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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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AI Might Enable Us to Talk to Animals Soon. Here's How
As large language models become experts at human speech, they're now shifting their focus to animal communication.
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This New Technology Could Blow Away GPT-4 and Everything Like It
The Hyena code is able to handle amounts of data that make GPT-style technology run out of memory and fail.
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NSA Says: Do These Things to Keep Your Home Network Cafe from Cyberattack
The NSA's 'Best Practices for Securing Your Home Network' guide provides remote workers with advice on how to protect against online threats.
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These Experts are Racing to Protect AI from Hackers. Time is Running Out
AI is becoming a key part of our lives. Hacking it could cause chaos, so the race is on to build defenses.
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Digital Twin for Intense Weather Gives Scientists 'Control Loop'
Scientists at Cerebras and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory said they can model extreme weather by accelerating field equations...
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We Will See a Completely New Type of Computer, Says AI Pioneer Hinton
ACM A.M. Turing award recipient Geoffrey Hinton envisions a "mortal" neuromorphic computer combining hardware and software.
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Linux Malware Has a Sneaky Way of Staying Hidden
Researchers discovered the Syslogk Linux rootkit delivers a backdoor trojan hides on a targeted machine until triggered.
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How One Paper Blew Up Bitcoin's Claim to Anonymity
All individuals transacting in Bitcoin are within six degrees or fewer of separation from a core group, say researchers.
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Decade-Old Bugs Discovered in Avast, AVG Antivirus Software
Researchers at cybersecurity software company SentinelOne reported two high-severity bugs in Avast and AVG antivirus products that have gone undetected for a decade...
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Corrupted Open Source Software Enters the Russian Battlefield
A programmer behind the popular open-source npm program node-ipc poisoned it with malware that erased the hard drives of computers located in Russia or Belarus....
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How MIT's Robot Cheetah Got Its Speed
Researchers have designed a new version of the Mini Cheetah robot that can achieve high running speeds more efficiently than its predecessors.
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UC Berkeley Robot Navigation Could Chart New Course for Self-Driving Systems
An approach that uses hours of video and elements of reinforcement learning can guide a robot vehicle almost two miles without a full map of the surroundings.
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Robot Fry Cook Gets Job at 100 White Castle Locations
Miso Robotics' Flippy 2 robot fry cook is being deployed in 100 White Castle fast food restaurants.
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IonQ Teams with U.S. Department of Energy
IonQ and DoE are trying to create a stable, domestic pipeline for sourcing the barium qubits used in quantum processors built by IonQ.
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Intel Invests in Open-Source RISC-V Processors, Creates Billion-Dollar Fund
Intel and RISC-V working together is a game-changer, and today is the day that RISC-V becomes a chip power.
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Software Is Crammed Full of Bugs. This 'Exciting' Project Could Banish Most of Them
Chip designer Arm has released a prototype development board based on the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) architecture.
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More Than Half of Medical Devices Have Critical Vulnerabilities
The 2022 State of Healthcare IoT Device Security Report estimates 53% of medical devices in hospitals connected to the Internet of Things have critical flaws.
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Robot Taxi Boats Take to the Water in Amsterdam
An autonomous boat taxi is set for deployment in the canals of Amsterdam.
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Researchers Develop AI System to Improve Eye Disease Detection
The comprehensive artificial intelligence retinal expert (CARE) system can detect and monitor eye diseases.
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