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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
WekaIO Expands Cloud Offering with Kubernetes Container Storage Interface
CAMPBELL, Calif. – August 18, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), provider of high-performance, scalable file storage for data-intensive applications, today introduced the Kubernetes...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Suzy Tichenor on the Need for Industrial Users of HPC to Get on the GPU Bandwagon
Suzy Tichenor is a long-time champion of helping companies gain access to the country’s most powerful computers. At the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National...
From Schneier on Security
Using Disinformation to Cause a Blackout
Interesting paper: "How weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city's power grid": Abstract: Social media has made it possible to manipulate the masses via...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF/VMware Partnership on The Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NGSDI) Program
The following is an announcement of a joint solicitation between NSF/VMware on The Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NGSDI) Program. Computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On a Return to Normal: How Long?
Wharton Public Policy takes a look:. A Return to ‘Normal’: How Long Will the Pandemic Last?Jul 14, 2020 North AmericaAmerican consumers are crowding back into“That...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Sterling Inventory Control Tower
Had this pointed out to me, aspects covering predictions of disruptions are most interesting.IBM Sterling Inventory Control Tower to Help Organizations Manage Inventory...
From Schneier on Security
Vaccine for Emotet Malware
Interesting story of a vaccine for the Emotet malware: Through trial and error and thanks to subsequent Emotet updates that refined how the new persistence mechanism...
From insideHPC
NNSA to Hold Nuclear Security Enterprise Virtual Job Fair August 26
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) will host a Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) virtual job fair Wednesday, Aug...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Apply to Attend the 2nd Annual Embedded Security Workshop
Interested in embedded security? Apply to join the second annual Embedded Security Workshop. The workshop will be hosted by Kevin Fu, former CCC Council Member...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating an Error Correcting Cat
I am well aware of the Schrödinger’s cat idea, were taught the concept in physics, but don't fully understand how this directly effects quantum physics's use in...
From Putting People First
Deutsche Bank Research on life after Covid-19
It will take years to recover from covid-19. This edition of Konzept, the online magazine of Deutsche Bank Research, analyses the many different ways in which the...
From insideHPC
IBM Launches 7nm POWER10 CPU
IBM today announced a new IBM POWER10 CPU family, its first 7nm form factor platform, built with Samsung, designed for enterprise hybrid cloud computing with up...
From Putting People First
[Book] Life After COVID-19: The Other Side of Crisis
Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and...
From insideHPC
An Adaptive Platform for Converged HPC/AI Workloads
In this sponsored post from our friends over at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), we see that from many years of experience working with numerous customers, the company...
From Computational Complexity
Mathematics is not commutative
In my poll of P vs NP and other issues, one of the questions was Is factoring in P? One of the most interesting answers was I...
From Schneier on Security
Robocall Results from a Telephony Honeypot
A group of researchers set up a telephony honeypot and tracked robocall behavior: NCSU researchers said they ran 66,606 telephone lines between March 2019 and January...
From Putting People First
Visions of the post-pandemic home
Vitra, the German manufacturing company, published this week a “set of hypotheses” on the future of the home, as living spaces are pushed to the limits.
From Putting People First
The ethnographer and the algorithm: beyond the black box
Angèle Christin argues that we can explicitly enroll algorithms in ethnographic research, which can shed light on unexpected aspects of algorithmic systems—including...
From Putting People First
[Book] Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms
The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of news
From The Eponymous Pickle