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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and their Sidewalk Experiment
Is this a crowdsourced experiment? Are we being forced to participate? A true value to consumers? Dangerous or not? Amazon provides their considerable technical...
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Simpler Attacks Occuring on Operatonal Technology
We need more and effective protection.Cyberattacks on operational technology are on the rise in ZDnetCommon techniques are setting a low bar for attacks on control...
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Robots Smiling Back
Not sure how much this buys you, but it makes sense where creating a android-like image to have emotion matching to group or task. We experimented only slightly...
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EU Post Pandemic Wallets
Wondering how far this will go, likely as good as the number of times it is asked for. I note its use is not mandatory. EU Plans Digital ID Wallet for Post-Pandemic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of Central Bank Digital Currencies
As usual, an interesting piece from Irving's Blog (Below an intro, details and much more at the link) The Emergence of Central Bank Digital Currencies By Irving...
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Thinking Federated AI
Good general idea, further detailed at the link.Changing How Data is Used By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 1, 2021The ability to examine...
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IOT Security from CyLab
Looks to be a good effort underway. In general IOT devices have high levels of security danger, because they are minimally protected to begin with, are oftenCyLab's...
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Free Will an Illusion?
No I don't think so, but we should also consider the alternative. Free will drives action towards goals, and we should expect that of people and systems. 'Free'...
From insideHPC
The New Frontier for Data Management: Edge-Core-Cloud
By Eric Bassier, Quantum Corp. With the proliferation of IoT devices, sensors and robots spanning industries such as autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, surveillance...
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IBM and UK Research Quantum
Many big players are inventing in quantum. Watch it. And the implications for things like optimization, crypto and analytics in general. IBM partners with...
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FBI Classifies Ransomware
I mentioned the FBI recently, that given all all the resources we provide them, they should be able to 'solve', or at least make far less dangerous the curse of...
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Security and Human Behavior
Currently much more involved in security issues of late. I see that Bruce Schneier is blogging and talking about the Security and Human Behavior conference in...
From insideHPC
US-China Tech Rivalry Takes 2 New HPC-Related Turns
Two new developments emerged this week in the US-China technology rivalry that have bearing on the HPC futures of the two superpowers. According to a Reuters story...
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End of Silicon Valley as We Know it?
Just Saw Tim O'Reilly's column from March. Provocative thoughts. Good read. Been a person who dove into the valley in the 90s, working with the Institute for...
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IKEA Digital Trasformation
A long time follower of IKEA, both as a customer, and briefly interacting during our building innovation centers. Most notably in their use of VR approaches to...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squids in Space
NASA is sending baby bobtail squid into space. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Directional Smells, Virtual Odors, Stereo Smell
In our innovation enters we tried to enhance smell, but not usually directionally. It was expected that the people would determine changes in smell by their own...
From insideHPC
2021 iRODS User Group Meeting June 8-11
June 4, 2021 – The worldwide iRODS user community will connect online from June 8 – 11 for the 13th Annual iRODS User Group Meeting – four days of learning, sharing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Camera that Knows Where it is
Think of a camera as a means of adding information to a database about space.Bristol Researchers' Camera Knows Exactly Where It IsUniversity of Bristol News (U.K...
From The Noisy Channel