The IAA SETI Committee announced today updated rules for evaluating and revealing the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The revised Declaration of Principles marks the first major update to the protocols in more than 15 years and reflects a media landscape transformed by social media, artificial intelligence and the 24-hour news cycle.

“The release of these updated rules and protocols marks an important step in acknowledging both the radically different media landscape that science functions within today, and the vastly expanded efforts in terms of technology and resources being deployed in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth” said Bill Diamond, President and CEO of the SETI Institute and IAA SETI Committee member. 

Researchers have developed a lightweight fault-diagnosis framework for high-speed train bogies that is designed for edge deployment while still maintaining strong cross-domain diagnostic performance. The study addresses a persistent challenge in railway intelligence: how to run deep learning models close to the train or infrastructure, where computing resources are limited, without losing accuracy when operating conditions change.

Thousands of small earthquakes, detected for the first time by a machine learning process, reveal the distinct, razor-sharp edge to the Yakutat microplate as it subducts beneath the North America plate.