Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here are a couple of articles looking at the issues raised around Google’s AI chatbot, LaMDA (language model for dialog applications), because Blake Lemoine, an engineer working with the system, has claimed LaMDA is sentient. Google was not pleased – they suspended Blake, for publishing confidential company property. Google does …
I really wanted to include this in last week’s Platinum Jubilee Technology series, but neither Steve Jobs or Tim Cook were born in 1952 and I could not find any other 1952 link, so here it is as a “Because It’s Friday” blog: Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on | …
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The BBC Inside Science, radio show, went to their archives to look at science and technology over the last 70 years. BBC Inside Science – A Reign of Science – BBC Sounds I was also born in 1961, and it is interesting to listen to the bit about “…back then, …
I have written before about the security limitations of “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. Many of them are simple devices, possibly based on older tech, they tend to lack the hardware to allow for regular security updates, etc, etc etc. At least the UK Government is enacting laws to make …
In 1952 one of the first computer games was programmed and run on a computer the size of your house! Alexander Douglas was studying at Cambridge University for a PhD, when he wrote a simulation of Noughts and Crosses (known in other places as ‘Tic-Tac-Toe’), as part of his thesis …
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