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Comment Sliding Down the Abstraction Pole (Score 0) 71

Failures of both model types at high complexity levels might be because neither can slide up and down the abstraction levels, the way human intelligence can. Solving these problems doesn’t just need more space, more speed, or more data — these problems need an “understanding” of the highest abstraction levels, and still be able to dive into lower levels, even down to the fundamentals.

Comment Re:Encouraging More Corruption (Score 1) 29

https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/061-0247-intel-corporation-matter
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6pppdz/intels_antitrust_practices_since_the_1980s/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/nov/04/intel-bribed-for-bribery-coercion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel

Submission + - WhatsApp Ordered To Help U.S. Agents Spy On Chinese Phones (forbes.com)

Submitted by HillNKnowlton22
HillNKnowlton22 writes: U.S. federal agencies have been using a 35-year-old American surveillance law to secretly track WhatsApp users with no explanation as to why and without knowing whom they are targeting. A just-unsealed government surveillance application reveals that in November 2021, DEA investigators demanded the Facebook-owned messaging company track seven users based in mainland China and Macau. The application reveals the DEA didn’t know the identities of any of the targets, but told WhatsApp to monitor the IP addresses and numbers with which the targeted users were communicating, as well as when and how they were using the app. Such surveillance is done using a technology known as a pen register and under the 1986 Pen Register Act, and doesn't seek any message content, which WhatsApp couldn’t provide anyway, as it is end-to-end encrypted. Over at least the last two years, law enforcement in the U.S. has repeatedly ordered WhatsApp and other tech companies to install these pen registers without showing any probable cause but instead showing only "elements" of justifications. “Other than the three elements described above, federal law does not require that an application for an order authorizing the installation and use of a pen register and a trap and trace device specify any facts,” the government wrote in the latest application. American agencies can, therefore, continue to carry out surveillance on users of one of the world’s most popular messaging apps without having to provide any reason, either to a judge or the public.

Submission + - Europe rolled out 5G without hurting aviation. Here's how (cnn.com) 2

Submitted by gollum123
gollum123 writes: Major international airlines are canceling flights to the United States over aviation industry fears that 5G technology could interfere with crucial onboard instruments. But it's business as usual in Europe, where the latest generation of high speed mobile networks is being rolled out without a hitch. Why is there a potential problem in the United States, but not Europe? It comes down to technical details. Mobile phone companies in the United States are rolling out 5G service in a spectrum of radio waves with frequencies between 3.7 and 3.98 GHz. The companies paid the US government $81 billion in 2021 for the right to use those frequencies, known as the C-Band. But in Europe, 5G services use the slower 3.4 to 3.8 GHz range of spectrum. There are other differences in how 5G is being rolled out, according to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Other countries are using lower power levels, restricting the placement of 5G antennas near airfields and requiring them to be tilted downward to limit potential interference with aircraft.

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