Physics Division Graduate Student - Winter/Spring 2025 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
Livermore, CA, United States
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Tech Didn't Spot Russian Interference During the Last Election. Now It's Asking Law Enforcement for Help.
Silicon Valley companies and law enforcement are starting to talk about how to ward off meddling by malicious actors including Russia on social media in the November...
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Adobe Is Using AI to Catch Photoshopped Images
While picture editors have tweaked images for decades, modern tools like Adobe Photoshop let them alter photos to the point of complete fabrication.
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Furor on Claim Women's Choices Create Gender Gap in Comp Sci
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Why a 40-Year-Old SCOTS Ruling Against Software Patents Still Matters Today
Forty years ago this week, in the case of Parker v. Flook, the US Supreme Court came close to banning software patents.
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Bias Detectives: The Researchers Striving to Make Algorithms Fair
In 2015, a worried father asked Rhema Vaithianathan a question that still weighs on her mind.
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Listening to James Hansen on Climate Change, Thirty Years Ago and Now
On June 23, 1988—a blisteringly hot day in Washington, D.C.—James Hansen told a Senate committee that "the greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our...
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Relax, Google, the Robot Army Isn't Here Yet
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Stanford Students Boycott Google Jobs Over Firm's Military Work
Google has for years been a top destination for graduates of Stanford University, but now a student-led campaign is boycott interviewing at Google unless the Mountain...
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If You're A Facebook ser, You're Also a Research Subject
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Car Insurers Warn on 'Autonomous' Vehicles
The motor insurance industry is warning carmakers against the use of the word "autonomous" in their marketing.
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Two Critical .S. Dams at High Risk From Insider Cyber Threats
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, a part of the Interior Department, operates more than 600 of the some 100,000 dams in the United States, five of which are considered...
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Asteroids and Adversaries: Challenging What NASA Knows About Space Rocks
Thousands of asteroids are passing through Earth's neighborhood all the time.
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ZTE's Near-Collapse May Be China's Sputnik Moment
Once derided as a technology backwater and copycat, China is justifiably proud of its technology boom.
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Systemic Changes Needed to Address Sexual Harassment in Academia, Report Says
A system-wide change to the culture and climate in higher education is needed to prevent and effectively respond to sexual harassment, says a new report from the...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Booming, but Can the FDA Keep Up?
The use of artificial intelligence in medicine is evolving so quickly that experts fear the FDA, which is still trying to develop a process for regulating AI, won't...
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