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New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs

Claude Opus commit added malicious npm dependency in Feb 2026, enabling crypto theft and persistent RAT access.
IEEE

Accuracy Enhancement Method for Speech Emotion Recognition From Spectrogram Using Temporal Frequency Correlation and Positional Information Learning Through Knowledge Transfer

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a method to improve the accuracy of speech emotion recognition (SER) by using vision transformer (ViT) to attend to the correlation of frequency (y-axis) with time ...
CNET

You're Brewing It Wrong: 10 Experts Rank the Best (and Worst) Ways to Make Coffee

Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based in Astoria, Queens. While she writes about most things edible and potable (and accessories dedicated to those topics,) her real areas of expertise ...
IEEE

Centralized Hybrid Voltage Control of Active Distribution Network Using Recursive Least Squares Method for Sensitivity Estimation

Abstract: This paper presents a hybrid centralized, optimal, adaptive, and data-driven Volt-VAR and Volt-Watt control framework for voltage regulation in distribution systems. The proposed methodology ...