Researchers have developed a new way to help wearable health devices more accurately detect when a person is coughing — a breakthrough that could improve the monitoring of chronic respiratory conditions and even help predict health risks such as asthma attacks. The advance, led by scientists at North Carolina State University, marks a significant step forward for cough-detection technology, which has historically struggled to differentiate cough sounds from speech and other n

Researchers at North Carolina State University have identified the first-ever hardware vulnerability that enables attackers to compromise the privacy of AI users by exploiting the physical hardware running the AI systems. “What we’ve discovered is an AI privacy attack,” explains Joshua Kalyanapu, Ph.D. student at NC State and first author of the study. “Unlike traditional security attacks that steal data stored in a system’s memory, privacy attacks extract information not dir