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Anker announces Thus, a compute-in-memory chip it says will bring on-device AI to its products and accessories, starting with its upcoming Soundcore earbuds (John Higgins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/916463/anker-thus-chip-announcement

Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products
The Thus chip will come to earbuds first before being rolled out to other Anker products.

Wanna know why #psycholinguistics is so fascinating?
In a 2001 #experiment participants saw sentences like
"While Mary dressed the baby played in the crib."
Then they had to answer the question:
"Did Mary dress the baby?"
Up to 51% of all answers where "Yes!" – and participants were *very* confident about their answers.
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Original paper:
Christianson, Kiel & Hollingworth, Andrew & Halliwell, John F. & Ferreira, Fernanda (2001). Thematic Roles Assigned along the Garden Path Linger. Cognitive Psychology 42(4). 368–407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.2001.0752
Also a fascinating read:
Ferreira, Fernanda & Bailey, Karl G.D. & Ferraro, Vittoria (2002). Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science 11(1). 11–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00158

Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum and Rust Edition
[…] Cryptography is everywhere and as a developer you will need to upgrade your projects with post-quantum algorithms, whether because you care about the security of your users, or for compliance reasons. […]
🦀 https://kerkour.com/post-qua…

Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum and Rust Edition
There recently has been a lot of noise about quantum computing breakthroughs recently after Google's articles Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear and Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum

NFL Confidential: How is Dexter Lawrence Trade Impacting Draft? Execs, Scouts Weigh in https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-confidential-how-dexter-lawrence-trade-impacting-draft-execs-scouts-weigh

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Confidence Man:
🎵 Angry Girl (CHAI version)
#ConfidenceMan
https://confidenceman.bandcamp.com/track/angry-girl-chai-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/2PXULQ9Lo1AmU7eMnnBnxp

Reading https://www.ideou.com/en-gb/blogs/inspiration/how-to-not-know-simone-stolzoff and wondering if people's low tolerance for uncertainty is why people would rather a confident but possibly wrong answer from a chatbot than trust their own judgement …

How to Stop Fighting Uncertainty & Start Working With It
Learn how to build uncertainty tolerance, avoid the three certainty traps, and lead more effectively when you don't have all the answers, with insights from author Simone Stolzoff.

My department is looking to hire a professor of practice in CS, with a focus on AI. Job posting below. If you have questions I'll do my best to answer them, else find someone who can! We are in Providence, easy commute access from Boston.
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Professor of the Practice in Computer Science with a Focus on Artificial Intelligence - Providence, Rhode Island job with Computer Science | 37970844
The Department of Computer Science at Brown University is seeking applicants for a Professor of the Practice position at the assistant, associate, ...

'Never use double for money' is dogma, not engineering.
Guest author Stefano Fago breaks down when double, BigDecimal, or fixed-point is the right call, and the production traps that quietly undo each one.
https://blog.frankel.ch/bigdecimal-vs-double/

2026 NFL season: What We Learned during final wave of minicamps https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-season-what-we-learned-during-final-wave-of-minicamps

«KI-Modelle sind anfällig für wiederholte Angriffe:
Laut Forschern von Cisco versagen KI-Modelle bei realistischen Multi-Turn-Angriffen und lassen an Sicherheits-Benchmarks auf Basis weniger Prompts zweifeln.»
Der moderne Widerspruch ist die KI oder was ist es sonnst? So klug wie KI angeboten wird ist es einfach nicht.
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KI-Modelle sind anfällig für wiederholte Angriffe
Laut Forschern von Cisco versagen KI-Modelle bei realistischen Multi-Turn-Angriffen und lassen an Sicherheits-Benchmarks auf Basis weniger Prompts zweifeln.