Man builds electrified chessboard that shocks players for bad moves

Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...
Hackaday

Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons The Hard Way

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the ...

Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. And wins.

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...
GitHub

A Two-Phase Reinforcement Learning Chess Engine

Combining supervised pretraining on master-level games with AlphaZero-style self-play reinforcement learning, using a SE-ResNet architecture with spatial attention and Win/Draw/Loss value estimation.
The New York Times

Chess With an Extra Dash of Excitement: A Female Star’s Story

Framed as a sports tale, “Queen of Chess,” directed by Rory Kennedy, recounts the life of Judit Polgar, who battled sexism as much as rival players. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for ...
IEEE

LLM-Guided Mutation Location Selection for Vulnerability-Aware JavaScript Engine Fuzzing

Abstract: Modern JavaScript engines employ multi-tier JIT compilation for high performance, but these aggressive optimizations often introduce subtle and hard-to-detect security vulnerabilities.
Interesting Engineering

US aerospace giant tests hybrid electric engine for future narrowbody aircraft

GE Aerospace announced on January 26 that it reached a key milestone in hybrid-electric aviation, confirming a successful ground test of a commercial turbofan engine that can extract, transfer, and ...