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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 insideHPC
Xilinx in 5G Partnership with Fujitsu
FPGA chip maker Xilinx, whose acquisition by AMD was announced last October, and Fujitsu, developer along with Japan’s RIKEN Center for Computational Science of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The National Science Foundation to Support a Series of Workshops on Pandemic Prediction and Prevention
The following is an announcement from the National Science Foundation. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has also been working in this space and recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
History of the VPN
Intriguing history, now finally becoming universal. Saw it first in the enterprise. Everything VPN is New Again in ACM QueueThe 24-year-old security model hasDavid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Quantum Computing
IBM seeing the future of quantum computing.IBM unveils ambitious plan for quantum computing software By Jeremy Kahn in FortuneThe company wants to make it easier...
From insideHPC
MediQuant’s Kel Pults Joins the Active Archive Alliance Board of Directors
Boulder, Colo., February 3, 2021 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Kel Pults, DHA, MSN, RN, and Chief Clinical Officer at MediQuant, has joined...
From insideHPC
Azure Quantum Now in Public Preview
February 1, 2021 — Azure Quantum, the world’s first full-stack, public cloud ecosystem for quantum solutions, is now open for business, according to Krysta Svore...
From Schneier on Security
Ransomware Profitability
Analyzing cryptocurrency data, a research group has estimated a lower-bound on 2020 ransomware revenue: $350 million, four times more than in 2019. Based on the...
From Schneier on Security
SonicWall Zero-Day
Hackers are exploiting zero-day in SonicWall: In an email, an NCC Group spokeswoman wrote: “Our team has observed signs of an attempted exploitation of a vulnerabilitythat...
From Schneier on Security
Web Credit Card Skimmer Steals Data from Another Credit Card Skimmer
MalwareBytes is reporting a weird software credit card skimmer. It harvests credit card data stolen by another, different skimmer: Even though spotting multiple...
From Schneier on Security
NoxPlayer Android Emulator Supply-Chain Attack
It seems to be the season of sophisticated supply-chain attacks. This one is in the NoxPlayer Android emulator: ESET says that based on evidence its researchers...
From Schneier on Security
Presidential Cybersecurity and Pelotons
President Biden wants his Peloton in the White House. For those who have missed the hype, it’s an Internet-connected stationary bicycle. It has a screen, a camera...
From Schneier on Security
Another SolarWinds Orion Hack
At the same time the Russians were using a backdoored SolarWinds update to attack networks worldwide, another threat actor — believed to be Chinese in origin —penetrate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Releases Speech Services
Useful capability for speech production from Azure/AIMicrosoft opens limited access to its neural text-to-speech AI in EngadgetAT&T and Warner Bros. used the tech...
From insideHPC
Things to Know When Assessing, Piloting, and Deploying GPUs – Part 3
In this insideHPC Guide, our friends over at WEKA suggest that when organizations decide to move existing applications or new applications to a GPU-influenced system...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Counting Google Searches for Boredom and Loneliness
Whew, most interesting ... or a more general privacy invasion that can be leveraged?How Google Searches Reveal the Hidden Cost of LockdownUniversity of WarwickResearchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Work From Anywhere Here to Stay
Mentioned this previously, Irving Wladawsky provides more links and backgrounds.Is Work-from-Anywhere Here to Stay? (many links in the below are shown by clicking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Solarwinds Malware
Schneier provides more 'Solarwinds' News this morning, lots of links to other analyses and opinions. Including some suggestions for addressing these kinds of threats...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Vehicles as Criminal Drug Mules
I recall this coming up in innovation meetings a number of years ago. And of course the vehicles involved will be automatically tracked and usage charged to someone...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Listen to the AAAS Sci-Mic Podcasts including the CCC’s Catalyzing Computing
Every February, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and the publisher of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle