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Friday Squid Blog: The Market for Squid Oil Is Growing

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/08/friday-squid-blog-the-market-for-squid-oil-is-growing.html

How did I not know before now that there was a market for squid oil?

The squid oil market has experienced robust growth in recent years, expanding from $4.56 billion in 2023 to $4.94 billion in 2024 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.5%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to global market growth, alternative to fish oil, cosmetics and skincare industry, sustainability practices, regulatory influence.

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Friday Squid Blogging: SQUID Is a New Computational Tool for Analyzing Genomic AI

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/08/friday-squid-blogging-squid-is-a-new-computational-tool-for-analyzing-genomic-ai.html

Yet another SQUID acronym:

SQUID, short for Surrogate Quantitative Interpretability for Deepnets, is a computational tool created by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists. It’s designed to help interpret how AI models analyze the genome. Compared with other analysis tools, SQUID is more consistent, reduces background noise, and can lead to more accurate predictions about the effects of genetic mutations.

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Friday Squid Blogging: 1994 Lair of Squid Game

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/07/friday-squid-blogging-1994-lair-of-squid-game.html

I didn’t know:

In 1994, Hewlett-Packard released a miracle machine: the HP 200LX pocket-size PC. In the depths of the device, among the MS-DOS productivity apps built into its fixed memory, there lurked a first-person maze game called Lair of Squid.

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In Lair of Squid, you’re trapped in an underwater labyrinth, seeking a way out while avoiding squid roaming the corridors. A collision with any cephalopod results in death. To progress through each stage and ascend to the surface, you locate the exit and provide a hidden, scrambled code word. The password is initially displayed as asterisks, with letters revealed as you encounter them within the maze.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Catch Quotas in Peru

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/friday-squid-blogging-squid-catch-quotas-in-peru.html

Peru has set a lower squid quota for 2024. The article says “giant squid,” but that seems wrong. We don’t eat those.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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