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White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge

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At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports:

The new AI cyber challenge (which is being abbreviated “AIxCC”) will have a number of different phases. Interested would-be competitors can now submit their proposals to the Small Business Innovation Research program for evaluation and, eventually, selected teams will participate in a 2024 “qualifying event.” During that event, the top 20 teams will be invited to a semifinal competition at that year’s DEF CON, another large cybersecurity conference, where the field will be further whittled down…

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Detecting “Violations of Social Norms” in Text with AI

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Researchers are trying to use AI to detect “social norms violations.” Feels a little sketchy right now, but this is the sort of thing that AIs will get better at. (Like all of these systems, anything but a very low false positive rate makes… Continue reading Detecting “Violations of Social Norms” in Text with AI→

White House launches AI Cyber Challenge to make software more secure

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The Biden-Harris Administration has launched a major two-year competition using AI to protect the United States’ most important software, such as code that helps run the internet and critical infrastructure. The AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) will challeng… Continue reading White House launches AI Cyber Challenge to make software more secure→

DARPA taps Lockheed Martin to build nuclear deep space rocket

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The first crewed mission to Mars may get there and back a bit faster and safer if a contract DARPA has awarded to Lockheed Martin bears fruit. The contract is to rapidly advance and fabricate a nuclear thermal rocket engine scheduled to fly by 2027 for… Continue reading DARPA taps Lockheed Martin to build nuclear deep space rocket→

DARPA goes fundamental to find game-changing battlefield anesthetics

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DARPA has announced its new Anesthetics for Battlefield Care (ABC) program, which is aiming to develop a new combat anesthesia that can be applied to casualties in the field without requiring specialized medical training or complex monitoring apparatus… Continue reading DARPA goes fundamental to find game-changing battlefield anesthetics→

DARPA launches program in quest for “Red October” silent submarine drive

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Taking a plot point from the 1990 Sean Connery thriller The Hunt for Red October, DARPA is working on a super-silent submarine drive that has no moving parts and provides propulsion through the water using magnets and electricity.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading DARPA launches program in quest for “Red October” silent submarine drive→

DARPA selects competitors for its Liberty Lifter seaplane project

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DARPA has chosen two radically different designs from teams led by General Atomics and Aurora Flight Systems for development of the Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale seaborne strategic and tactical heavy lift demonstrator.Continu… Continue reading DARPA selects competitors for its Liberty Lifter seaplane project→

AIs as Computer Hackers

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Hacker “Capture the Flag” has been a mainstay at hacker gatherings since the mid-1990s. It’s like the outdoor game, but played on computer networks. Teams of hackers defend their own computers while attacking other teams’. It’s a controlled setting for what computer hackers do in real life: finding and fixing vulnerabilities in their own systems and exploiting them in others’. It’s the software vulnerability lifecycle.

These days, dozens of teams from around the world compete in weekend-long marathon events held all over the world. People train for months. Winning is a big deal. If you’re into this sort of thing, it’s pretty much the most fun you can possibly have on the Internet without committing multiple felonies…

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