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eSafety and foreign regulators to sync content bans and oversight schemes

Australia, UK, France, Korea and others states release joint plans.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/T7QyKg

Home Affairs’ ICT modernisation needs backed by another review

Finds “over 40 percent” of business systems have reached end-of-life.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/T7QvhL

YARA 4.5.1 Release, (Sun, May 26th)

YARA 4.5.0 was released with a small change to the regex syntax (allowing more whitespace) and many bugfixes.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/T7QFxZ

More than spins: Exploring uncharted territory in quantum devices

Many of today’s quantum devices rely on collections of qubits, also called spins. These quantum bits have only two energy levels, the ‘0’ and the ‘1’. However, spins in real devices also interact with light and vibrations known as bosons, greatly complicating calculations. Researchers now demonstrate a way to describe spin-boson systems and use this to efficiently configure quantum devices in a desired state.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/T7PLc6

Veterans Affairs could improve how it assesses patients when they leave its hospitals

The Veterans Affairs office of inspector general has revealed a fundamental way to improve care. It has to do with assessing patients about to be discharged. The post Veterans Affairs could improve how it assesses patients when they leave its hospitals first appeared on Federal News Network.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/T7NhrM

Imperceptible sensors made from ‘electronic spider silk’ can be printed directly on human skin

Researchers have developed a method to make adaptive and eco-friendly sensors that can be directly and imperceptibly printed onto a wide range of biological surfaces, whether that’s a finger or a flower petal.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/T7NPyX

To 6G and beyond: Engineers unlock the next generation of wireless communications

Engineers have developed a new tool that could unlock 6G and the next generation of wireless networks: an adjustable filter that can successfully prevent interference in high-frequency bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/T7NPxk

csvkit, (Sat, May 25th)

After reading my diary entry “Checking CSV Files”, a reader informed me that CSV toolkit csvkit also contains a command to check CSV files: csvstat.py.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/T7NB3v

AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once

Engineers have developed an artificial intelligence system that lets someone wearing headphones look at a person speaking for three to five seconds to ‘enroll’ them. The system then plays just the enrolled speaker’s voice in real time, even as the pair move around in noisy environments.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/T7ML9Z