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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
AI Cyber Defense for Zero-Day Threats
Don't see how this works without lots of operational data to leverage. And might it not be thwarted by adapting the system in some way? And a good understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Light Driven 3D Printing
See images at the link. Improving speed and precision.Dynamic 3D Printing Process Features Light-Driven TwistBy Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering, ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 13th 2021)
Researchers make inexpensive transparent wood. Our cells produce energy using their mitochondria. Researchers show that you can efficiently enrich cells with mitochondria...
From Schneier on Security
Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems
Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. It’s been going on since at least 2008....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micrometeorites are Falling
Now for something completely different, from studies of mine long ago. Did you know that there is a near continuous shower of space dust falling down on us? https...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weaknesses in ML
I like explanations of how a solution works in real world contexts. Lots of work to still do.Uncovering Unknown Unknowns in Machine Learning Google Blog., Thursday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Omnichannel Search Using AI
Brought to my attention, they link to an e-book they offer. Note the below is ad. I am unconnected, have not tried this, but the thoughts and offer looked interesting...
From insideHPC
Google Microsoft and Qualcomm Protest Nvidia-Arm Acquisition
On the heels of an announcement by Arm Holdings yesterday that its silicon partners in the third quarter of 2020 shipped 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, news stories...
From insideHPC
The Quantum Comprehension Gap and the Emergence of Quantum Ethics
Though years from potential fruition, quantum computing and its control has emerged as an issue among technology ethicists. But if a YouTube video released last...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Member Kevin Fu Appointed as FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has appointed Former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting COVID Spikes
Hmm, caution with such causal seeming predictions. But interesting. Google Search Can Help Predict Covid-19 Spikes The Jerusalem Post, Zachary Keyser, February...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standardizing Robot Operating Systems
Just because they use the same software does not mean they will 'get along'. Still the use of software that can communicate will make them easier to update and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Manufacturing Marketplace
Intriguing play here, will look into more details... pass them along and I will post an overview.Fetch.ai partners with FESTO on decentralised manufacturing marketplace...
From Schneier on Security
Browser Tracking Using Favicons
Interesting research on persistent web tracking using favicons. (For those who don’t know, favicons are those tiny icons that appear in browser tabs next to the...
From Schneier on Security
Virginia Data Privacy Law
Virginia is about to get a data privacy law, modeled on California’s law.
From Schneier on Security
WEIS 2021 Call for Papers
The 20th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2021) will be held online in June. We just published the call for papers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Network Has Learned to Identify Tree Species
Relates to my forestry work, could have been used to update inventories of species.Neural Network Has Learned to Identify Tree SpeciesBy Skolkovo Institute ofAn...
From Schneier on Security
Malicious Barcode Scanner App
Interesting story about a barcode scanner app that has been pushing malware on to Android phones. The app is called Barcode Scanner. It’s been around since 2017...
From Schneier on Security
Deliberately Playing Copyrighted Music to Avoid Being Live-Streamed
Vice is reporting on a new police hack: playing copyrighted music when being filmed by citizens, trying to provoke social media sites into taking the videos down...
From Schneier on Security