapting wireless modulation formats to the changing wireless environment.

By enabling an edge device to perform deep-learning computations in real-time, this new hardware accelerator could provide dramatic speedups in many applications beyond signal processing. For instance, it could help autonomous vehicles make split-second reactions to environmental changes or enable smart pacemakers to continuously monitor the health of a patient's heart.

"There are many applications that would be enabled by edge devices that are capable of analyzing wireless signals. What we've presented in our paper could open up many possibilities for real-time and reliable AI inference. This work is the beginning of something that could be quite impactful," says Dirk Englund, a professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, principal investigator in the Quantum Photonics and Artificial Intelligence Group and the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and senior author of the paper.

He is joined on the paper by lead author Ronald Davis III PhD '24; Zaijun Chen, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the University of Southern California; and Ryan Hamerly, a visiting scientist at RLE and senior scientist at NTT Research. The research appears today in Science Advances.