Sat.Jan 14, 2023

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Researchers have created a new and potentially dangerous encryption-breaking quantum algorithm

TechSpot

Tsinghua University professor Long Guili and his team claim to have developed a new, qubit-saving factorization algorithm that could spell trouble for cryptographic security standards in the not-so-distant future. The algorithm, called sublinear-resource quantum integer factorization (SQIF), claims to optimize the quantum calculation process by reducing the number of qubits.

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These tech workers bring valuable lessons from the office to coaching kids’ sports — and back again

GeekWire

Textio co-founder and CEO Kieran Snyder coaches fifth and sixth grade girls basketball at Lakeside School in Seattle. (Photo courtesy of Kieran Snyder). Patience. Teamwork. Goal setting. A desire to compete. The place where you work and the buzzwords you hear might have a lot in common with what’s happening on a kids’ sports field near you.

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TSMC may cut 3nm wafer prices to entice AMD, Nvidia, others

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Sources have told MyDrivers that TSMC could lower the prices of 3nm chips to entice more manufacturing partners. The cut would apply to all of the company's 3nm processes, not just the inaugural N3.

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Seattle Schools vs. Social Media: What’s at stake in the suit against TikTok, Instagram, and others

GeekWire

GeekWire Illustration. Scanning through a list of court filings last Friday evening, Jan. 6, one case jumped out immediately: “SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1, Plaintiff, v. META PLATFORMS, INC., FACEBOOK HOLDINGS, LLC, INSTAGRAM, LLC, SNAP INC., TIKTOK INC., BYTEDANCE INC., ALPHABET INC., GOOGLE LLC, YOUTUBE, LLC,” it read, in part. As a tech reporter based in Seattle, that certainly got my attention, and I wasn’t alone.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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For one-stop shopping all year long, try Costco for $60 and get a $30 shop card back

TechSpot

If streamlining and optimizing tasks is your idea of a good time, why not bring that outlook to your errands by doing most of your shopping at the same place? From family gifts to everyday essentials to business needs, you can get much of your to-do list accomplished under one.

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