Santa Clara University

Opening the Black Box: How Artificial Intelligence Increases Race-Based Disparities in Medicine

Meghan Abate '25 is a neuroscience major and an economics minor and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.
The Hacker News

Lazarus Campaign Plants Malicious Packages in npm and PyPI Ecosystems

North Korea-linked Lazarus campaign spreads malicious npm and PyPI packages via fake crypto job offers, deploying RATs and ...
IEEE

Design of a Generic Fault Diagnosis Model for Electrical Distribution Networks Using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) Algorithm

Abstract: This article presents the design and implementation of a generic model for fault diagnosis in electrical distribution networks, based on the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm. The ...
The Daily Gazette

Elon Musk says X to make algorithm open source in 7 days

Social media platform X will open its new algorithm to the public in seven days, Elon Musk said on Saturday, including the code used to decide what posts and advertisements are recommended to users.
Fast Company

AI’s butterfly effect: The danger of cascade failures

The flap of a butterfly’s wings in South America can famously lead to a tornado in the Caribbean. The so-called butterfly effect—or “sensitive dependence on initial conditions,” as it is more ...
CNBC

TikTok signs agreement to create new U.S. joint venture, memo says

TikTok's U.S. operations will be housed in a new joint venture, according to a memo sent to employees by CEO Shou Zi Chew. The entity is named TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. As part of the venture, ...
Wall Street Journal

AI Can Make Decisions Better Than People Do. So Why Don’t We Trust It?

If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill ...
TechCrunch

OK, what’s going on with LinkedIn’s algo?

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...
WLRN

From TikTok to AI Art: Algorithms are splintering pop culture, changing how we connect and create

The way people discover content, like music and art, is changing fast. AI-powered recommendation algorithms are creating fragmented social media feeds, carving pop culture into tiny, personalized ...
The Verge

Lawmakers want to let users sue over harmful social media algorithms

A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms. A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms. is a senior ...
Live Science

Quantum computing will make cryptography obsolete. But computer scientists are working to make them unhackable.

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GEN

The Next Superintelligence Will Not Just Think. It Will Bleed.

Artificial intelligence (AI) for science has rapidly gained momentum at an extreme pace. Models trained on the scientific record are generating hypotheses and even running experiments in automated ...