Caught before it could do widespread damage, the sophisticated vulnerability could have been one of the highest-impact software supply chain breaches to date. A data compression library called XZ ...

Abstract: With advancements in technology and the Data Boom due to the Internet of things (IoT), the world now generates considerable amounts of data. Take the example of self-driving cars themselves; ...

This article addresses the question of whether machine understanding requires consciousness. Some researchers in the field of machine understanding have argued that it is not necessary for computers ...

Why does evolution favor symmetric structures when they only represent a minute subset of all possible forms? Just as monkeys randomly typing into a computer language will preferentially produce ...

BriefLZ is a small and fast open source implementation of a Lempel-Ziv style compression algorithm. The main focus is on speed and code footprint, but the ratios achieved are quite good compared to ...