Technology Internet Japan's favorite beer is in peril Asahi Super Dry's manufacturer is suffering from a major cyberattack. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Japan is facing a serious beer crisis. The emergency began on Monday, September 29 when the makers of the country's most popular brew Asahi Super Dry announced it had suffered a massive cyberattack resulting in a nationwide "system failure." The immediate fallout included a temporary shutdown of nearly all of Asahi Group's 30 domestic breweries, as well a pause in ordering and shipping across Japan.

Microsoft ends Windows 10 support in October, prompting users to upgrade to Windows 11 with proper file transfer and data migration planning.

The Download: using AI to discover "zero day" vulnerabilities, and Apple's ICE app removal Microsoft says AI can create "zero day" threats in biology A team at Microsoft says it used artificial intelligence to discover a zero day vulnerability in the biosecurity systems used to prevent the misuse of DNA. These screening systems are designed to stop people from purchasing genetic sequences that could be used to create deadly toxins or pathogens. But now researchers say they have figured out how to bypass the protections in a way previously unknown to defenders. Now we've got to see if they work . The US Attorney General requested it take down ICEBlock--and Apple complied. Its alerts about teenagers' concerning conversations also took hours to deliver.

Are internet rumours of a comet hurtling towards Earth true? Rumours across social media platforms that a huge comet is on a collision course with Earth have been circulating, with some users describing it as a major threat to humanity. Others are debating how the comet - known as 3I/ATLAS and detected by NASA's ATLAS telescope on July 1 - might be diverted from the Earth. Some have even gone so far as to highlight "news" of military movements and an international coordination to counter the comet before impact, prompting further alarm. So is there any truth to these rumours and what do we know for sure?

We develop a framework that leverages the smoothed complexity analysis by Spielman and Teng [60] to circumvent paradoxes and impossibility theorems in social choice, motivated by modern applications of social choice powered by AI and ML. For Condrocet's paradox, we prove that the smoothed likelihood of the paradox either vanishes at an exponential rate as the number of agents increases, or does not vanish at all. For the ANR impossibility on the non-existence of voting rules that simultaneously satisfy anonymity, neutrality, and resolvability, we characterize the rate for the impossibility to vanish, to be either polynomially fast or exponentially fast. We also propose a novel easy-to-compute tie-breaking mechanism that optimally preserves anonymity and neutrality for even number of alternatives in natural settings. Our results illustrate the smoothed possibility of social choice--even though the paradox and the impossibility theorem hold in the worst case, they may not be a big concern in practice.

First provide a summary of the paper, and then address the following criteria: Quality, clarity, originality and significance. The paper proposes a new approach for Mahalanobis metric learning for k-nearest neighbor (kNN) classification. The main difference from the existing work is in the way how k nearest neighbors are found. Instead of simply looking for the k nearest neighbors, the authors are searching for the closest k examples that also guarantee correct classification (the authors refer to it as the gerrymandering). They propose a greedy algorithm to find such a neighborhood.

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