In 2017, the USA welcomed 4292 published research scientists on net; China welcomed 116; & non-US OECD nations lost 2927. By 2021, the USA saw 4 scientists leave (again, on net); the non-US OECD welcomed 1792; and China welcomed 2408. This is a self-inflicted disaster.

Random idea: Maybe we should let international students stay here after they graduate from American universities with advanced STEM degrees.

1) The fact that there are routinely people suffering from psychosis and/or homelessness screaming on mass transit represents a failure of public policy, the principal (tho not sole) victims of which are the people suffering from psychosis and homelessness.

Excited to announce I’ll be a part of next year’s KnightHennessy cohort while I study at Stanford Law School :) I plan to continue my PhD research with University of Michigan and J. Alex Halderman while I’m there, and to use both skill sets to pursue common-good tech policy! knight-hennessy.stanford.edu/people/braden-…

This Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling provides a kind of master class in applying copyright’s fair use doctrine to functional works like computer programs. eff.org/deeplinks/2023…

U-M’s Braden Crimmins and Karthik Ravi have been named to the 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, which is designed to prepare a new generation of global leaders to effect positive change in the world. myumi.ch/EPZD5

Today, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia unsealed a 96-page report that I wrote w/ Prof. Drew Springall from Auburn University. It describes serious vulnerabilities we found in Georgia's Dominion ImageCast X ballot marking devices. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

When we run out of good training data in reality, simulation is the next gold mine. Enters Infinigen: an open-source, procedurally generated, photorealistic dataset for 3D vision. The quality is stunning! No two worlds are the same. ▸ Every little detail is randomized and

Commander, U.S Cyber Command; Director of NSA/CSS Mark Warner Senator Marco Rubio: Archived Tom Cotton "If you're confirmed will you commit, the NSA will not seek to insert backdoors into or otherwise weaken encryption technology used by Americans?" Ron Wyden asks. "If confirmed I will not weaken encryption for Americans," Haugh says. "That's an important statement," Ron Wyden

I said before traveling to the pillow-symposium, that the claimed PCAP files cannot exist. In symposium no PCAP files were given to us experts. Now media is reporting text messages filed as evidence in a lawsuit which indicate that Lindell knew that he had no PCAP files.

And a reminder that one, contested green card in the 1990s meant Katalin Kariko stayed in the US and so we had mRNA tech ready just in time for the pandemic.

Project Lyra explores the possibility of sending a spacecraft to chase 'Oumuamua using an Earth gravity assist to reach Jupiter, which robs the craft of almost all its speed, causing it to drop to the Sun for an Oberth maneuver. Thanks Adam Hibberd for the trajectory data!

sincere posting mode: every member of the jury just non-trivially increased their odds of being on the wrong end of political violence, all of them that weren't total morons know it, and they did this anyway. genuine moment of unironic courage.

🏆 Congratulations to Professor J. Alex Halderman and his team on winning a Distinguished Paper Award at #USENIXSecurity2024 this morning! 🎉 J. Alex Halderman

This appears to be untrue. The provision requires election officials to count the *number* of ballots and ensure it matches the number of ballots the machine scanned. Election officials do not need to count voters’ actual choices by hand.

“If responsible people fail to talk about the real flaws in our election system, we cede that ground to conspiracy theorists who are far less concerned about being constructive or accurate.” stanforddaily.com/2024/11/04/ele…