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The article reports the ACM A.M. Turing Award recognizing Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard for foundational contributions to quantum information science, including quantum cryptography via BB84. It highlights the impact of their work on secure quantum communication and information processing, with implications for cybersecurity and post-quantum readiness.
Meta AI unveils Omnilingual MT (OMT), a machine translation system that supports 1,600 languages by combining public multilingual data with new datasets and advanced evaluation art…
The article recounts diagnosing and patching an eBPF spinlock issue in the Linux kernel affecting a ring-buffer used by a CPU profiler. It details the race between two eBPF program…
The Ars Technica piece analyzes on-device age-verification tech used by Discord's partners, focusing on privacy and trust issues after a data breach. It covers on-device facial age…
Google DeepMind introduces a cognitive framework to measure progress toward AGI using a 10 cognitive abilities taxonomy. It outlines a three-stage evaluation protocol and launches …