The Battle to Mitigate E-Waste
As electronic waste grows by the metric ton, companies and citizens work to stem the tide.
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After years and many attempts to build out a metaverse and make use of it, is there anything out there?
If We Could Talk to the Animals
Can artificial intelligence overcome the communication barriers between species?
By Eugene H. Spafford, with assistance by Simson Garfinkel John Rischard Rice, a leading scientist and educator, died at home on Jan. 7, 2024. Rice was the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and a professor of mathematics at Purdue University. Rice was born June 6, 1934, in Tulsa, OK, to Margaret […]
Governments Are Spying on Your Push Notifications
Companies are being compelled to turn over potentially valuable push notification metadata to authorities.
The apparent ability of LLMs to write functioning source code has simultaneously caused celebration over the potential for massive increases in programmer productivity and consternation among teachers.
Do You Think the Chatbot Likes Me?
Artificial intelligence chatbots increasingly are being given distinct personalities, to increase the appeal of interacting with them.
Algorithmic Advance: the Group Isomorphism Problem
Exploring a potential way to immensely speed up algorithms for the group isomorphism problem.
Susan Landau Awarded AMS Bertrand Russell Prize
Landau was awarded the 2024 Bertrand Russell Prize for writing technical research papers and op-eds, publishing public-facing work, briefing policymakers, and participating in national studies. Susan Landau has received several awards in her career as an expert in computer privacy and security, but the most recent, the 2024 Bertrand Russell Prize of the American Mathematical […]
AI Deepnets Throw Light on Ancient History
Artificial Intelligence helps us read the previously unreadable.
Generative artificial intelligence and the law: there is no turning back.
National Lab Works to Cap, Reduce Carbon
Argonne National Laboratory will use supercomputers to help companies advance clean energy technologies with ultra-fidelity simulations and data analysis.
Bigger, Not Necessarily Better
The inverse scaling issue means larger LLMs sometimes handle things less well.
Multiple Data Leaks at 23andme
From early August through October, genetics testing firm 23andme and its users were subject to dark web posts regarding millions of user profiles and genetic data records that cybercriminals leaked or breached. Threat actors have advertised various collections of the data records from the leaks for sale. According to BleepingComputer, and based on input from […]
Revamping Python for an AI World
Mojo has the same syntax as Python, but runs up to 35,000 times faster.
Saving Digital Libraries and the Internet Archive
A battle over “truth and who has access to it in the digital age.”
Shape the Future of Computing
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