Intel has collaborated with Accenture to offer 34 open source AI reference kits to developers and data scientists, allowing them to easily and quickly deploy artificial intelligence. Each kit includes model code, training data, instructions, libraries, and components to optimize AI in various environments. Intel aims to enable an AI everywhere future by providing an […]
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Worldcoin is a financial system that relies on sensitive biometric information, primarily collected from impoverished individuals. This concept is not just terrible but goes beyond that. Worldcoin requires a massive database of iris data, which led them to pay people in the global south, where eyeballs are cheapest, to scan their eyes. However, this approach […]
Welcome to the Flash Museum! We are currently in the beta testing phase, so please bear with us if some games don’t run smoothly. Our aim is to archive and make playable over 130,000 flash games and animations on your browser. To kickstart your nostalgic journey, we have handpicked some “Hall of Fame” games and […]
In the world of behavioral science, Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino are renowned for their research on honesty. One of their notable studies focused on using subtle “nudges” to encourage people to be more truthful on forms and tax returns. By simply moving the place where individuals declare their honesty from the bottom of the […]
After ten years since the initial release of Cap’n Proto, version 1.0 of its C++ reference implementation is finally here. Despite not having many new features, Cap’n Proto has been relied upon in production for a long time, with millions (maybe billions) of messages and gigabits (maybe terabits) of data encoded daily. The motivation behind […]
The California Department of Education (CDE) is facing backlash for threatening legal action against two Stanford University education professors who were set to testify in a lawsuit against the department. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argues that the department’s actions infringe upon the professors’ First Amendment rights. This dispute has raised concerns about the […]
LeMUR is a powerful tool designed to optimize accuracy for specific tasks that developers commonly want to build with. It offers a range of features, including automatic summarization of virtual meetings and phone calls, question and answer capabilities, and action item generation from meetings. LeMUR is also extensible and allows users to define their own […]
In the Namib Desert and northwestern Australia, there are mysterious circular patches known as “fairy circles” that have sparked scientific debate. Some scientists believe that sand termites are responsible for these patterns, while others argue that they are a self-organizing ecological phenomenon known as a Turing pattern. A recent paper published in the journal Perspectives […]
Researchers from ETH Zürich and Università di Bologna have published a technical paper titled “Fast Shared-Memory Barrier Synchronization for a 1024-Cores RISC-V Many-Core Cluster.” The paper addresses the issue of synchronization in shared-memory parallel programs and focuses specifically on barrier synchronization for TeraPool, a cluster of 1024 RISC-V processors. The researchers compare different synchronization strategies […]
In this paper, Phillip Rogaway discusses the political and moral nature of cryptography. He argues that cryptography is a tool that rearranges power and has significant societal implications. The Snowden revelations, which exposed mass surveillance, prompt a reevaluation of the field of cryptography and its role in resisting such surveillance. Rogaway calls for a community-wide […]