Communications of the ACM
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August 2021
From Schneier on Security
Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
Citizen Lab is reporting on two zero-click iMessage exploits, in spyware sold by the cyberweapons arms manufacturer NSO Group to the Bahraini government.
These are particularly scary exploits, since they don’t require to victim…From Schneier on Security
Hacker-Themed Board Game
Black Hat is a hacker-themed board game.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ericsson 5G Radios for Urban Locations
Spreading 5G Radio in Urban Deployments
New Ericsson street solutions equip busy urban locations with low-visibility, high-performance 5G radios
PLANO, Texas, Aug. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) is expanding“Urban…From Computational Complexity
Since we will soon be back in the classroom, how was Zoom? Anything you want to maintain?
UMCP will have all classes on campus this Fall. There is a Mask Mandate. All students and faculty have to get vaccinated unless they have a health or religious exception. 92% are vaccinated, which I interpret as people are NOT…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wheat Harvesting Ag Tech
Impressive effort for autonomous driving and harvesting Agriculture tech
In IEEE Spectrum
AN ARMY OF GRAIN-HARVESTING ROBOTS MARCHES ACROSS RUSSIA
Aftermarket AIs drive combines
By OLGA USKOVA 25 AUG 2021 via IEEE Spectrum
Russia…From BLOG@CACM
Protecting Enterprise Use of IoT
How to strengthen the security of the Internet of Things in organizations.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Helmet Assesses Strokes
Analysis that leads to treatment.
When someone experiences a stroke, every passing moment leading up to…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cebrowski Institute for Military Innovation
Brought to my attention, linked to my early DOD work.
The Cebrowski Institute for Military Innovation
What we are seeing, in moving from the industrial age to the information age, is what amounts to a new theory of war. We have…From The Eponymous Pickle
Glove Senses and Maps Tactile Stimuli
Connecting more intelligently to the sense of touch.
Touchy-Feely Glove Senses, Maps Tactile Stimuli
By MIT News, August 9, 2021
A team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and China's Southern University of…From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Premium Smart Display
We examined and tested the first Baidu smart assistants.
Baidu Aims at Premium Market With New X10 Smart Display
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on November 5, 2020 at 8:00 am
Baidu has launched its most expensive smart display ever in a bid…From insideHPC
Chenbro Unveils 1U & 2U HPC Servers for Enterprise and Cloud
Taipei, Taiwan, August 31, 2021 — Chenbro (TWSE: 8210), designer and manufacturer of own-brand rackmount systems, today announced the availability of its latest 1U & 2U rackmount barebones servers, based on the Intel Xeon Scalable…
From insideHPC
Registration Open for ALCF Simulation, Data and Learning Workshop Oct. 5-7
Registration is now open for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Simulation, Data, and Learning Workshop, October 5-7, 2021. The event is designed to improve the performance of simulation, data science and machine learning…
From Putting People First
Public Deliberation on Policies has Many Advantages
Research shows public deliberation can change participants’ opinions when it comes to public policy. Citizens who participate in mini-publics often listen to the arguments of others and form different views. They also often produce…
From Schneier on Security
More Military Cryptanalytics, Part III
Late last year, the NSA declassified and released a redacted version of Lambros D. Callimahos’s Military Cryptanalytics, Part III. We just got most of the index. It’s hard to believe that there are any real secrets left in this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Speed Nanometer Scale Solution of Math Operations.
Note specifics of solving light based specific differential calculus analog math, At nanometer scale? Possible use for chip scale IOT applications? Technical.
Researchers' Nano-Optical Analog Processor Performs Mathematical…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Proposals: Climate Change AI Innovation Grants
The Climate Change AI (CCAI) organization, which is composed of volunteers from academia and industry who believe that tackling climate change requires concerted societal action in machine learning, has announced a new Call for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solar Storms and Undersea Cables
Brought this up recently, a long time area of interest. Note the particular mention that undersea cables would be at particular risk.
Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an 'Internet Apocalypse'
Wired, Lily Hay Newman, August 29, 2021…From BLOG@CACM
The Solar System from the Computational Thinking Perspective
We describe our choice of the solar system as one of the main illustrative examples used in our MOOC on computational thinking.
From insideHPC
Argonne Picks AMD EPYC CPUs for Polaris
Santa Clara — Aug. 30, 2021 — AMD today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has chosen AMD EPYC processors to power the Polaris supercomputer (see earlier coverage), which will prepare…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution
A decade yet, but also will happen as we need combinatorial solutions.
Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution.
Expert: Now is the time to prepare for the quantum computing revolution
by Karen Roby in Innovation on August…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bending Light for a Cheaper Internet
Who Can Bend Light for a Cheaper Internet?
By MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in CACM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a system that can maintain network connections…From The Eponymous Pickle
What have Language Models Learned?
Interesting
What Have Language Models Learned?
Large language models are making it possible for computers to write stories, program a website and turn captions into images.
One of the first of these models, BERT, is trained by…From The Eponymous Pickle
China to get out of Crypto Mining
A rumor, or not? Or in what sense?
China is getting out of crypto mining. Is North America ready to embrace it?
Aug 12, 2021 at 21:07 in Coindesk
Beijing has been playing around with the notion of cryptocurrencies and blockchain…From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Deliveries Build
Following this closely for for delivery, inspection, maintenance.
Wing Approaches 100,000 Drone Deliveries 2 Years After Launch By TechCrunch
Two years after its pilot launched in Logan, Australia, Alphabet's drone delivery company…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Book and Podcast: On Serious Gamification
Book and podcast on the subject:
Gamification Is Changing How We Work — and Succeed
‘For the Win’ authors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter discuss the revised and updated edition of their book and how gamification has changed the way…From The Eponymous Pickle
Spies for Hire
More Evidence of Global Hacking
Spies for Hire: China's New Breed of Hackers, By The New York Times, August 27, 2021
A web of front companies controlled by China's secretive state security ministry have hacked computers from the…From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA Launches AI Enterprise
Some interesting details of INVIDIA AI Enterprise offer. Here are some of the outline, with links to the details.
[1] Nvidia launches AI Enterprise in general availability
[2] How AI will reshape software development
[3]…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wagyu Beef 3-D Printed
Impressive, beef printed from stem cells.
Scientists Reveal World's First 3D-Printed Wagyu Beef
Interesting Engineering, Derya Ozdemir, August 25, 2021
Scientists at Japan's Osaka University have unveiled what they are calling the…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA-Industry Virtual Roundtable on Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research
The CRA-Industry Committee invites you to attend the Virtual Roundtable on Best Practices on using the Cloud for Computing Research on September 15, 2021, from 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time. A major focus in computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deepfakes are Making Business Pitches
Been recently involved with a business pitch, so fascinating. How far could this get you in creating the outline of a pitch.
Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches By Wired August 27, 2021
New workplace technologies often…