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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 Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Adds Spam Filter Testing to Evaluation of Internationalized Email Support Among Global Systems
By the Email Address Internationalization (EAI) Working Group The UASG’s most recent evaluation (UASG030A), conducted by Standcore LLC, has expanded testing ofUASG...
From My Biased Coin
Queues with Small Advice
I have had papers rejected, with comments of the form that the results seem too easy, and are at the level of a homework assignment. Generally, I think these reviewers...
From Schneier on Security
Cobolt Strike Vulnerability Affects Botnet Servers
Cobolt Strike is a security tool, used by penetration testers to simulate network attackers. But it’s also used by attackers — from criminals to governments — to...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMesssage and iCloud Storage
Apple’s announcement that it’s going to start scanning photos for child abuse material is a big deal. I have been following the details, and discussing it in several...
From insideHPC
DOE to Fund $37M to Small Businesses for Climate, Energy and Scientific R&D
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a plan to provide $37 million for small businesses pursuing climate and energy research and development (R&D)...
From insideHPC
NCSA’s Katz Named Steering Committee Chair of Research Software Alliance
ReSA, the Research Software Alliance has named as its inaugural Steering Committee chair Daniel S. Katz, chief scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deere for Autonomous Agriculture
Deere connection could push Farm, agriculture use of roboticsJohn Deere Doubles Down on Silicon Valley and Robots By WiredJohn Deere recently announced that it...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Open Searches for NSF CISE Division Directors
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information...
From Putting People First
Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy
Danish social scientist Michael Bang Petersen illuminates the evolutionary foundations and social processes involved in the spread of outright falsehoods.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hospital Security Bug
Seems a considerable issue, with broad ransomware target. How many other targets like this exist? Security Bug Affects Nearly All Hospitals in North AmericaTechRadar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Tech Giants Driving Africa
Had seen other indications of this,Huawei, Kunlun and China’s tech giants drive a quiet revolution in Africa’s fintech with mobile payment apps and wallets in...
From Putting People First
The drive for privacy and the difficulty of achieving it in the digital age
People care and act to manage their privacy, but face steep psychological and economic hurdles that make not just desired, but also desirable privacy nearly unattainable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative
Given the destructive results from ransomware and cyberattacks, makes much sense to combine efforts both governmental and private company here. See the linksU...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protect Against BlackMatter Ransomware Before It’s Offered
Somewhat unclear the breadth of what is being offered, but interesting. Protect Against BlackMatter Ransomware Before It’s OfferedInsikt GroupEditor’s Note: The...
From Computational Complexity
Combing two posts: Blankface (Scott Aa) and Is Science Slowing Down? (Scott Al)
(I also posted this to the Less Wrong Website. At least I tried to- I don't quite know if or when it will appear there as its my first post there.) Some papersblankfaces...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cornell Platform Teaches Nonexperts to use Machine Learning
Like to see this and it can control model implications.Platform Teaches Nonexperts to Use MLCornell Chronicle, Louis DiPietro, July 28, 2021An interactive machine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hearing a Cyberattack
Like the general idea: Do You Hear What I Hear? A Cyberattack.Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Security and Privacy InstituteDaniel Tkacik, July 30, 2021Carnegie...
From The Eponymous Pickle
No AI Tools to Catch Covid Worked?
Failures can be useful if you understand the reason why. Did we learn nothing beyond that? And then, what was the why of not learning anything?Artificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telling the Data's Story
Good thoughts, cant say we ever did this completely, would have been especially useful with the metadata, which tends to me less well understood. In someData...
From The Eponymous Pickle