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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. I think this is the coolest technology of the last 20 years,” says Todd Austin , a hardware security expert at the University of Michigan, whose startup Agita Labs does a different form of secure computing in the Amazon and Microsoft clouds. “It

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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The United Nations’ Secretary-General is also interested; his ambitious agenda , published last September, stated that it’s time to “update our thinking on human rights,” and included neurotechnology in a list of “frontier issues” to be considered. This is something that affects the essence of what it means to be human,” he says.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.”

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

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The degree to which large language models (LLMs) might “memorize” some of their training inputs has long been a question, raised by scholars including Google DeepMind’s Nicholas Carlini and the first author of this article (Gary Marcus). legal questions (would these outputs count as copyright infringement?),

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First Twitter Files of 2023 shows how intelligence community gained influence over the platform

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As Twitter began preparing its ads policy and removing RT and Sputnik to placate Washington, the committees leaked the larger list of 2,700 accounts. However, Twitter’s leaders weren’t worried because they were sure there wasn’t a Russia problem. This led to a media circus, with Twitter being the star of the show.

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