A new report (PDF) from the Data Science 4 Everyone coalition reveals that data literacy skills among fourth and eighth-grade students have declined significantly over the last decade even as these skills have become increasingly essential in our modern, data-driven society. Phys.Org reports: Based on data from the latest National Read more…
Internet Explorer 11 was never Windows 10’s primary browser — that would be the old, pre-Chromium version of Microsoft Edge. But IE did continue to ship with Windows 10 for compatibility reasons, and IE11 remained installed and accessible in most versions of Windows 10 even after security updates for the Read more…
The US Department of Defense’s research agency, DARPA, has announced that its AI algorithms can now control an actual F-16 in flight. The fighter aircraft that was first introduced in 1978 has now seemingly evolved into an autonomous plane. “In early December 2022, ACE algorithm developers uploaded their AI software Read more…
A new bill advancing through the Arkansas legislature aims to make it harder for people to access porn sites. Senate Bill 66, the Protection of Minors from Distribution of Harmful Material Act, would require anyone in Arkansas to provide a “digitized identification card” before viewing a site that contains more Read more…
Science educator Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. But Hossenfelder’s latest YouTube video expounds upon the sorry state of particle physics, and in the process also has some interesting sidenotes on dark matter. Hossenfelder criticises what has become the standard operating procedure of Read more…
“The waiting time for general purpose quantum computers is getting shorter, but they are still probably decades away,” notes Security Week. But “The arrival of cryptanalytically-relevant quantum computers that will herald the cryptopocalypse will be much sooner — possibly less than a decade.” It is important to note that all Read more…
The day after Microsoft unveiled its AI-powered Bing chatbot, “a Stanford University student named Kevin Liu used a prompt injection attack to discover Bing Chat’s initial prompt, a list of statements that governs how it interacts with people who use the service.” By asking Bing Chat to “Ignore previous instructions” Read more…