Communications of the ACM
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July 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
New about Apple and Generative AI
Following this closely, How will it integrate with other search.
What is Apple GPT? Apple’s ChatGPT Rival & “Ajax” Explained In Tech.co News
Apple is preparing to make a major AI announcement in 2024, and this could be the first…From Computational Complexity
"Never give AI the Nuclear Codes" Really? Have you seen Dr. Strangelove?
(I covered a simlar topic here.)
In the June 2023 issue of The Atlantic is an article titled:
Never Give AI Intelligence the Nuclear Codes
by Ross Andersen…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Nested Inventory for Software Security, Supply Chain Risk Management
A Nested Inventory for Software Security, Supply Chain Risk Management
By Esther Shein, July 20, 2023
An SBOM is meant to provide visibility into risks and vulnerabilities.
The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is comprised of…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Pit-stop heart surgery
The Formula 1 car screams to a stop in the pit-lane. Seven seconds later, it has roared away again, back into the race. In those few seconds it has been refuelled and all four wheels changed. Formula 1 pit-stops are the ultimate…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
TTIC Makes a Hire
Avrim Blum just announced that Shiry Ginosar has accepted his offer and will be joining TTIC as a tenure-track Assistant Professor starting this Fall 2024. Avrim is the chief academic officer for TTIC. Shiry works in computer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Turing Test?
THE DOWNLOAD
The Download: a new Turing test, and working with ChatGPT
By Rhiannon Williams archive page
July 14, 2023
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going onMy…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Chromatophores
Neat:
Chromatophores are tiny color-changing cells in cephalopods. Watch them blink back and forth from purple to white on this squid’s skin in an Instagram video taken by Drew Chicone…
It’s completely hypnotic to watch these…From insideHPC
Cerebras and UAE-based G42 Announce Condor Galaxy AI Supercomputer, Offered as Cloud Service
July 20, 2023 — AI technology company Cerebras Systems with partner with G42, a UAE-based technology holding group, have announced Condor Galaxy, a cloud-based network of nine interconnected supercomputers. The first AI supercomputer…
From insideHPC
CIQ Launches New Rocky Linux Support Partner Program
RENO, Nev.—July 20, 2023— CIQ, which builds software infrastructure for enterprises running workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux distribution, announced today the launch of its CIQ Partner Program. The company said…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solar Energy Turns a New Leaf
Natural fuels.
By Samuel Greengard, July 18, 2023
A solar leaf product made from microalgae, phytoplankton, and other microscopic plants.
Today, "There are several types of artificial leaves that use…From Schneier on Security
AI and Microdirectives
Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws.
All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to comply with the law, sent directly by your government and law enforcement…From The Eponymous Pickle
An Asteroid loaded with $10 quintillion worth of Metals edges closer to US reach
Previously mentioned, here a report excerpt.
An Asteroid loaded with $10 quintillion worth of Metals edges closer to US reach
Filip De Mott Jul 20, 2023, 4:31 PM EDT in BusinessInsider
NASA cleared key hurdles that allow itThe…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast decoding of base32 strings
We often need to encode binary data into ASCII strings. The standards (e.g., email) to do so include base16, base32 and base64. There are some research papers on fast base64 encoding and decoding: Base64 encoding and decoding…
From Schneier on Security
Kevin Mitnick Died
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Two Other Tests of Time
Mihalis Yannakakis 70-Fest and the 2023 Gödel Prize 2020 AAAS election—congrats on that too Mihalis Yannakakis is being honored with a 70th-birthday festival next month at Columbia University in Manhattan. It is organized by…
From The Noisy Channel
Surprise! Surprise?
We have reached the stage of generative AI where artists, authors, and performers are convinced that AI is stealing their lives — and, perhaps more importantly, their livelihoods. This dystopian theme is showing up in lawsuits…
From insideHPC
Lenovo is a Supply Chain Powerhouse with Asset Recovery Services being a Key Cornerstone
[Sponsored Guest Article] The lifecycle of IT gear, HPC or otherwise, is generally thought to start the day it is powered up to the day it is powered down for the last time and pulled out of the rack. However, in the immortal…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Talks Costs of AI and Integration with Office in CoPilot
Based on experience the integration is very important ...
CNBC.COM July 18, 2023
By Todd Haselton @ROBOTODD
• Microsoft shares rallied to an all-time high after the company announced pricing for its new AI subscription service…From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Urban Planning with VR
Modeling your complex realities
Improving Urban Planning with VR
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)
Meike Drießen, July 14, 2023
Researchers at Germany's Ruhr-Universität Bochum demonstrated measurable physical reactions to potential…From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey and Cohere Collaborate to Transform Clients with Enterprise Generative AI
At the McKinsey Blog
McKinsey and Cohere collaborate to transform clients with enterprise generative AI
AI & Analytics
July 18, 2023Today, McKinsey announced a strategic collaboration with Cohere, the leading developer of enterprise…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Breaking Down Barriers to Open Source Contributions
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt a touch of nervousness when it comes to contributing to an open-source project. Many of us have been there. Even though the community is incredibly friendly and encouraging, taking those first…
From insideHPC
Quantum: Atom Computing and NREL Explore Electric Grid Optimization
BOULDER, CO, July 20, 2023 – Atom Computing and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today announced are exploring how quantum computing can help optimize electric grid operations. During…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Vision That Works More Like a Brain Sees More Like People Do
Towards better vision.
ACM TECHNEWS
Computer Vision That Works More Like a Brain Sees More Like People Do
By MIT News, July 13, 2023
When deep Learning computer vision systems establish efficient ways to solve visual problems, they…From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Working on Generative AI
Reported in Bloomberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irS_zBKHbgU
Apple is quietly working on artificial intelligence tools that could challenge those of OpenAI, Alphabet's Google and others. Mark Gurman reports in "Bloomberg Markets…From Schneier on Security
Commentary on the Implementation Plan for the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy
The Atlantic Council released a detailed commentary on the White House’s new “Implementation Plan for the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy.” Lots of interesting bits.
So far, at least three trends emerge:
First, the plan…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Accepting Nominations for the 2023 Alan T. Waterman Award
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is now accepting nominations for the 2023 Alan T. Waterman Award. NSF’s highest honor for early-career researchers, the annual award recognizes exceptional individual achievement in any field…
From insideHPC
DUG Secures A$5M in Western Australia Government Funding for Geraldton HPC Campus
July 18, 2023 — DUG Technology Ltd (ASX: DUG) announced an agreement with the Western Australian state government under the Investment Attraction Fund and will receive A$5 million in grant funding for the first data hall of its…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins Give Hydrogen a Greener Path to Growth
Interesting idea.
Digital Twins Give Hydrogen a Greener Path to Growth
IEEE Spectrum
Tammy Xu, July 14, 2023
Sharaf Alsharif at Germany's Oldenburger OFFIS Institute for Information Technology thinks digital twins could help lower…From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter loses nearly half advertising revenue since Elon Musk takeover
Surprise?
Twitter loses nearly half advertising revenue since Elon Musk takeover By Jemma Dempsey BBC News
Twitter has lost almost half of its advertising revenue since it was bought by Elon Musk for $44bn (£33.6bn) last October…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google AI Asssisted Note Taking gets Limited Launch
Google AI Asssisted Note Taking gets Limited Launch in Tech Crunch
Google is making its “AI notebook for everyone” available to a select few and renaming it from Project Tailwind to NotebookLM. If you struggle to make sense of…