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A cyberattack hit Carnegie Mellon University last summer and the attackers breached personal data, according to a disclosure from the school last week. The Pittsburgh-based university known for its top tech and computer science programs said on Friday that the attack impacted 7,300 students, employees, contractors and other affiliates."There is no evidence of fraud or inappropriate use of the information from those files," a statement from CMU said. Still, the attackers likely accessed and copied data that included names,…

Carnegie Mellon’s AI system, Coscientist, autonomously conducts chemistry experiments, significantly advancing scientific research. By using large language models and automating the experimental process, it offers a new level of efficiency and accessibility in scientific research, with an emphasis on safety and ethical use. Credit: SciTechDaily.comCarnegie Mellon University’s AI system Coscientist successfully automated complex, Nobel-winning chemical reactions, marking a groundbreaking advancement in AI-driven scientific…

Welsh writer Manon Steffan Ros has won the 2023 Yoto Carnegie medal, the UK’s most prestigious children’s books award, the first time a translated book has won in its 87-year history.Judges described Ros’s young adult novel The Blue Book of Nebo, set in a post-apocalyptic Wales, as both “heartbreaking” and “rich with Welsh heritage”. The work, originally published in Welsh, was translated by Ros herself.“I’m absolutely delighted,” Ros said. “I used to see the word Carnegie on the cover of my favourite books when I was a…

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University set out to create advanced smart sensors called Mites. The sensors were meant to collect 12 types of environmental data, including motion, temperature, and scrambled audio, in a more privacy-protecting and secure way than the existing infrastructure of the Internet of Things. But after they installed hundreds of the sensors around a new campus building, the project took an ironic turn when some students and faculty members accused the researchers of violating their privacy by…

Authors including Jessie Burton, Patrice Lawrence and Sita Brahmachari are part of an all-female shortlist for the Yoto Carnegie medal for writing.The prize awards outstanding achievement in children’s writing and features seven authors. Burton, Lawrence and Brahmachari are all first-time shortlistees as is Manon Steffan Ros. The shortlist is completed by Katya Balen, who won the award in 2022, Louise Finch and Ruta Sepetys.Alongside the prize for writing, the shortlist of six books for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for…

Professor David Rounce, an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, spearheaded an international effort to create new projections for glacier mass loss over the course of the century under various emissions scenarios. These projections were compiled into global temperature change scenarios to aid in adaptation and mitigation discussions, such as those at the recent United Nations Conference of Parties (COP 27). Rounce’s research demonstrated that the world could potentially lose between 26% and 41% of…

Professor Uju Anya has said her job at Carnegie Mellon University is safe.Photo: Ronny Hartmann / AFP (Getty Images)Carnegie Mellon professor Uju Anya, who unleashed a social media storm last week when she wished the late Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating pain” in death in a tweet, is back on Twitter. In an update, she thanked the people who supported her, and assured them that nothing was going to happen to her job at the university. 02:49Guess How Much Crypto's Been Stolen Lately? Part 2Today 10:45AMAnya had been locked…

Carnegie Mellon professor Uju Anya’s tweet wishing the late Queen Elizabeth II excruciating pain in death incensed swaths of the internet.Photo: Suzanne Plunkett / WPA Pool (Getty Images)Hundreds of students have signed an open letter condemning Carnegie Mellon University for publicly throwing professor Uju Anya under the bus after tweeting that she wished the late Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating pain” in death for serving as the head of a “thieving raping genocidal empire.” Coincidentally, Carnegie Mellon actions came…