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CSIS director says China’s concerted effort to steal Canadian technology is ‘mind-boggling’

25/12/2024 avi maxwel

Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director David Vigneault prepares to appear before the Special Committee on the Canada–People’s Republic of China Relationship, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on April 29.Justin Tang/The Canadian Press

Canada’s top spy says China’s concerted efforts to steal cutting-edge Canadian technology is mind-boggling, and is designed to build the People’s Liberation Army as a formidable force against Western interests.

David Vigneault, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told MPs on the Canada-China committee Monday that Chinese hacking and other espionage activities have become a serious threat since Xi Jinping became president in 2012.

Canada and other wealthy Western countries have been targeted by People’s Republic of China actors to obtain high-end technology, he said.

“The statistics is mind-boggling in terms of the amount of attempts against government institutions every day. But more and more we see that those entities

Young people turning to AI therapist bots

24/12/2024 avi maxwel

By Joe TidyCyber correspondent

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Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin.

These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai – a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on fictional or real people.

It uses the same type of AI tech as the ChatGPT chatbot but, in terms of time spent, is more popular.

And one bot has been more in demand than those above, called Psychologist.

A total of 78 million messages, including 18 million since November, have been shared with the bot since it was created by a user called Blazeman98 just over a year ago.

Character.ai did not say how many individual users that is for the bot, but says 3.5 million people visit the overall site daily.

The bot has been described as “someone who helps with life difficulties”.

How NASA uses simple technology to track lunar missions

21/12/2024 avi maxwel

This photograph shows a mockup laser retroreflector array (LRA) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, demonstrating the basic design: a metallic semi-hemispheric disk, with eight silica glass cubes embedded in its surface. NASA/Goddard

NASA is using a simple but effective technology called Laser Retroreflective Arrays (LRAs) to determine the locations of lunar landers more accurately. They will be attached to most of the landers from United States companies as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Service (CLPS) initiative. LRAs are inexpensive, small, and lightweight, allowing future lunar orbiters or landers to locate them on the moon.

These devices consist of a small aluminum hemisphere, 2 inches (5 centimeters) in diameter and 0.7 ounces (20 grams) in weight, inset with eight 0.5-inch-diameter (1.27-centimeter) corner cube retroreflectors made of fused silica glass. LRAs are targeted for inclusion on most of the upcoming CLPS deliveries headed to the lunar surface.

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Future quantum computers will be no match for ‘space encryption’ that uses light to beam data around — with the 1st satellite launching in 2025

18/12/2024 avi maxwel

By converting data into light particles and beaming them around the world using satellites, we could prevent encrypted messages from being intercepted by a superpowerful quantum computer, scientists claim.

Currently, messaging technology relies on mathematical, or cryptographic, methods of protection, including end-to-end encryption. This technology is used in WhatsApp — as well as by corporations, the government and the military — to protect sensitive data from being intercepted.

Encryption works by scrambling data or text into what appears to be nonsense, using an algorithm and a key that only the sender and recipient can use to unlock the data. These algorithms can, in theory, be cracked. But they are designed to be so complex that even the fastest supercomputers would take millions of years to translate the data into something readable.

Quantum computers change the equation. Although the field is young, scientists predict that such machines will be powerful

SandboxAQ Puts a Quantum Twist on AI Technology

15/12/2024 avi maxwel

Just when you thought you had a handle on artificial intelligence (AI), here comes a twist on the technology. Because AI is being merged with quantum computing ahead of schedule. The result could have significant implications for financial services as well as other verticals.

“The physical world is defined by quantum mechanics,” Chris Hume, senior director of business operations for SandboxAQ, told PYMNTS. “The more effectively we can understand those interactions and then model those interactions, the more efficiently and effectively you can build predictive models. With the algorithms that we’re developing combined with the classical computer hardware that’s available today, you can build better predictive models, and that’s the exciting part. And that’s the opportunity at hand.”

SandboxAQ has termed its AI-quantum computing hybrid AQ. Quantum computing as a holistic approach to data is years away and, as Hume said, even scientists who work on quantum computing