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The Hacker News

• Alert: Hackers Exploit Barracuda Email Security Gateway 0-Day Flaw for 7 Months
• Hackers Win $105,000 for Reporting Critical Security Flaws in Sonos One Speakers
• CAPTCHA-Breaking Services with Human Solvers Helping Cybercriminals Defeat Security
• Implementing Risk-Based Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation
• Sneaky DogeRAT Trojan Poses as Popular Apps, Targets Indian Android Users

Computer Science in the News

• Using Algorithms to Deliver Disaster Aid
• In Memoriam: William A. Wulf
• Making Connections
• Standards to Secure the Sensors That Power IoT
• Better Algorithms through Faster Math

USATODAY – Tech Top Stories

• Shop the best 55+ deals available at Walmart—save on Samsung, Beats and more
• Abode's new wireless doorbell is full of value, with a few caveats
• The new Amazon Echo Pop is stylish, affordable, and offers good sound for small spaces
• Stay in shape with the Fitbit Charge 5 on sale at Best Buy for 20% off
• What does 'WTV' mean? The definition of the texting abbreviation, plus how to use it

Internet

• Team sets new speed record for industry standard optical fiber
• Amazon's answer to ChatGPT seen as incomplete
• Swiss gov't favors compensation for journalistic 'snippets' posted by online services
• ChatGPT and other generative AI could foster science denial and misunderstanding—here's how you can be on alert
• The rules for Afterpay, Zip and other 'buy now, pay later' providers are changing. What it means for you, and them

Software

• Digital product upgrades: Beware of imposing learning costs on users
• A software package to ease the use of neural radiance fields in robotics research
• Wish you could tweak that text? WhatsApp is letting users edit messages
• Brute-force test attack bypasses Android biometric defense
• Gamers rush to get Nintendo's new 'Zelda' after six-year wait

BBC Technology News

• Elon Musk: Tesla boss on first China trip in over three years
• AI 'godfather' Yoshua Bengio feels 'lost' over life's work
• Nvidia briefly worth $1 trillion thanks to AI boom
• Elizabeth Holmes: Inside the routine at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas
• Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes begins 11-year prison sentence

Law Technology Today

• 3 Tips for Picking Right Bookkeeper
• AI in Legal: Leveraging Automation Tools to Bolster the Bottom Line
• Three Important Bookkeeping Reports
• Seven Best Practices for Accounts Receivable Collections
• The Importance and Value of Lead Disposition

Semiconductors

• Dutch firm ASML perfecting 'microchip shrink' for tech giants
• Transfer technique produces wearable gallium nitride gas sensors
• New manufacturing process for SiC power devices opens market to more competition
• Novel technique measures warpage in next-gen integrated circuits
• Particles from outer space are wreaking low-grade havoc on personal electronics

Hardware

• An ultra-high-density and energy-efficient content addressable memory design based on 3D-NAND flash
• Developing a smart chip based on the human brain
• Breakthrough in computer chip energy efficiency could cut data center electricity use
• New transparent augmented reality display opens possibilities to see digital content in real-time
• Compression algorithms run on AI hardware to simulate nature's most complex systems

Wall Street Journal – Technology – What’s News

• Buying a Printer? Don't Make This Mistake
• AI Threat Placed on Par With Pandemics, Nuclear War
• Once Mighty Intel Struggles to Escape 'Mud Hole'
• The AI Boom Runs on Chips, but It Can't Get Enough
• Why Microsoft's $75 Billion Bid for Activision Hinges on Call of Duty

Phy.org – Technology

• New catalyst lowers cost for producing environmentally sustainable hydrogen from water
• A sustainable solution: Compostable wind turbine blades
• Advances in technology are driving popularity of electric vehicles, finds new research
• Team sets new speed record for industry standard optical fiber
• Research team designs brain-inspired device for optoelectronic computing

Technology and Business

• Foxconn sees AI driving strong server demand, but full year to be flat
• Edtech startup Scaler acquires Delhi-based Pepcoding​ for undisclosed amount
• China warns of artificial intelligence risks, calls for beefed-up national security measures
• China Telecom establishes quantum technology group
• Amazon workers upset over job cuts, return-to-office mandate stage walkout

Consumer & Gadgets

• Two 'Six Flags' parks rolling out Amazon-powered grab-and-go cashierless shops
• Opinion: AI could threaten some jobs, but it is more likely to become our personal assistant
• China's digital currency could threaten the US dollar. Should the Fed build its own?
• Energy industry apps improve efficiency
• Microsoft to bring Copilot, an AI personal assistant, to Windows

Science Daily – Computer & Internet

• Quantum scientists accurately measure power levels one trillion times lower than usual
• Scientists propose revolution in complex systems modelling with quantum technologies
• Boost for the quantum internet
• Wiring up quantum circuits with light
• New wireless system for greater 5G access

Computer Sciences

• Research team designs brain-inspired device for optoelectronic computing
• An ultra-high-density and energy-efficient content addressable memory design based on 3D-NAND flash
• A simple test reveals: Bot or human?
• Q&A: Expert discusses how to realistically achieve quantum speedups beyond the hype
• Researchers develop a self-supervised AI adaptation framework to enhance sensing accuracy of EMG devices

Science Daily – Technology

• Flexible nanoelectrodes can provide fine-grained brain stimulation
• Using AI to create better, more potent medicines
• Quest for alien signals in the heart of the Milky Way takes off
• New catalyst lowers cost for producing environmentally sustainable hydrogen from water
• Fastest industry standard optical fiber

Machine Learning & AI

• Machine learning approach for low-dose CT imaging yields superior results
• Team breaks world record for fast, accurate AI training

Robotics 

• Angry Robot signs two-book deal with Johnston in five-figure deal – The Bookseller
• This robot lawnmower wants to help return your yard to nature – Fast Company
• Who are the leading innovators in line follower robots for the … – Verdict
• Deputies in Montgomery County, Kansas end stand-off with help of … – KOKI FOX 23 TULSA
• Watch a 12-legged “myriapod” robot trek about in calm, curved lines – Cosmos

Science Daily – Hacking 

• Two qudits fully entangled
• Absolute zero in the quantum computer
• Qubits put new spin on magnetism: Boosting applications of quantum computers
• New breakthrough enables perfectly secure digital communications
• Are our pets leaking information about us?

Engineering

• Study: Source-shifting metastructures composed of only one resin for location camouflaging
• 'You can 3D print one material through another, as if it were invisible': New 3D printing technique
• Novel solar desalination system for remote areas developed
• An adaptive artificial cochlea that could enhance the performance of hearing aids
• Considering long-term economic and social side effects when building sustainable cities

Science Daily – Information Technology

• Fastest industry standard optical fiber
• New tool may help spot 'invisible' brain damage in college athletes
• Super low-cost smartphone attachment brings blood pressure monitoring to your fingertips
• Protein-based nano-'computer' evolves in ability to influence cell behavior
• Team develops new 'attacker' device to improve autonomous car safety