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What Fire Ants Can Teach Us

A few years ago I stood on an amazingly picturesque hill in Costa Rica overlooking Lake Arenal. I closed my eyes, taking in the warmth of the sun. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain. I looked down to see a virtual onslaught of red fire ants…

NIST Framework to Evolve

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) framework defines specific cyber workforce roles. They recently added new competency areas and updated skills and tasks to help agencies better understand and meet their cyber…

The Placebo Effect of AI

A new study from Aalto University in Finland suggests that people perform better when they use AI because they expect to perform better. During the research, participants completed a simple letter recognition exercise. They did the task…

Can Schmaltz be Energy Storage?

When I read that scientists are converting chicken fat into energy storage devices, I immediately thought of Schmaltz. Researchers published an ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces report on a method to transform chicken fat into…

Is AI Already a Bad Actor?

You might be surprised by some of AI's shenanigans. Did you know that many AI systems already deceive humans, even ones trained to be helpful and honest? An article published in the journal Patterns describes how researchers analyze the…

Apple’s New M4 Chip

Apple just announced the M4, its latest chip, designed to deliver phenomenal performance to the new iPad Pro. Based on second-generation 3-nanometer technology, the system on a chip (SoC) advances the power efficiency of Apple silicon and…