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Google Comes Out Against a 'Department of A.I.'

As the company explains, pre-market licensing would delay—or even deny—our access to artificial intelligence's potential benefits.

Reason

A Florida condo tower's collapse may have begun on its pool deck

The accident in Surfside, Fla., killed 98 people two years ago. Now a federal team says the condo's concrete columns and pool deck were constructed improperly and didn't meet building codes.

WEKU

Microsoft outlines its 'AI Customer Commitments' to keep artificial intelligence in check

Microsoft just shared three areas it will help customers implement and develop artificial intelligence.

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400 chunks of concrete may explain what caused a deadly building collapse in Florida

Investigators with the National Institute of Standards and Technology will begin testing concrete cores and reinforcing steel in a search for answers from the Surfside, Fla., condo collapse.

WEKU

How To Restrain the A.I. Regulators

A more flexible model of oversight avoids hyper-cautious top-down regulation and enables swifter access to the substantial benefits of safe A.I.

Reason

Would a 6-month A.I. pause help avoid serious problems?

Former presidential hopeful says companies must think before they enact A.I. they (and we) cannot trust.

Fortune

UK risks losing out on hi-tech growth if it falters on AI regulation

The UK government has published a white paper on the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI).

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GPT-4 is not 'the spark of AGI'

Giving language models the ability to take actions on the internet is risky, some experts say.

Fortune

What is the ‘steal now, crack later’ quantum computing threat?

The capabilities of quantum computing have been rapidly developing over the last decade, and are expected to mature over the next. By 2030, in fact, the industry widely expects commercial quantum computing offerings to be available in the mainstream. While the business use cases of quantum computing are being contemplated,…

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Quantum computers threaten our whole cybersecurity infrastructure: here's how scientists can bulletproof it

Thirteen, 53 and 433. That’s the size of quantum computers in terms of quantum bits, or qubits, which has significantly grown in the last years due to important public and private investments and initiatives. Obviously, it is not only a mere question of quantity: the quality of the prepared qubits…

The Conversation

Researchers say time is an illusion. So why are we all obsessed with it?

Even guardians of America's atomic clocks say time doesn't work the way we think it does.

WEKU

University of Louisville to host Kentucky's next manufacturing resource center

WEKU

Climber Who Competed Without Her Hijab Apologizes as Protests Continue To Rock Iran

Plus: Bite mark analysis is a sham, tax code adjusted for inflation, and more...

Reason

Federal Report Adds to the Evidence That Bitemark Analysis Is Nonsense

Forensic techniques are nowhere near as reliable as cops shows pretend.

Reason

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White House tightens rules on federal software purchases

WASHINGTON — The Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday issued new guidelines that require all federal agencies to buy and use only software that complies with development and security processes approved by the federal government.

Roll Call

White House tightens rules on federal software purchases - Roll Call

The OMB on Wednesday directed federal agencies to buy software only from vendors that attest to meeting government security standards.

Benzinga

A Federal Standards Handbook Now Contains Weights And Measures For Marijuana

As a result of a vote that state and local officials took at a conference last week, a federal government handbook on weights and measures which mentions marijuana standards in a new section has been made available.

Axios

Cause of Surfside building's collapse remains elusive after a year

Conclusions could take at least another year.

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The Independent UK

Florida building collapse probe to begin structural testing

The federal investigation into the deadly collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building is entering a new phase that involves cutting and drilling into concrete and steel to determine what role they played

Miami Herald

‘We have ruled out nothing’: In Surfside condo collapse probe, findings still far away

MIAMI — A federal investigation into the Champlain Towers South building collapse likely won’t conclude until 2024, about three years after the Surfside disaster in which investigators say they have “ruled out nothing.”

Tribune News Service

Pilot testing program in Maryland could save life and limb as new illegal drug danger emerges

BALTIMORE — A young woman in a pink hoodie and a blond bun clutched a plastic bag filled with 20 fresh syringes and a box of naloxone, the antidote to opioid overdoses. Jason Bienert, a wound care nurse at a needle exchange program in Cecil County, noticed her bandaged hand…

Reason

Pandemic Restrictions Extra Painful for Businesses Owned by Minorities, Women, and Veterans

Limited resources create enormous vulnerability.

Asharq Al-Awsat

How World’s Most Precise Clock Could Transform Fundamental Physics

US scientists have measured Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity -- which holds that gravity slows time down -- at the smallest scale ever, demonstrating that clocks tick at different rates when separated by fractions of a millimeter. Jun Ye, of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and…

Miami Herald

Parties in the Surfside condo collapse lawsuit could soon gain access to evidence from site

MIAMI — Since the deadly Surfside condo collapse more than seven months ago, any clues hidden in the debris that would shed light on what went wrong at Champlain Towers South have been kept under the sole watch of federal investigators. But that is likely about to change.

Miami Herald

Feds try to block victims of Surfside condo collapse from accessing crucial evidence

MIAMI — After the deadly Surfside condo collapse, crucial pieces of evidence — including portions of columns, beams and slabs — were trucked away from the disaster site and stored in a Miami-Dade police warehouse.

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