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Candiru: Another Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
From Schneier on Security

Candiru: Another Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer

Citizen Lab has identified yet another Israeli company that sells spyware to governments around the world: Candiru. From the report: Summary: Candiru is a secretive...

Train Adapt, Optimize:    TAO
From The Eponymous Pickle

Train Adapt, Optimize: TAO

More of interest on the NVIDIA TAO effort:Fast Track AI Model Adaptation with TAOBuilding a state-of-the-art deep learning model is a complex and time-consuming...

Spend Less on HPC/AI Storage (and more on CPU/GPU compute)
From insideHPC

Spend Less on HPC/AI Storage (and more on CPU/GPU compute)

[SPONSORED POST] In this whitepaper courtesy of HPE, you'll learn about the three approaches that can help you to feed your CPU- and GPU-accelerated compute nodes...

From Computational Complexity

Political Intersections: Trump honors Antifa member who was shot dead by police

 1) Trump and other reps have said the following about the Jan 6 event at various times:a) The Jan 6 event was freedom fighters who were fighting the noble fight...

Robots Adapt to Challenging Terrain in Real Time
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Adapt to Challenging Terrain in Real Time

Terrain-able robotics have been very impressive in recent years.   Here yet more advances by some relatively unexpected parties.  Ultimately will it become rare...

On-Demand Session: Deploying Edge AI in Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

On-Demand Session: Deploying Edge AI in Manufacturing

Useful piece with examples:Deploying Edge AI for manufacturing Supply Chains  In NVIDIA DeveloperOn-Demand Session: Deploying Edge AI in Manufacturing   By Amanda...

Cybercrime Intervention
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cybercrime Intervention

 A considerable, interesting piece on some of the work being done on getting inside cybercrime gangs.How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang?  in KrebsOnsecurity...

Image Improvement Synthesis Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Image Improvement Synthesis Models

 From the Google AI blog.  Interesting ways to improve images based on AI models.  Illustrative images at the link.High Fidelity Image Generation Using Diffusion...

Is the U.S. Labor Shortage the Big Break AI Needs?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is the U.S. Labor Shortage the Big Break AI Needs?

Labor needs and process are being re thought.too.Is the U.S. Labor Shortage the Big Break AI Needs?AI May Be the Big Break Labor NeedsHesitancy and misconceptions...

Warm AI is Better
From The Eponymous Pickle

Warm AI is Better

Would agree, but being right is better yet.  ....  in many cases we got AI to be engaging with our brands ... but like in any assistance style interaction, we want...

Embedding things in the Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Embedding things in the Blockchain

Note this article. also notable are the related comments.   Information can be embedded in a blockchain that is not related to its primary use.   A security issue...

China Requires Face scans for Game Night Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Requires Face scans for Game Night Use

More direct control of children and minor's use of games at specific hours.   Different from what Apple is planning in upcoming OS, where a person can define their...

Autonomous Drone Swarms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Autonomous Drone Swarms

 A favorite topic, where we proposed swarms of drones to work together tracking warehouse conditions.Autonomous Drone Swarm Can Localize Gas Leaks   By TU Delft...

Observations on #CSTA2021 Virtual Conference
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Observations on #CSTA2021 Virtual Conference

The CSTA 2021 Virtual Conference is in the books. I really did enjoy it and I learned a lot. Virtual conferences are different from in-person conferences and INotes...

Green Revolution Cooling Names Participants for Liquid Cooling Awareness Month
From insideHPC

Green Revolution Cooling Names Participants for Liquid Cooling Awareness Month

AUSTIN – July 16, 2021 – GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), the leader in single-phase data center liquid immersion cooling, announced it will partner with Dell, Intel...

REvil is Off-Line
From Schneier on Security

REvil is Off-Line

This is an interesting development: Just days after President Biden demanded that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia shut down ransomware groups attacking American...

DOE Funds $28M for Scientific Supercomputing Research Projects
From insideHPC

DOE Funds $28M for Scientific Supercomputing Research Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $28 million in funding for five research projects to develop software designed to better leverage DOE supercomputers...

Digital Version of the Euro?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Version of the Euro?

Complementing the existing monetary system.   Considering security too.  ECB Starts Work on Digital Version of the EuroCNBC,Silvia Amaro, July 14, 2021The European...

Chatbot explains Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chatbot explains Apps

Intriguing idea.  Could a similar means explain potential security issues with an App or system?  Or its uses in context.  I like the idea of explanatory analyses...

Time to Prepare Retail for Post Pandemic
From The Eponymous Pickle

Time to Prepare Retail for Post Pandemic

Below piece relates to the previous post in this blog, about technology shifts in the new era. Costs based on labor usage and consumer expectations, are driving...
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