Communications of the ACM
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January 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Polymorphic Wireless Receivers
Idea completely new to me.
Home/Magazine Archive/September 2022 (Vol. 65, No. 9)/Polymorphic Wireless Receivers/Abstract
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Polymorphic Radio Receivers By Francesco Restuccia, Tommaso Melodia
Communications of…From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Robotics and Open Source Robotics Foundation
Open Robotics Acquired
Alphabet’s Intrinsic Acquires Majority of Open Robotics ROS and Gazebo will stay with an independent Open Source Robotics Foundation By Evan Ackerman
Today, Open Robotics, which is the organization that…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How to Buy Fresh or Frozen Squid
Good advice on buying squid. I like to buy whole fresh squid and clean it myself.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI in Strategy Podcast
Thoughtful piece here, full podcast below
Artificial intelligence in strategy
McKinsey, January 11, 2023 | Podcast, By , Yuval Atsmon
AI tools can help executives avoid biases in decisions, pull insights out of oceans of data,Can…From The Eponymous Pickle
GigaOM Looks at Trends in 2023
Another analysis of the near future, much more at the link.
What do GigaOm analysts see as the big trends in 2023?
By Jon Collins
This week I spoke to a number of GigaOm analysts about how they see 2023. Costs are driving, and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse for Mobility and Sales
The Metaverse: Driving vValue in the Mobility sector and Sales
Mckinsey January 4, 2023 | Article
This article is a collaborative effort by Kersten Heineke, Hamza Khan, Timo Möller, Dennis Schwedhelm, Shivam Srivastava, and Felix…From The Eponymous Pickle
Crypto's Winter and Generative A.I.'s Spring?
Colleague Steve King Writes:
Crypto's Winter and Generative A.I.'s Spring
The Washington Post's 'Crypto winter' has come. And it's looking more like an ice age starts with:
A year ago, the crypto world was booming, with prices…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Architecture Could Connect Large-Scale Devices
Architecture from MIT, superconducting quantum chips
Quantum Computing Architecture Could Connect Large-Scale Devices
MIT News, Adam Zewe, January 5, 2023
A new quantum computing architecture developed by Massachusetts Institute…From Schneier on Security
Threats of Machine-Generated Text
With the release of ChatGPT, I’ve read many random articles about this or that threat from the technology. This paper is a good survey of the field: what the threats are, how we might detect machine-generated text, directions…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Care is needed to use C++ std::optional with non-trivial objects
We often have to represent in software a value that might be missing. Different programming languages have abstraction for this purpose. A recent version of C++ (C++17) introduces std::optional templates. It is kind of neat.Continue…
From insideHPC
TSMC Reports Fourth Quarter Revenue of $19.9B, Up 27% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Jan. 12, 2023 — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced consolidated revenue of NT$625.53 billion, net income of NT$295.90 billion, and diluted earnings per share of NT$11.41 (US$1.82 per ADR unit)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT Is Enabling Script Kiddies to Write Functional Malware
Have heard this several times this week, Not quite ready yet, but could go that way ... Might as they say help. A concern.
ChatGPT Is Enabling Script Kiddies to Write Functional Malware
In Ars Technica, Dan Goodin, January…From The Eponymous Pickle
Supercomputer Simulation Transforms Coal Like Material
Unusual Direction for this kind of Sim effort, reading more at the link. A new kind of Coal. Material science uses?
Supercomputer Simulations Transform Coal-Like Material to Amorphous Graphite, Nanotubes
Ohio University, January…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF and NobleReach Emerge Partner in New Effort to Catalyze Research and Development in Biotechnology
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and NobleReach Emerge are teaming up to push forward biotechnology development and translation. Biotechnology is a growing market that has enormous potential to benefit society. This $5 million…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agri Tech at CES
Was asked to report on this and implications. Seems a broad and deep look at data use. Good idea.
Tech at CES Shows How Farmers Can Save Time, Money, Environment
France24 (France), January 8, 2023
Farmers can better protectFull…From The Eponymous Pickle
CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI
Off we go with Robot Journalism ...
CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI, By Futurism, January 12, 2023
CNET is far from the first; the Associated Press has been using AI to automatically write thousands…From insideHPC
HPE Acquires Reproducible AI Startup Pachyderm for AI-at-Scale
HOUSTON – January 12, 2023 – HPE today announced an expansion to its AI-at-scale offerings with the acquisition of Pachyderm, a startup that delivers software, based on open-source technology, to automate reproducible machine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Lawyers to Appear
More integrated expertise based assistance.
A.I.-Powered 'Robot Lawyer' Will Appear in a U.S. Court for the First Time
By The Week, January 10, 2023
Consumer-focused tech firm DoNotPay is behind the AI-powered legal assistant…From Computational Complexity
Semantic Search for the Blog
As Google started to limit academic storage, I started looking at Google Takeout and started wondering what I could do with all that data. I downloaded all the posts from the blog, since we use Google's blogger, and ran them…
From Schneier on Security
Experian Privacy Vulnerability
Brian Krebs is reporting on a vulnerability in Experian’s website:
Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally…From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenAI Opens Waitlist for Paid Version of ChatGPT
Full steam ahead? Monetizing and improving. Ready when and how? Been hearing interesting application stories. A new World, or Hype?
OpenAI opens waitlist for paid version of ChatGPT By Ryan Daws | January 11, 2023Categories…From insideHPC
Conventional Wisdom Watch: Matsuoka & Co. Take on 12 Myths of HPC
A group of HPC thinkers, including the estimable Satoshi Matsuoka of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan, have come together to challenge common lines of thought they say have become, to varying degrees, accepted…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Hedy Lamarr: The movie star, the piano player and the torpedo
by Peter W McOwan, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) Hedy Lamarr was a movie star. Back in the 1940’s, in Hollywood’s Golden Age, she was considered one of the screen’s most beautiful women and appeared in several…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT Overhyped? Opinion
Noticed the hype, is it? Andrew White writes below,
Artificial IntelligenceChatGPTGPT-3
By Andrew White | January 05, 2023
I lean toward the hype being overblown.
Pundits are all agog with ChatGPT, language generation toolIn…From insideHPC
General Dynamics Awarded $152M Operations Contract by Alabama Supercomputer Authority
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – General Dynamics Information Technology has announced it was awarded a $152 million contract for the provisioning, management and operation of computer and network systems by the Alabama Supercomputer Authority…
From insideHPC
Verne Global Announces New COO, CFO, GC
11th January 2023 – Verne Global, provider of sustainable data centre solutions for high intensity computing, has today announced the expansion of its senior leadership team with three key appointments: Mike Allen as Chief Operating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unlocking the Industrial Potential of Robotics and Automation
From McKinsey Global Robotics Survey.
Unlocking the industrial potential of robotics and automation
January 6, 2023 | Article in McKinsey
Results from the 2022 McKinsey Global Industrial Robotics Survey reveal that industrial…From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Speech Simulation
Security is slipping everywhere ...
Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio
Text-to-speech model can preserve speaker's emotional tone and acoustic environment.
In Ars Technica, BENJ EDWARDS - 1/9…From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Considers the Implications of the Digital Pound
Implications need to be very closely examined. Is 'long way down the road' they say
Cryptocurrency: UK Treasury considers plan for digital pound By Shiona McCallum, Technology reporter in the BBC.
The government is considering…From The Eponymous Pickle
Acquabots
Robots to be nearly everywhere.
ACM TECHNEWS
Researchers Pioneer Biocompatible All-Water 'Aquabots'
By Asia Research News, December 22, 2022
Micrometer-scale multicompartmental structures of aquabots., The multicompartmental building…