Advocacy groups urge YouTube to protect kids from ‘AI slop’ videos

Advocacy groups and experts condemned YouTube for serving up low-quality artificial intelligence-generated videos to its most ...

Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require ...
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The Universal LZ77 Compression Algorithm Is Essentially Optimal for Individual Finite-Length

Abstract: Consider the case where consecutive blocks of N letters of a semi-infinite individual sequence X over a finite alphabet are being compressed into binary sequences by some one-to-one mapping.
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From Reel to Algorithm: How Streaming Changed What Gets Made in Canadian Film

In 2017, a Canadian screenwriter with two festival-screened features behind her spent eighteen months developing a crime drama with a major broadcaster. The project collapsed — not on creative grounds ...
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On Evaluation of Data Stream Clustering Algorithms: A Survey

Abstract: Data stream mining is a research area that has grown enormously in recent years. The main challenge is extracting knowledge in real-time from a possibly unbounded data stream. Clustering, a ...