8.5 million Windows devices were ultimately affected by the Crowdstrike outage. What one cybersecurity expert said appears to be the “largest IT outage in history” led to the cancellation of more than 5,000 commercial airline flights worldwide and disrupted businesses from retail sales to package deliveries to procedures at hospitals, Read more…
According to China Daily, China has become the world’s first nation to deploy a commercial data center underwater. China’s attempts to set up a commercial data center underwater are the result of a public-private enterprise involving the China Offshore Oil Engineering Co., the country’s largest Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation Read more…
Abstract to a paper titled, “Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure” by Jeremy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni and Marius Hobbhahn of Apollo Research: We demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, can display misaligned behavior Read more…
For circuit-based quantum computations, the achievable circuit complexity is limited by the quality of timekeeping. That’s according to a new analysis published in the journal Physical Review Letters exploring “the effect of imperfect timekeeping on controlled quantum dynamics.” An announcement from the Vienna University of Technology explains its significance. “The Read more…
Quantum computing is starting to fulfil its promise as a crucial scientific research tool, IBM researchers claim, as the US tech group attempts to quell fears that the technology will fail to match high hopes for it. From a report: The company is due to unveil 10 projects on Monday Read more…
Failing a CAPTCHA isn’t just annoying — it keeps people from navigating the internet. Older people can take considerably more time to solve different kinds of CAPTCHAs, according to the UC Irvine researchers, and other research has found that the same is true for non-native English speakers. The annoyance can Read more…
A study of more than 2 million people’s internet use found no “smoking gun” for widespread harm to mental health from online activities such as browsing social media and gaming, despite widely claimed concerns that mobile apps can cause depression and anxiety. Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said Read more…