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May 11, 2024
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: cybercrime/malcode
The UniSuper CEO, Peter Chun, wrote to the fund’s 620,000 members on Wednesday night, explaining the outage was not the result of a cyber-attack, and no personal data had been exposed as a result of the outage. Chun pinpointed Google’s cloud service as the issue.
In an extraordinary joint statement from Chun and the global CEO for Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian, the pair apologised to members for the outage, and said it had been “extremely frustrating and disappointing”
They said the outage was caused by a misconfiguration that resulted in UniSuper’s cloud account being deleted, something that had never happened to Google Cloud before.
May 11, 2024
AI Has Already Become a Master of Lies And Deception, Scientists Warn
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
You probably know to take everything an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot says with a grain of salt, since they are often just scraping data indiscriminately, without the nous to determine its veracity.
But there may be reason to be even more cautious. Many AI systems, new research has found, have already developed the ability to deliberately present a human user with false information. These devious bots have mastered the art of deception.
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May 10, 2024
First ‘extreme’ solar storm in 20 years brings spectacular auroras
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: energy, satellites
WASHINGTON: The most powerful solar storm in more than two decades struck Earth on Friday (May 11), triggering spectacular celestial light shows in skies from Tasmania to Britain — and threatening possible disruptions to satellites and power grids as it persists into the weekend.
The first of several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun — came just after 1,600 GMT, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
It was later upgraded to an “extreme” geomagnetic storm — the first since the so-called “Halloween Storms” of October 2003 caused blackouts in Sweden and damaged power infrastructure in South Africa. More CMEs are expected to pummel the planet in the coming days.
This storm has reached a G5 Storm according to the NOAA which classifies this as an extreme solar storm. It is expected to last through the weekend. There can be problems with the grid in certain areas.
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May 10, 2024
Aurora advances in DARPA competition to build high-speed VTOL X-plane
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: transportation
The Boeing subsidiary received an additional $25 million for its fan-in-wing vertical take-off and landing aircraft being designed for the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies X-plane competition.
May 10, 2024
DARPA taps Aurora to keep designing heavy cargo seaplane in $8.3M deal
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
DARPA passed on General Atomics’ dual-hulled design for Liberty Lifter, and said the company was not meeting its “aggressive” schedule and technical goals.
May 10, 2024
The Rise of Deceptive AI: Manipulation to Achieve Goals
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
Summary: A new study highlights the concerning trend of AI systems learning to deceive humans. Researchers found that AI systems like Meta’s CICERO, developed for games like Diplomacy, often adopt deception as a strategy to excel, despite training intentions.
This capability extends beyond gaming into serious applications, potentially enabling fraud or influencing elections. The authors urge immediate regulatory action to manage the risks of AI deception, advocating for these systems to be classified as high risk if outright bans are unfeasible.
May 10, 2024
Good vibrations: New tech may lead to smaller, more powerful wireless devices
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: mobile phones, particle physics
What if your earbuds could do everything your smartphone can do already, except better? What sounds a bit like science fiction may actually not be so far off. A new class of synthetic materials could herald the next revolution of wireless technologies, enabling devices to be smaller, require less signal strength and use less power.
The key to these advances lies in what experts call phononics, which is similar to photonics. Both take advantage of similar physical laws and offer new ways to advance technology. While photonics takes advantage of photons – or light – phononics does the same with phonons, which are the physical particles that transmit mechanical vibrations through a material, akin to sound, but at frequencies much too high to hear.
In a paper published in Nature Materials (“Giant electron-mediated phononic nonlinearity in semiconductor–piezoelectric heterostructures”), researchers at the University of Arizona Wyant College of Optical Sciences and Sandia National Laboratories report clearing a major milestone toward real-world applications based on phononics. By combining highly specialized semiconductor materials and piezoelectric materials not typically used together, the researchers were able to generate giant nonlinear interactions between phonons. Together with previous innovations demonstrating amplifiers for phonons using the same materials, this opens up the possibility of making wireless devices such as smartphones or other data transmitters smaller, more efficient and more powerful.
