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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
Whats Next for Remote Work
From McKinsey: What’s next for remote work: An analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and nine countriesThe future of remote work is likely to be hybrid in the wake...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vaccinated? Show us Proof.
In the NY Times, Interesting positioning. To travel, for work, for school? To get services? To Survive? Obvious, or chilling? Vaccinated? Show Us YourThe...
From insideHPC
Nimbix Announces First Multi-cloud HPC Platform with Arm Support
Dallas, Dec. 15, 2020 — Nimbix, the high performance computing (HPC) cloud platform provider, today announced support for the Arm architecture in its JARVICE XE...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unrolling the SolarWinds Attack and Implications
The recent SolarWinds hack, started this March, and was apparently much more serious than expected, including many government and defense applications. I will...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Cognitive biases
One-sided bet: People commonly assume implicitly that their actions may only have good outcomes. For example, increasing the minimum wage in a country may onlyContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers and Mandating Vaccines
Been hearing some of inoculation undercurrent, and about making it a condition of employment. Are retailers facing a no-win decision in mandating vaccines for...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC 2020 Highlights
The following is a guest blog from CCC Chair Liz Bradley. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), like the rest of the world, had to shift our focus and restructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Roadside Assistance
Been examining some voice in car applications of smart home solutions. Extending the confines of the home. Here is one sent to me by Walter Riker.Alexa-enabled...
From Apophenia
The US Federal Government Needs a VP of Engineering, not a CTO
If you look at the roster of the Biden-Harris transition team, it’s quickly apparent that the incoming administration is tech-forward. Given the systematic dismantlement...
From insideHPC
PRACE: Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources from DECI-17 and EUDAT
The PRACE DECI programme provides cross-national access to European Tier-1 HPC resources (national systems). Access will be awarded for a period of 12 months, beginning...
From Computational Complexity
Optiland
Many of you have heard of Russell Impagliazzo's five worlds from his 1995 classic A personal view of average-case complexity In short Algorithmica: P = NP orHeuristica...
From insideHPC
Cambridge Quantum Computing Investing in Cybersecurity, Other Near-Term Quantum Solutions
Cambridge, UK, December 16, 2020 — Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a specialist in quantum software and quantum algorithms designed to leverage quantum hardware...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Store Privacy Nutrition Labels
Nice idea. How about also security nutrition labels? Too hard, too scary? Apple's Privacy Nutrition Labels, available now and good for business by Jonny Evans...
From insideHPC
Simplifying Persistent Container Storage for the Open Hybrid Cloud
This ESG Technical Validation documents remote testing of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage with a focus on the ease of use and breadth of data services. Containers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger in Top 10 E-Commerce Companies
Been impressed by looks at what Kroger is doing.Kroger breaks into top 10 U.S. e-commerce companies for first time By Marianne Wilson - jn CSAThe Kroger Co.’s...
From insideHPC
WekaIO and Rancher Labs in Alliance to Simplify Kubernetes Deployments
CAMPBELL, Calif. – December 16, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), specializing in high-performance and scalable NVMe-optimized file storage, today announced that Weka FileWekaIO...
From insideHPC
CEA Outlines Indigenous Path to European Exascale
CEA, the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission, today presented what it said is a path to European exascale utilizing technologies that combine...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Virtual reality… millions but not tens of millions… yet
In February 2016, I placed a bet against Greg Linden in these terms: within the next three years, starting in March of this year, we would sell at least 10 million...
From Schneier on Security
Cellebrite Can Break Signal
Cellebrite announced that it can break Signal. (Note that the company has heavily edited its blog post, but the original — with lots of technical details — wasarticle...
From Geeking with Greg