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College students demolish world record for fastest Rubik's cube robot

Popular Science

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Mitsubishi's bragging rights for designing the world's fastest Rubik's cube-solving robot have officially been stolen by a team of undergrads in Indiana. Earlier this month, Purdue University announced four collaborators in its Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) successfully designed and built a bot that not only set the new Guinness World Record--it absolutely demolished the multinational company's previous time. Meet Purdubik's Cube: a machine capable of completing a randomly shuffled Rubik's cube in just 0.103 seconds. At 1-2 times faster than the blink of a human eye, the feat is difficult to see, much less comprehend.


Urgent warning to Americans over 'dangerous' technology quietly rolled out in 80 airports

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Within seconds, you've been scanned, stored, and tracked--before even reaching airport security. Without ever handing over your ID, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) already knows exactly who you are. This is happening at 84 airports across the US. And chances are, you didn't even notice. Marketed as a tool to enhance security, TSA's facial recognition system is drawing criticism for its potential to track Americans from the terminal entrance to their final destination.


My Coworkers Keep Taking This Stupid Shortcut. I Am Filled With Rage.

Slate

Good Job is Slate's advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? I am a hard-line hater of generative AI (ChatGPT, Midjourney, etc.). I think it's bad for the environment and bad for society. It burns water resources, exploits workers in the global south, plagiarizes art and writing, and eliminates badly needed entry-level jobs.


CLDA: Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation (Supplementary Material)

Neural Information Processing Systems

The supplementary material consists of the following. Additional Results of the DomainNet dataset for 5 and 10-shot settings with Resnet34 as backbone network are shown in Table 1. Results are reported in Tables 2 and 3 Discussion on Limitations and Societal Impacts. The architecture of the network is similar to [2]. All other hyperparameters used in our framework are described in the main paper.


AI agent adoption is driving increases in opportunities, threats, and IT budgets

ZDNet

In an AI-powered economy, data security is not just a box-checking exercise. Instead, security is the catalyst for trust and innovation within your organization and with your customers. That's the conclusion from the State of IT report from Salesforce, which surveyed over 4,000 IT decision-makers worldwide, including more than 2,000 professionals specializing in security, privacy, or compliance. The survey aimed to understand fast-evolving cyber threats and security priorities, suggesting how to build customer trust in an AI-driven world and use AI to improve security postures. According to the State of IT survey, the top five most concerning security threats are cloud security, data poisoning, malware, phishing, and ransomware. The top five most effective security tactics are data encryption, data backup and restore, identity and access management, zero-trust strategies, and data masking.


Monte-Carlo Planning in Continuous Space MDPs with Non-Asymptotic Analysis ECE and CSL University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tamer BaลŸar ORIE

Neural Information Processing Systems

Monte-Carlo planning, as exemplified by Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), has demonstrated remarkable performance in applications with finite spaces. In this paper, we consider Monte-Carlo planning in an environment with continuous state-action spaces, a much less understood problem with important applications in control and robotics.


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Mashable

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