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Alan Turing’s famous ideas about artificial intelligence may have sent AI research down the wrong path for the past 75 years, according to prominent computer scientist Peter J. Denning. In his new book, Turing’s Mistake: Escaping the Yoke of Unintelligent Machines, Denning argues that two foundational assumptions made by Turing in 1950 continue to shape AI research today. The first is that intelligence can exist independently of a physical body and therefore be recreated in computer software. The second is that a machine can demonstrate intelligence by successfully imitating a human in conversation, an idea that later became known as…

One of our favorite topics on Smart Data Collective is how companies use data to make better choices about customers, operations, products, and growth. It is easy to focus on cloud platforms and dashboards, but many data-driven businesses still rely on USB drives to store, move, and back up files used for analytics.Serhii Kholin, the CEO of ONIX, wrote on Medium that only 29% of companies use data strategically. Something that makes this important is that companies need reliable access to their data no matter where it is stored, including USB drives used for reports, exports, field records, and backups.…

Picture a hospital during a busy shift. A physician opens a patient’s X-ray to plan what is next, but the image is slow to load and then stalls. The IT team wants to fix it right away, but they cannot easily tell whether the issue is the local Wi-Fi or the internet connection. When several providers each manage a different piece of the network, simply finding the source can take time. In medicine, that kind of lag is more than an inconvenience. It can delay a diagnosis and the care that follows. That scenario plays out because most distributed networks…

Ukraine’s computer emergency response team, CERT-UA, has warned that Russian hackers are using fake CAPTCHA checks to trick people into compromising their own PCs.The Kremlin-backed Sandworm hacking group is reportedly leveraging fake CAPTCHA checks on compromised websites that persuade users to execute a PowerShell command on their computers – tricking them into running malicious code.CERT-UA has attributed the attacks, which have surged this spring and summer against Ukrainian targets, to UAC-0145 – a branch of Sandworm, the hacking unit known for some of Russia’s most destructive cyber attacks in the past 10+ years, including ones against Ukraine’s power grid.The latest…

Posted by Wei Wang, Engineering Manager, Android BeTo User privacy and transparency are core to the Android experience. To better align with these principles, we are updating the default behavior of the Nearby Connections API regarding how it interacts with device radios. What is changing? Previously, the Nearby Connections API could automatically toggle Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios ON to facilitate connections without explicit user intervention. Moving forward, the API will no longer automatically enable these radios for 1P and 3P applications. What this means for developers If your app relies on Nearby Connections, you will need to update your implementation…

The “Tourist” Trap We all have “that” repository in our organization. The one written in 2005, built with Ant, using Java 1.5. It hasn’t been compiled since the Obama administration, and it certainly doesn’t run on your new Apple Silicon MacBook. When I inherited this “Brownfield” project, the temptation is to treat Generative AI as a universal translator. I paste the code into an LLM and ask the most natural question in the world: “How do I run this?” This is what I call the “Tourist Prompt.” Like a tourist visiting ancient ruins, I am asking for a guided tour…

AI agents have shown remarkable potential to function as persistent digital assistants that are capable of monitoring data, managing communications, and taking action autonomously over long periods. OpenClaw was one of the first serious attempts to fulfill that vision, connecting frontier coding agents to messaging platforms like Slack and WhatsApp and letting them run continuously in the background. However, OpenClaw largely set aside questions of security to pursue that vision, leaving credentials exposed in the agent’s environment and giving agents broad access to data and services far beyond what any given task required. NanoClaw is an open source project that…

New research from Monash University scientists has revealed that microscopic life is actively breaking down decades-old mining waste in South Australia, turning stable radioactive and toxic metals into mobile nanoparticles that can easily travel through the environment. Location and environmental settings of the studied samples. Image Credit: Monash University The study, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, investigated historic uranium and rare earth element mine waste in a cluster of historical, abandoned mine shafts located in the rugged Mount Painter area of the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Left largely undisturbed for more than 80 years and now part…

ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a leading provider of enterprise IT management and security solutions, has announced post-deployment automation for transport layer security (TLS) certificates in Key Manager Plus, its certificate lifecycle and machine identity management solution. Key Manager Plus now automates the final stages of certificate renewal, pushing certificates to the target server, running configured scripts, restarting dependent services, and notifying stakeholders, so the whole certificate lifecycle runs without manual intervention. Historically, most organisations did not have much incentive to automate certificate management. Even the ones that did adopt automation workflows limited it to discovery, periodic expiration…