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IoMT Vulnerabilities Putting Patient Health Data at Risk

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Zero Day To Zero Minute Your Healthcare System I.o.T. for Personal Data Transfer Device Hacking Understanding IoT Medical Device Risks and Protecting Patient Data is Critical: Patient health data is being transmitted wirelessly across your network thousands of times daily—and it may not be protected Healthcare is experiencing an unprecedented explosion in connected medical devices. … Read more

From Blockchains to Biotech: How Miners Could Help Discover New Medicines

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Volunteer Computing PNPCoin 3.1 Blockchain Integration and 3.2 Bounded Complexity 3.3 Runtime Authority and 3.4 Back-compatibility Use case – Cellular Docking Conclusion and References 4 Use case – Cellular Docking Next, they define a binary output of size m, in this case m=2, with outcomes 01, 00 and … Read more

Integrating Useful Computation into Blockchain: PNPCoin’s Runtime and Compatibility Framework

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Volunteer Computing PNPCoin 3.1 Blockchain Integration and 3.2 Bounded Complexity 3.3 Runtime Authority and 3.4 Back-compatibility Use case – Cellular Docking Conclusion and References 3.1 Blockchain Integration The PNPCoin proposal aims to replace the SHA256 hashing function at the core of Blockchain technology with useful computations. Instead of … Read more

How PNPCoin Could Make Bitcoin Compute Something Useful

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Volunteer Computing PNPCoin 3.1 Blockchain Integration and 3.2 Bounded Complexity 3.3 Runtime Authority and 3.4 Back-compatibility Use case – Cellular Docking Conclusion and References 2 Volunteer Computing Citizen science of the digital era gave rise to volunteer computing, the sharing of computational resources for research. The earliest projects, … Read more

The Training Technique That Teaches AI to Think, Not Memorize

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Syllogisms composition 1.2 Hardness of long compositions 1.3 Hardness of global reasoning 1.4 Our contributions Results on the local reasoning barrier 2.1 Defining locality and auto-regressive locality 2.2 Transformers require low locality: formal results 2.3 Agnostic scratchpads cannot break the locality Scratchpads to break the locality 3.1 … Read more

How Inductive Scratchpads Help Transformers Learn Beyond Their Training Data

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Syllogisms composition 1.2 Hardness of long compositions 1.3 Hardness of global reasoning 1.4 Our contributions Results on the local reasoning barrier 2.1 Defining locality and auto-regressive locality 2.2 Transformers require low locality: formal results 2.3 Agnostic scratchpads cannot break the locality Scratchpads to break the locality 3.1 … Read more

Understanding the Local Reasoning Barrier in Transformer Models

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Syllogisms composition 1.2 Hardness of long compositions 1.3 Hardness of global reasoning 1.4 Our contributions Results on the local reasoning barrier 2.1 Defining locality and auto-regressive locality 2.2 Transformers require low locality: formal results 2.3 Agnostic scratchpads cannot break the locality Scratchpads to break the locality 3.1 … Read more

Why Transformers Struggle with Global Reasoning

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Syllogisms composition 1.2 Hardness of long compositions 1.3 Hardness of global reasoning 1.4 Our contributions Results on the local reasoning barrier 2.1 Defining locality and auto-regressive locality 2.2 Transformers require low locality: formal results 2.3 Agnostic scratchpads cannot break the locality Scratchpads to break the locality 3.1 … Read more

Can Transformers Learn Logical Reasoning from Scratch?

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:::info Authors: (1) Emmanuel Abbe, Apple and EPFL; (2) Samy Bengio, Apple; (3) Aryo Lotf, EPFL; (4) Colin Sandon, EPFL; (5) Omid Saremi, Apple. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Syllogisms composition 1.2 Hardness of long compositions 1.3 Hardness of global reasoning 1.4 Our contributions Results on the local reasoning barrier 2.1 … Read more

A Soft‑Fork Proposal for Blockchain‑Based Distributed AI Computation

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:::info Author: (1) Martin Kolar, Brno University of Technology (kolarmartin@fit.vutbr.cz). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Volunteer Computing PNPCoin 3.1 Blockchain Integration and 3.2 Bounded Complexity 3.3 Runtime Authority and 3.4 Back-compatibility Use case – Cellular Docking Conclusion and References Abstract Research and applications in Machine Learning are limited by computational resources, while … Read more

How Telepathic Music Inspires Disabled Creatives

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In the video that explores the height of his rock stardom, 19-year-old Jason Becker notices something strange—his left leg keeps dragging during guitar practice. One day, after struggling to walk, he locks himself in the bathroom. Panic surges through him as he realizes his hands have lost strength. Doctors later confirm he has ALS, the … Read more

The TechBeat: The Illusion of Scale: Why LLMs Are Vulnerable to Data Poisoning, Regardless of Size (11/3/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## The Silent Revolution: AI-Driven Network Decisions in Real-Time By @darshanbmehta [ 5 Min read ] The telecommunications industry is experiencing an … Read more

If a Data Broker Goes Bankrupt, What Happens to Your Sensitive Data?

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The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that delivers our stories and tools directly to your inbox. In 2021, a company specializing in collecting and selling location data called Near bragged that it … Read more