Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone

As the joke goes, CRQC has been 10 to 20 years away for the past three decades. While the recent research suggests that ...
NPR

New limits for rent algorithm that prosecutors say let landlords drive up prices

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...
financefeeds

Good and Bad Crypto Algorithms Explained Simply

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...
Frontiers

Secure latent Dirichlet allocation

Topic modelling refers to a popular set of techniques used to discover hidden topics that occur in a collection of documents. These topics can, for example, be used to categorize documents or label ...
Frontiers

Improving optimal prompt learning through multilayer fusion and latent dirichlet allocation

Recent advances in few-shot learning have demonstrated the potential of prompt-based techniques with pre-trained models, eliminating the need for extensive fine-tuning. However, challenges such as ...
C&EN

Using Machine Learning and Optical Microscopy Image Analysis of Immunosensors Made on Plasmonic Substrates: Application to Detect the SARS-CoV-2 Virus

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. In this article, we introduce a diagnostic platform comprising an optical microscopy ...
The Conversation

When AI plays favourites: How algorithmic bias shapes the hiring process

A public interest group filed a U.S. federal complaint against artificial intelligence hiring tool, HireVue, in 2019 for deceptive hiring practices. The software, which has been adopted by hundreds of ...