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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From insideHPC
Eni Officially Unveils €100M HPC6 Supercomputer for Exploration and Decarbonization
Italian energy company Eni has officially announced one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers that will be used to to scale up its oil and gas discovery technology...
From insideHPC
Rigetti Launches 84-Qubit Ankaa-3 Quantum System
BERKELEY, Calif.,– Quantum-classical computing company Rigetti announced the launch of its flagship 84-qubit Ankaa-3 system featuring a hardware redesign. Rigetti...
From Schneier on Security
Google Is Allowing Device Fingerprinting
Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google’s policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How does your URL parser handle Unicode?
Most strings today in software are Unicode strings. It means that you can include mathematical symbols, emojis and so forth. There are many different versions of...
From Computational Complexity
My Drunken Theorem
Bill's SIGACT Open Problems Column remembering Luca Trevisan is out. I chose the problem of whether Promise-ZPP in P implies Promise-BPP in P, an extension of an...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
My first Signs
Alexander Graham Bell was inspired by the deafness of his mother to develop new technologies to help. Lila Harrar, then a computer science student at Queen Mary...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
H1B AI and the Future of Computer Science education
H1B visas are back in the news these days. One one hand we have some loud calls for more H1B visas with a claim that US native workers are not up to snuff. Or at...
From Schneier on Security
Gift Card Fraud
It’s becoming an organized crime tactic: Card draining is when criminals remove gift cards from a store display, open them in a separate location, and either record...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Efficient In-Place UTF-16 Unicode Correction with ARM NEON
Modern-day text in software can be expected to be Unicode. Unicode is stored in two formats: UTF-8 and UTF-16. UTF-16 is an encoding system used by several platforms...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Join the crowd with swarm intelligence
Next time you are in a large crowd, look around you: all those people moving together, and mostly not bumping into each other. How does it happen? Flocks of birds...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Three Keys To Being A Great Teacher
For the last 20 years or so I have been able to meet some truly great teachers. Some I visited in their schools. Some I met at conferences. Some I have become good...
From Schneier on Security
Casino Players Using Hidden Cameras for Cheating
The basic strategy is to place a device with a hidden camera in a position to capture normally hidden card values, which are interpreted by an accomplice off-site...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Nemisindo: breaking the sound barrier
Games are becoming ever more realistic. Now, thanks to the work of Joshua Reiss’s research team and their spinout company, Nemisindo, it’s not just the graphics...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid on Pizza
Pizza Hut in Taiwan has a history of weird pizzas, including a “2022 scalloped pizza with Oreos around the edge, and deep-fried chicken and calamari studded throughout...
From Schneier on Security
Scams Based on Fake Google Emails
Scammers are hacking Google Forms to send email to victims that come from google.com. Brian Krebs reports on the effects. Boing Boing post.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The logic piano
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Victorian, William Stanley Jevons was born in Liverpool in 1835. He was famous in his day as an economist and his...
From Schneier on Security
Spyware Maker NSO Group Found Liable for Hacking WhatsApp
A judge has found that NSO Group, maker of the Pegasus spyware, has violated the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by hacking WhatsApp in order to spy on people using...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Mike Lynch: serial success
By Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Mike Lynch was one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs. An electrical engineer, he built his businesses around...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Superhero Syllogisms
by Paul Curzon Queen Mary University of London, first appeared in A BIT of CS4FN 2 Superheroes don’t just have physical powers. Often they come out on top because...
From Schneier on Security