Communications of the ACM
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February 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Problem with the Privacy of ChatGPT Data
Very key issue, when we converse with any chatbot, they have learned something about our needs. To predict your next question. As Chatbots gets more sophisticated, they can get more specific and valuable data. Are we ready…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring Dreams at MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group
Way back I worked on some related topics, just happened on this. A new interface? A way into the brain? Anyone know other groups doing related things?
Youtube presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0yxZ7Gp8E
DayDreamNight…From The Eponymous Pickle
Space Based Solar Power
A considerable next step for Space exploration.
Caltech Tests Space-Based Solar Power Using a satellite as testbed for wirelessly beaming power from orbit By Ned Potter in IEEE Spectrum
For about as long as engineers have talked…From The Eponymous Pickle
Solid State Vehicle Batteries
New directions in battery power for cars, I have senn nasty examples of flaming wrecks, will ehi remove that danger.
Home/News/The Holy Grail of Electric Vehicles: Solid-State Batteries/Full Text
ACM NEWS
The Holy Grail of Electric…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Are We Nuts?
Gil Kalai is one of the top researchers in the world in the area of combinatorics. His blog is one of the best in the universe. He also has some of the top results of anyone. One measure of excellence is how important not your…
From Putting People First
Voting, fast and slow
The online voting platform that was used by Italy's Five Star Movement to select the candidates for the 2013 parliamentary elections didn't take account of human decision heuristics and cognitive shortcuts, research shows.
Candidates…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Lego Computer Science: Logic with Truth Tables
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London We have seen how to represent truth tables in lego. Truth tables are a way of giving precise meaning to logical operations like AND, OR and NOT. They are also give a way to do logical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as Co-Pilot
More on Microsoft's plans to use emerging AI chat capabilities. Further updates
ACM NEWS
AI as Co-Pilot: Your Online Life Is About to Change, Like It or Not By CNet, February 8, 2023
In the half-century since Star Trek premiered…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Is a Blockchain Thingy
I had no idea—until I read this incredibly jargon-filled article:
Squid is a cross-chain liquidity and messaging router that swaps across multiple chains and their native DEXs via axlUSDC.
So there.
As usual, you can also use…From The Eponymous Pickle
Undersea Data Pacific Cable Project Halted
Global cooperation halted.
Facebook halts project for undersea data cable to Hong Kong over US-China tensions In HongKong Free Press
The Hong Kong landing station “would expose US communications traffic to collection” by Beijing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twin for Intense Weather
Interesting and clever approach, if there is enough detail in the model being used. How much is required for the purpose?
ACM TECHNEWS
Digital Twin for Intense Weather Gives Scientists 'Control Loop'
By ZDNet, February 10, 2023…From The Eponymous Pickle
Weaponizing Starlink?
At what point is something directly weaponized? In support of military activity?
SpaceX curbed Ukraine's use of Starlink internet for drones -company president By Joey Roulette in Reuters
WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - SpaceX…From The Eponymous Pickle
A 3-D Printing Factory
More scaled, efficient operations?
You Know What's Cool? A 3D-Printing Factory, By Bloomberg, February 9, 2023
Freeform Future co-founder and CEO Erik Palitsch watches one of the company’s 3D printers in operation.
The Freeform…From The Eponymous Pickle
Darpa Quantum Computing
A look at how Quantum is seen by Darpa
DARPA's Quantum Computing is Powered by ..FOMO - (Fear of Missing Out) 'Strategic Surprise'
By The Register. February 2, 2023
Under the US2QC program, DARPA will work with and provide funding…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Foot Could Enhance Neuroprosthetics
Improved digital devices and directions. Note also linking brain to prosthetics.
ACM TECHNEWS
Digital Foot Could Enhance Neuroprosthetics
By The Engineer, February 1, 2023
The 'digital foot' could serve as the basis for developing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan Geopolitics, Satellites
Rand looks at their changing defence structure, Implications in the region.
Japan's Long-Awaited Return to Geopolitics
COMMENTARY (Foreign Policy)
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida receives salutes from Japan Maritime Self…From The Eponymous Pickle
Piloting Drones Reliably
Increasing useful control.
Piloting Drone Reliably with Mobile Communications
Research News / February 01, 2023
Drones are operating increasingly in areas out of sight of the person controlling them. However, conventional remote…From insideHPC
Deutsche Börse Partners with Google Cloud
Deutsche Börse and Google Cloud have today announced a strategic partnership designed to enhance, economize and concentrate Deutsche Börse’s cloud adoption. Specifically, Deutsche Börse said it will leverage Google Cloud’s security…
From insideHPC
TSMC January 2023 Revenue Up 16.2% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Feb. 10, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for January 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for January 2023 was approximately NT$200.05 billion, an increase of 3.9…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking the Tax Code
The tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input—financial information for the year—and produces an output: the amount of tax owed. It’s incredibly…
From insideHPC
SEEQC and BASF to Explore Quantum Computing in Chemical Reactions for Industrial Use
ELMSFORD, N.Y., Feb. 9, 2023 — SEEQC, the digital quantum computing company, and chemical company BASF today announced a partnership to explore the application of quantum computing in chemical reactions. This research will explore…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former Council Member Melanie Mitchell on Detecting AI Generated Text
AI generative models have recently taken the world by storm creating digital art, music and prose. Among these innovations is a new language model called ChatGPT on openai.com. Using this tool users can ask ChatGPT anything ranging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value and Emergence of Space Robotics
Lots to learn here, using robotics in constrained and specific contexts.
ACM NEWS
Space Robots Prepare to Grapple and Repair Satellites in Orbit
February 9, 2023
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory robotics engineer John Kinch prepares…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Premature Obituary of Programming
Much yet to do here, but I would expect this would ultimately take over many such capabilities. Especially when integrated with automated testing for threat weaknesses, which could be updated to changing contexts.
The Premature…From insideHPC
HPCNow! Announces HPC Cluster Monitoring Offering
Barcelona, February 8th 2023 – HPCNow! has announced a real-time HPC cluster monitoring capability. The monitoring stack includes open-source solutions such as Grafana, Elasticsearch and Prometheus, for visualization and data…
From Computational Complexity
Why Can't Little Chatty Do Math?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watermarks for Chatbots
ACM NEWS
A Watermark for Chatbots can Expose Text Written by an AI, By MIT Technology Review
February 6, 2023
“Right now, it’s the Wild West,” says John Kirchenbauer, a researcher at the University of Maryland, who was involvedHidden…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Success Issues
Many underlying issues to consider as intelligence applications are built.
AI success is being limited by poor digital transformation
Balakrishna DR, Infosys, Podcast , January 31, 2023 11:07 AM
Digital transformation concept…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sharing Health Data without consumer Consent
Sharing Health Data without consumer Consent
ACM NEWS
FTC Accuses GoodRx of Sharing User Data Without Consent
By CNet, February 2, 2023
GoodRX users may have given up more than they thought
GoodRx will pay $1.5 million and be barred…From The Eponymous Pickle
Turn 2D Images into Immersive 3D Scenes with NVIDIA Instant NeRF in VR
Preparing content for 3-D VR and more.
Turn 2D Images into Immersive 3D Scenes with NVIDIA Instant NeRF in VR By Thomas Müller
Tags: Image Processing, NeRF, News, NVIDIA Research
Thousands of developers and content creatorsNamed…