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Pentagon bets $15B on artificial intelligence to outthink adversaries

AI is reshaping warfare, compressing decision cycles and driving a new era of algorithm-driven strikes and cyber operations.
Scientific Research Publishing

The Grover Dilemma and Three Fundamental Barriers to Oracle-Based Quantum Search Algorithms ()

Those that solve artificially simplified problems where quantum advantage is meaningless. Those that provide no genuine quantum advantage when all costs are properly accounted for. This critique is ...
The New York Times

Under Trump, a Shift Toward ‘Absolute Immunity’ for ICE

Since the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, administration officials have defended the use of deadly force, which agency guidelines say should be a last resort. By Hamed Aleaziz and ...
The New York Times

In a Risky Gambit, Trump Tries Brute Force to Lower Prices

To assuage cost-weary voters and combat inflation, the president has resorted to a mix of threats and punishments, targeting companies and policymakers alike. By Tony Romm Reporting from Washington ...
Seattle Times

Trump, Venezuela and the doctrine of brute force

Apparently, in the world President Donald Trump is creating, it is perfectly fine for the leader of one country to deploy military forces to kidnap the leader of another country, so maybe the Danish ...
Wall Street Journal

China Developing Options to Threaten Taiwan With ‘Brute Force,’ Pentagon Says

China is making steady progress on developing more sophisticated weapons and expanding its armed force’s ability to operate away from the mainland, including against Taiwan, according to the ...
The Washington Post

‘Who Knows You by Heart’ captures the dark side of AI

The long afternoon reflections of most literary novelists pad behind the latest technology like a cat following a speeding car: The cat doesn’t have a chance — or any interest. Manuscripts might be ...
Aclu.org

Immigration Agents are Retaliating Against People Who Record Them

When ICE agents swarmed a man in the parking lot of Downey Memorial Christian Church in Los Angeles, the church pastor told the officers that they didn’t have permission to be on church property. When ...
The News-Gazette

Bob Asmussen | Air Force grad Miller leading Illini by example

Ben Miller will serve as the honorary captain for Saturday’s Illinois game against Maryland with the Air Force veteran a senior head coach analyst with the Illini program. Ben Miller during his ...
China Digital Times

Netizen Voices: Tencent’s Positive Energy Algorithm Task Force and the Perils of “Information Cocoons”

This week, a report at IT Home described recent corporate initiatives in the fight to promote "positive energy" and suppress "malicious" negativity online. (As China Media Project explains, "’Positive ...
C&EN

Symmetry-Constrained Monte Carlo for the Crystal Structure Prediction of Small Organic Molecules

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The prediction of crystal structures from the bare knowledge of molecular connectivity ...
CSOonline

Brute force attacks hitting SonicWall firewall configuration backups

SonicWall is warning admins that recent brute force attacks on its firewall’s API service for cloud backup could have exposed backup configuration files stored in its cloud portal. Affected are ...