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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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Yesterday, six companies that build or support sophisticated mobile robots (led by Boston Dynamics). We also call on every organization, developer, researcher, and user in the robotics community to make similar pledges not to build, authorize, support, or enable the attachment of weaponry to such robots.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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government has begun to compel reports from the developers of certain AI models, and will soon launch a public inquiry into the regulation of “widely-available” AI models. Parliament, the next wave of digital services should not rely solely on a few “black box” systems operated by a cluster of big tech firms. However, the E.U.

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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Spafford then went to Georgia Tech to pursue a master’s degree in information and computer science. The faculty [at Georgia Tech] had me design and teach a class in hardware support for operating systems,” he recalls. “I Meanwhile, his graduate and postdoc work revolved around more traditional areas of computing.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. The entrepreneurs in 1982 found Adobe a suitable name since the creek meandered near both their domes and, even more important, had none of the Qs, Xs, Ys, and Zs then popular with high-tech startups. This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history."

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Toshiba Splits in Three

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And in the recent past, two other tech titans, Hewlett Packard and Philips , decided to split up after becoming too unwieldy to manage well. Under the new plan, Toshiba will spin off its energy systems, infrastructure systems, building, digital, and battery businesses to create one entity called Infrastructure Service Co.

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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

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This service allows users to pick up and drop off a vehicle at any legal public parking spot, including metered locations, within a 13 sq. This service will be available in Q1 2019. These cars will be available for rental by residents as a paid service at competitive rates. mile “Home Zone.”

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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. Fully homomorphic encryption is an automated solution to get around legal and regulatory issues while still protecting privacy,” says Kurt Rohloff , CEO of Duality Technologies , in Hoboken, N.J., one of the companies developing FHE accelerator chips.

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