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It’s not often you encounter a device that looks like it came straight out of a movie set. But Lenovo’s Project Crystal, supposedly the world’s first laptop with a transparent microLED display, is an example of sci-fi come to life.

Currently there are no plans to turn Project Crystal into a retail product. Instead Lenovo’s latest concept device was commissioned by its ThinkPad division to explore the potential of transparent microLED panels and AI integration. The most obvious use case would be sharing info somewhere, like a doctor’s office or a hotel desk. Instead of needing to flip a screen around, you could simply reverse the display via software, allowing anyone on the other side to see it while getting an in-depth explanation.

 

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Russian hackers and cybercrime forums are notorious for exploiting critical infrastructure. Last month, Hackread.com exclusively reported that a Russian-speaking threat actor was selling access to a US military satellite. Now, researchers have identified macOS malware being sold for $60,000.

 

Via Gust MEES

The NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has completed its test run of secure communication flows that could withstand attackers using quantum computing.

Konrad Wrona, principal scientist at the NCSC, told ZDNet that it is becoming increasingly important to create protection schemes against current and future threats.  

"Securing NATO's communications for the quantum era is paramount to our ability to operate effectively without fear of interception," Wrona said. 

"The trial started in March 2021. The trial was completed in early 2022. Quantum computing is becoming more and more affordable, scalable and practical. The threat of 'harvest now, decrypt later' is one all organizations, including NATO, are preparing to respond to.

 

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Via Gust MEES

Now a team of Google researchers has published a proposal for a radical redesign that throws out the ranking approach and replaces it with a single large AI language model—a future version of BERT or GPT-3. The idea is that instead of searching for information in a vast list of web pages, users would ask questions and have a language model trained on those pages answer them directly. The approach could change not only how search engines work, but how we interact with them.

 

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In response to the disclosure of vulnerabilities in Tor's design, researchers at MIT have created Riffle, a system that allegedly provides better security and uses bandwidth more efficiently.

 

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Après le web qui a révolutionné notre façon de communiquer et de consommer, la mobilité qui a permis d'y avoir accès partout ou presque : les objets connectés sont la troisième révolution numérique.

 

Cette nouvelle technologie de rupture pourrait mener a une transformation fondamentale de notre expérience de l'objet, une expérience qui marque l'évolution de la culture humaine. les objets connectes deviendront intelligents, voir vivants, et seront envisagé plutôt comme des services et non comme des objets individuels. De quoi aura l'air un futur envisagé par ce paradigme innovant d'objet en réseau ? Et nos objets d'art? Comment ceci transformera notre expérience des objets d'art, et nos objets d'arts?

 

14h00 - Séance inaugurale et présentation de l'initiative.
Olga Kisseleva, Tsila Hassine.
14h30 - Qu'est l'internet des objets entre art et marche ?
Rafi Haladjian, Julien Levesque.
15h30 - La pensée de l'objet connecté.
Stephen Wright, Albertine Meunier
16h30 - Objet d'art - service d'art ?
Naziha Mestaoui, Emmanuel Mahé

Comite scientifique : Olga Kisseleva, artiste et chercheur, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS / Tsila Hassine, artiste et doctorante, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / Marta Ponsa, responsable du service « projets artistiques et action culturelle » Centre d 'art contemporain Jeu de Paume / Margherita Balzerani, Directrice de l'Institut des Métiers d'Art et du Patrimoine / Julie Miguirditchian, commissaire d'exposition / Isabelle Arvers, commissaire d'exposition et chercheur, Université libre de Bruxelles

Via Jacques Urbanska

I worked on a writing assignment regarding the cost of accessing publicly funded research articles when I was at the Banff Science Communications Program. One of the instructors told me that this issue had been covered quite extensively, so I did some research - and yes indeed, the issue was well-discussed in US and UK (mostly through the science sections of the New York Times and the Guardians), but there were very few mentions of it in Canada. This article reminds me how disappointed I was (and continue to be). Is there anything we can do to change the situation?

 

"The Globe and Mail doesn’t have a science section. Neither does the National Post. Add to this the fact that there are no dedicated Canadian science magazines for the general public, and it starts to become obvious why Canadians rarely hear about groundbreaking science research done across the country."

Via Theresa Liao

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of our series here.

This time last year we did something reckless. In an industry where nothing stands still, we had a go at predicting the future. 

 

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Researchers jailbreak AI chatbots, including ChatGPT
Like a magic wand that turns chatbots evil.

 

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The tech world, Burger explained, was moving into a new orbit. In the future, a few giant Internet companies would operate a few giant Internet services so complex and so different from what came before that these companies would have to build a whole new architecture to run them. They would create not just the software driving these services, but the hardware, including servers and networking gear. Project Catapult would equip all of Microsoft’s servers—millions of them—with specialized chips that the company could reprogram for particular tasks.

Via Gust MEES

The web is a little fucked up right now. Governments are spying on civilians, some block specific websites, and companies like Amazon have a stranglehold on the cloud services business. But what if we could create a decentralized web, with more privacy, less government control, and less corporate influence?

 

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