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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
Electronic Skin Generates its Own Power
A useful play. Solar-based Electronic Skin Generates Its Own Power IEEE Spectrum Payal Dhar December 13, 2020 Researchers from the U.K.'s University of Glasgow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Going TikTok?
Admit I barely knew of it before. But lately been getting a lot of forwarded TikTok references. And some about Wal-Mart.‘A true influencer program’: Inside Walmart...
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Names Brian Pawlowski Chief Development Officer
San Jose — Dec. 15, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced the expansion of its Executive Leadership Team with the appointment of Brian Pawlowski as...
From Schneier on Security
How the SolarWinds Hackers Bypassed Duo’s Multi-Factor Authentication
This is interesting: Toward the end of the second incident that Volexity worked involving Dark Halo, the actor was observed accessing the e-mail account of a user...
From insideHPC
iXsystems Introduces TrueNAS Hybrid Cloud SaaS for MSPs
San Jose – December 15, 2020 — The TrueNAS Open Storage portfolio was expanded today with the addition of TrueCommand Cloud – a cloud-based service for 24×365 TrueNAS...
From insideHPC
Kao Data Announces Two Senior Director Appointments
London, December 15, 2020 – Kao Data, developer and operator of advanced, carrier neutral data centres for high performance colocation, has today announced twoKao...
From insideHPC
XenData Joins Active Archive Alliance
Boulder, Colo. – December 15, 2020 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that XenData has joined the organization, promoting modern strategies to solveXenData...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comments on Fords Manufacturing Use of AI
In the past had many connections with Ford in analytics use, now they are talking AI. Here where they are talking applications in manufacturing.Ford’s Use of...
From insideHPC
Open Eye Consortium Announces 50Gbps LR1 and LR4 Specs for 5G
Dec. 15, 2020 — The Open Eye Consortium (Open Eye MSA) announced two new specifications targeted for 50Gbps per lane applications: LR1 and LR4 for 10 kilometers...
From insideHPC
EdgeConneX Increases Interconnection Options at Atlanta Data Center Campus with Bandwidth IG
Herndon, VA, – December 15, 2020 – EdgeConneX, developer of edge data centers, has announced Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is now available at...
From insideHPC
Pure Storage Announces Pure as-a-Service in AWS
Mountain View, Calif. – December 15, 2020 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) today announced the availability of Pure as-a-Service in AWS Marketplace and a new Cloud Block...
From Putting People First
Human-Centered Design Playbook by Australia’s Victoria State Government
This guide brings together key ideas showing how we can integrate human-centred design into our work in government and build the capability of public servants.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Converting floating-point numbers to integers while preserving order
Many programming languages have a number type corresponding to the IEEE binary64. In many languages such as Java or C++, it is called a double. A double value uses...
From insideHPC
ICM and SBI to Collaborate on Use of Garuda, Other Scientific Software Platforms
Dec. 14 – A memorandum of understanding between ICM University of Warsaw, Poland and Tokyo based The Systems Biology Institute (SBI) which was signed recently signals...
From insideHPC
Quantum Acquires Digital Asset Management Specialist Square Box Systems
San Jose, — Dec. 14, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced it has acquired Square Box Systems Ltd, a specialist in data cataloging, user collaboration...
From Schneier on Security
US Schools Are Buying Cell Phone Unlocking Systems
Gizmodo is reporting that schools in the US are buying equipment to unlock cell phones from companies like Cellebrite: Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents...
From Schneier on Security
Mexican Drug Cartels with High-Tech Spyware
Sophisticated spyware, sold by surveillance tech companies to Mexican government agencies, are ending up in the hands of drug cartels: As many as 25 private companies...
From Schneier on Security
Zodiac Killer Cipher Solved
The SF Chronicle is reporting (more details here), and the FBI is confirming, that a Melbourne mathematician and team has decrypted the 1969 message sent by the...
From Schneier on Security
Another Massive Russian Hack of US Government Networks
The press is reporting a massive hack of US government networks by sophisticated Russian hackers. Officials said a hunt was on to determine if other parts of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle