Communications of the ACM
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January 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Appliances Could Stop Working After Two Years Due to Lack of Software Updates
Well known, but worth a caution. Even for large companies.
Smart Appliances Could Stop Working After Two Years Due to Lack of Software Updates
By BBC News, January 17, 2023
U.K. informed consumer brand Which? warns smart appliances…From The Eponymous Pickle
GPT as a Corporate Lobbyist
Considerable, interesting piece, Now can how well can we detect this? also covered in Schneier with much further analysis and comment:
Large Language Models as Corporate Lobbyists
9 Pages Posted: 4 Jan 2023 Last revised…From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Invents 'Immortal Battery'
Quite the claim ... Something we can use!
GE Research Developing the IMMORTAL Battery and Self-Healing Metals to Expand Operational Lifetime of Critical Military Systems From Ge.com
Materials
Awarded two projects totaling $11…From Schneier on Security
AI and Political Lobbying
Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening to upend how we draft everyday communications like emails, college essays and myriad other forms of writing.
Created by the company OpenAI, ChatGPT is a chatbot that can…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Apply to Attend the Ai4 2023 Conference
Ai4 is hosting their 2023 conference August 7-9 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Ai4 is an organization that aims to establish a common framework for AI development and use going forward. The conference will bring together business…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microlaser Chip Adds Dimensions to Quantum Communication
Discovered late through an alumni connection ...
Microlaser Chip Adds Dimensions to Quantum Communication
Penn Engineering Today
Devorah Fischler, November 21, 2022
A multi-institutional team led by researchers at the University…From BLOG@CACM
Evaluating Research Results for Practical Applications
The role of the application of research results in assessing the achievements of scientists.
From insideHPC
Microsoft Announces GA of Azure OpenAI Service, ChatGPT on Way
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure OpenAI Service, the result of a partnership with OpenAI whose ChatGPT generative AI application has created a sensation since its lat November launch that generated 1
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From insideHPC
D-Wave Announces New Customer Engagements, Cross-Platform Product Enhancements at Qubits 2023
January 17, 2023 — BURNABY, British Columbia & PALO ALTO — D-Wave Quantum Inc. , a quantum computing systems, software, and services company, today announced new and renewed commercial customer engagements along with product …
From insideHPC
Dell Announces PowerEdge Servers with Intel 4th Gen Xeon Chips
Jan. 17, 2023 — Dell Technologies has announced 13 new rack, tower and multi-node PowerEdge servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors announced last week. The servers include Dell software and engineering features,
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Error Control Begins to Shape Quantum Archtectures
Considerable piece. I understood that error control was important, how this fits in is less clear. Reliability can be seen as key. Diving more deeply.
Error Control Begins to Shape Quantum Architectures By Chris Edwards
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Planning for algae as Food
World Population and how to feed it ...
Feeding the world
Without algae there would be no life on earth. Every second molecule of oxygen that we breathe comes from them. Algae could also become more important…From Schneier on Security
The FBI Identified a Tor User
No details, though:
According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May 14, 2019. In virtue of being a …From insideHPC
Atos Win UK Quantum Simulator Contract
No sooner did the news break that Atos had accepted a £24 million settlement with the UK government over a major supercomputing contract award (HPE’s weather supercomputer for the UK Met Office) than the UK announced it has purchased…
From Computational Complexity
ChatGPT tried to write an obit for Martin Davis. What it got right, wrong, and what to make of it.
When Martin Davis passed away Lance emailed me what he got from using ChatGPT to do an obit. Here it is and I also note what it got wrong.
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Born in 1928 in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Game Developers and Cancer Researchers Team Up
Even seems like a natural collaboration these days. Had been wondering how much of that is now common between game players/designers and science in general.
Cambridge University Researchers Develop VR Tool for Cancer Treatment…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Writes about Their AI Focus
Thoughtful talks about making things smart ....
Why we focus on AI (and to what end)
Jan 16, 2023, James Manyika, SVP, Technology & Society, In the Google Research Blog
Editor's Note: Today we published a piece outlining our perspective…From Schneier on Security
Hacked Cellebrite and MSAB Software Released
Cellebrite is an cyberweapons arms manufacturer that sells smartphone forensic software to governments around the world. MSAB is a Swedish company that does the same thing. Someone has released software and documentation from…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Year 2022: Scientific progress
The year 2022 is over. As with every year that passes, we have made some scientific progress. I found the following achievements interesting: Diluting the blood plasma of older human beings rejuvenate them. In a nuclear fusion…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and technology links (January 15 2022)
For under $600, one can buy a 20-terabyte disk on Amazon. Unless you work professionally in multimedia, it is more storage than you need. However, having much storage it, by itself, of little use if you cannot access it. Thankfully…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Plans to Add ChatGPT to Bing
Can ChatGPT be successfully be integrated into services like search engines? Implications? Will public uses be useful, dangerous?
Microsoft Plans to Add ChatGPT to Bing Search Engine: Report
By Eric HAL Schwartz on JanuaryMicrosoft…From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Generated Text, Threat Models,
Part of a current survey of mine. intro below, more at the link
Machine Generated Text: A Comprehensive Survey of Threat Models and Detection Methods
By EVAN CROTHERS, NATHALIE JAPKOWICZ, and HERNA VIKTOR
Advances in natural language…From The Eponymous Pickle
High Priced VR Headsets
Emerging, evolving gear comesfrom game world, will this be seen seriously in industry?
VR headset prices high as Apple bides its time
Published 14 hours ago in BBC, By Zoe Kleinman Technology editor
Last week in Las Vegas I…From The Eponymous Pickle
Knotted Quantum Money
Intriguing application here.
Quantum money that uses the mathematics of knots could be unforgeable
A monetary system built using a combination of quantum computers and the mathematics of knots could be impossible to counterfeit
…From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA Goes Virtual Assistants
To me an unexpected direction. Apparently a prototype early access effort for partners.
Develop Intelligent Virtual Assistants with NVIDIA Omniverse ACE Early Access
By Stephanie Rubenstein and Alex Qi NVIDIA
NVIDIA just…From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenAI Blooms
Worth a look, still have my doubts except for specialized applications. We did much in this area I would like to re-try with ChatGBT, Worth the experiment. Data and buy in for customer experiments now less available.
OpenAI…From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking at Capricon, a four-day science fiction convention in Chicago. My talk is on “The Coming AI Hackers” and will be held Friday, February 3 at 1:00 …From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code, born 14 January 1967
Black Girls Code aims to teach one million Black girls to code before 2040.
From The Eponymous Pickle
China's New Quantum Code-breaking Algorithm Raises Concerns in the US
More on this direction ...
China's new quantum code-breaking algorithm raises concerns in the US in InterestingEngineering
The new algorithm could render mainstream encryption powerless within years.
By Baba Tamim, Created: Jan…From The Eponymous Pickle
Floating Solar Farms
Alternative energy connections for remote grids.
Getting electricity to all of Indonesia's islands is challenging By Emma Woollacott, Technology of Business reporter…