A few items down in ACM technews.
Interesting that the anti-Chinese talk is opposite of his actions. And
does going into
Panama differ from Chinese invasion of Taiwan? Sigh.
JN
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The Trump administration has dismissed all members of the Cyber Safety
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established through an executive order by the
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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez
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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday,
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told attendees
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and democracy. "The owner of a small restaurant
is responsible if their food poisons customers; social media tycoons
should be held responsible if their algorithms
poison our society," he said.
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trump signs an executive order
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President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order revoking past
government policies on AI that “act as barriers to
American AI innovation.” To maintain global leadership, “We must
develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias
or engineered social agendas,” the order states. While the order does
not specify which policies are hindering AI
development, it calls for a review of “all policies, directives,
regulations, orders, and other actions taken” as a
result of the former administration's AI executive order.
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*Apple, Google Mobile Ecosystems Face U.K. Probe*
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The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating
whether Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems adhere to
that nation’s new Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act, a law
designed to curb the power of large tech
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like mobile phone operating systems, app stores,
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DeepSeek’s engineers said they needed only about 2,000 specialized
computer chips from the U.S. chipmaker Nvidia
*Chinese AI Startup Competes with Silicon Valley Giants*
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Chinese startup DeepSeek recently unveiled an AI system that could
match the capabilities of the latest chatbots from
companies like OpenAI and Google. In a research paper accompanying the
release of its DeepSeek-V3, the team explained
how they used about 2,000 specialized computer chips from Nvidia to
train their system. By comparison, the world’s
leading AI companies train their chatbots with supercomputers that use
as many as 16,000 chips, or more.
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Donald Trump gives a keynote speech at the Bitcoin 2024 conference
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which his administration will evaluate whether to
create a "national digital asset stockpile." The order also reversed a
Biden administration directive to research a
central bank digital currency (CBDC), claiming such currencies
"threaten the stability of the financial system,
individual privacy, and the sovereignty of the U.S."
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*Anil Jain, Michael I. Jordan Earn BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of
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Anil K. Jain of Michigan State University and Michael I. Jordan of the
University of California, Berkeley, won the
Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication
Technologies from the BBVA Foundation for “core
contributions” to machine learning, which have unlocked developments in
biometrics and AI. Jain’s research has focused
on pattern recognition, while Jordan’s efforts have focused on unified
algorithms for statistical and probabilistic
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An underwater robot developed by researchers in China
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An underwater robot developed by researchers at China's Harbin
Engineering University could allow scientists to study
seabeds without disturbing them. Featuring an angular acceleration
feedback control, the robot also has external
disturbance observation algorithms and sensors that can identify and
resist external disturbances and map out a course
in real time. The researchers say the robot could travel 20 centimeters
above the seafloor without disturbing it.
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/IEEE Spectrum; Liam Critchley (January 21, 2025)/
Lonestar says it is on track to be the first company to put data
storage and edge processing on the moon
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In late February, Lonestar Data Holdings plans to launch a fully
assembled datacenter on a trip to the Moon via SpaceX's
Falcon 9 rocket. The datacenter, which will integrate with an Athena
moon lander made by Intuitive Machines, will be
powered via solar energy and utilize solid-state drives that are cooled
naturally. Datacenter firm Flexential will
provide ground-based backup.
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*Self-learning Chip Mimics Brain Functions*
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A miniature computing chip developed by researchers in South Korea can
self-learn and correct errors much like the human
brain does. When processing video streams, for example, the chip
teaches itself how to separate moving objects from the
background, improving its performance over time. Researchers at the
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
said the new chip "is like a smart workspace where everything is within
reach instead of moving between a desk and a
filing cabinet."
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Open Quantum Design
*Open-Source Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer Unveiled*
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Canadian non-profit Open Quantum Design (OQD) has rolled out an
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with the goal of making quantum hardware, software, and educational
materials freely available. The first partners to
join OQD's platform include Canada's University of Waterloo and Xanadu
Quantum Technologies, the nonprofit Unitary
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computing, including a lack of hardware access and skilled talent.
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*EU Asks X for Internal Documents About Algorithms*
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The European Commission has asked X for internal documents related to
its "recommender system" algorithms, as it
investigates whether the social media platform has breached EU rules on
content moderation. X has been under
investigation since December 2023 under the EU’s Digital Services Act
over how it tries to control the spread of illegal
content and information manipulation.
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