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Duke professor becomes second recipient of AAAI Squirrel AI Award for pioneering socially responsible AI.

Whether preventing explosions on electrical grids, spotting patterns among past crimes, or optimizing resources in the care of critically ill patients, Duke University computer scientist Cynthia Rudin wants artificial intelligence (AI) to show its work. Especially when it’s making decisions that deeply affect people’s lives.

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Asteroids seem to be a treasure trove for future space miners. 😃

Some are full of precious metals worth many trillions of dollars and with more copper, nickel and cobalt than the entirety of our metal reserves.

The two mineral deposits measure over a mile wide and could be targets for future space mining.

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Plus: The biggest Twitch hack, an iOS zero day, and more of the week’s top security news.

Nature waded through the literature on the coronavirus — and summarized key papers as they appeared.

The U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) issues a warning about cyber threats targeting wastewater and water systems.

AllBlock ad-blocking plugins for Chrome and Opera were discovered injecting advertisements into Google search results pages.

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is tracking more than 270 government-backed threat actors from more than 50 countries.

As many as 130 different ransomware families have been found to be active in 2020 and the first half of 2,021 with Israel, South Korea, Vietnam, China, Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Iran, and the U.K. emerging as the most affected territories, a comprehensive analysis of 80 million ransomware-related samples has revealed.

Google’s cybersecurity arm VirusTotal attributed a significant chunk of the activity to the GandCrab ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group (78.5%), followed by Babuk (7.61%), Cerber (3.11%), Matsnu (2.63%), Wannacry (2.41%), Congur (1.52%), Locky (1.29%), Teslacrypt (1.12%), Rkor (1.11%), and Reveon (0.70%).

Developing quantum-gravity technologies may elevate us to a “class A” civilization, capable of creating a baby universe.

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