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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 Schneier on Security
On North Korea’s Cyberattack Capabilities
Excellent New Yorker article on North Korea’s offensive cyber capabilities.
From Schneier on Security
Backdoor Found in Codecov Bash Uploader
Developers have discovered a backdoor in the Codecov bash uploader. It’s been there for four months. We don’t know who put it there. Codecov said the breach allowed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Palm Swipe Scanning at Whole Foods
We experimented with a number of ID/payment methods. From Iris to thumbprint to Face. But not palm swipe scanning, installed at Wholefoods now. Contact-less...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Continuous and Dynamic Threat Modeling
Well done post from Cisco, with useful explanatory visuals. Strongly agree. Using and applying specific risk models. The Need for Continuous and Dynamic Threat...
From insideHPC
Atos’ BullSequana Powers First EuroHPC Supercomputer at IZUM in Slovenia
Maribor, Slovenia, Paris, April 21, 2021 – Atos and the Institute of Information Science (IZUM) in Maribor, Slovenia, today announce that the first EuroHPC supercomputer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Working on Detecting COVID from a Smartphone
More detail, here from GE on their work on detecting COVID from a smartphone.GE Scientists Developing Technology to Add COVID-19 Virus Detector to Your Mobile Device...
From insideHPC
Human Brain Project and EBRAINS: Call to Build Services for Sensitive Data
April 21, 2021 – The Human Brain Project and its research infrastructure EBRAINS are looking for partners to help them offer compliant data solutions to the scientific...
From insideHPC
Cerebras Systems: 2.5 Trillion-plus Transistors in 7nm-based 2nd Gen Wafer Scale Engine
Maker of the world’s largest microprocessors, Cerebras Systems, today unveiled what it said is the largest AI chip, the Wafer Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2) — successor...
From insideHPC
Qumulo Extends to Asia Pacific; Expands Partnership with HPE
SEATTLE — April 20, 2021 — Qumulo, focused on enterprise file data management across hybrid-cloud environments, today announced the expansion of its global operations...
From CERIAS Blog
50 Years, and Lessons (Not) Learned
Recently, I had cause to reflect on some of what I have done in my career. As one result, I posted a blog entry about how many programming languages I have learned...
From CERIAS Blog
50 Years, and Lessons (Not) Learned
Recently, I had cause to reflect on some of what I have done in my career. As one result, I posted a blog entry about how many programming languages I have learned...
From insideHPC
CEA-Leti Announces EU Project to Mimic Multi-Timescale Processing of Biological Neural Systems
GRENOBLE, France – April 20, 2021 – CEA-Leti announced today the launch of an EU project to develop a novel class of algorithms, devices and circuits that reproduce...
From insideHPC
Altair’s Global HPC Summit 2021 May 11-12
Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) will hold its virtual Global HPC Summit on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 11-12 featuring HPC professionals and end users from a range of industries...
From Schneier on Security
When AIs Start Hacking
If you don’t have enough to worry about already, consider a world where AIs are hackers. Hacking is as old as humanity. We are creative problem solvers. We exploit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MBRL Tuning for Partially Understood Environments
Below is very technical, but I do like some of the background statements such as 'solving tasks in a partially understood environment ...'. And the idea ofThe...
From insideHPC
FABULOS Project: From the Idea to Urban Autonomous Driving
Helsinki — April 20, 2021 — The three-year-long Horizon 2020 project FABULOS (Future Automated Bus Urban Level Operation System) has come to an end. For Sensible...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Spotlight – Machine Learning for Storage and Execution Layers of Database Systems
Ibrahim Sabek began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving his PhD from the University of Minnesota in January 2020. Sabek is at the Massachusetts Institute...
From insideHPC
Xilinx Launches Kria System-on-Modules for Edge AI
SAN JOSE, April 20, 2021 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today introduced the Kria portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs), production-ready small form factor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Database of World Management Practices
This came to my attention. Could have been useful, depending on how precise the practices were detailed, in past modeling efforts. This effort under way for...
From insideHPC