From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
By Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London When disasters involving technology occur, human error is often given as the reason, but even experts make mistakes...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | November 3, 2024 at 08:31 AM
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by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London The nurse types in a dose of 100.1 mg [milligrams] of a powerful drug and presses start. It duly injects 1001 mg...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | August 14, 2024 at 04:30 AM
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