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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
Iceotope Announces Retirement of CEO David Craig
London, 29th July 2024 – Liquid cooling company Iceotope has announced the retirement of David Craig from the position of CEO effective from 30th September 2024...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Announces Roadmap for Quantum Cloud Service for AI/ML
PALO ALTO, Calif. – July 29, 2024 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced it is strengthening the connection between quantum optimization, artificial intelligence...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Music & Computing: TouchKeys: getting more from your keyboard
TouchKeys - using computer science and electronics to let pianists shape the notes their keyboards make.
From The Noisy Channel
Search and the Art of Conversation
What is the job of a search application? A common answer is that it needs to return the best results for a query, sorted in relevance order. While this answer sounds...
From Schneier on Security
New Research in Detecting AI-Generated Videos
The latest in what will be a continuing arms race between creating and detecting videos: The new tool the research project is unleashing on deepfakes, called “MISLnet...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Global Chapter Summit 2024
The inaugural ACM-W Global Chapter Summit 2024 took place on May 22, 2024. This virtual event provided a forum for global ACM-W chapters to meet. Participants could...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Evolution of iPhone storage capacity
People who should know better often underestimate how fast our storage capacity has grown. We have been able to get 1 TB of storage on iPhones for the last three...
From Computational Complexity
In the future we will all have songs written about us, and it will be Lance's fault.
In response to my blog post about how its easier to FIND novelty songs (and other things) than it used to be (see here) Lance showed how easy it is to CREATE ahere...
From Putting People First
Two reports on the current state of user research
Maze and User Interviews, both USA-based entities providing user research platforms and user panels, published reports in the last months on the current state of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Storage costs are plummeting
Storage costs are plummeting like a skydiver in freefall—between 10 and 100 times cheaper with each passing decade. Meanwhile, the programmer population is growing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How big are your docker images?
Docker is a standard to deploy software on the cloud. Developers start with an existing image and add their own code before deploying their systems. How big are...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How much of your binary executable is just ASCII text?
We sometimes use binary executable which can span megabytes. I wondered: how much text is contained in these binary files? To find out, I wrote a Python scriptContinue...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Sunscreen from Squid Pigments
They’re better for the environment. Blog moderation policy.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Fulkerson Prize
The Fulkerson prize is given to: outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics and is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS)...
From Schneier on Security
Compromising the Secure Boot Process
This isn’t good: On Thursday, researchers from security firm Binarly revealed that Secure Boot is completely compromised on more than 200 device models sold by...
From insideHPC
UK Commits £106M to 5 Quantum Hubs
The UK government announced it will invest £106 million for five hubs to develop the use of quantum technology in medical scanners, secure communication networks...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Safer code in C++ with lifetime bounds
For better performance in software, we avoid unnecessary copies. To do so, we introduce references (or pointers). An example of this ideas in C++ is the std::string_view...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: CDT Releases Report on Reducing Disability Bias
In this installment of CCCs Weekly Computing News, we’re sharing an important report by the Center for Democracy & Technology that addresses the need for better...
From Schneier on Security
The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness
Friday’s massive internet outage, caused by a mid-sized tech company called CrowdStrike, disrupted major airlines, hospitals, and banks. Nearly 7,000 flights were...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing