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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Playing With Code–Recursion
Recursion was never a big part of my toolbox but I am starting to appreciate it more recently. Regular readers know that I have been writing about and writing code...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Passes Strict New Data Privacy Law
Intriguing in the details. But data privacy for who? How is it applied legally? How will it be interpreted? China Passes Strict New Data Privacy Law By Alex...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Powering Smart Devices Indoors
We experimented with IOT powered by Solar indoors in retail settings. Common Solar Tech Can Power Smart Devices Indoors, NIST Study Finds By NIST August 20,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains
Interesting National Geographic article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Readhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can/Should a Machine Unlearn?
Important point. Remember my experience in maintenance of systems, always considered it a thing to be considered up front. Also, as is pointed out, there are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Company Innovation Traps
Some useful thoughts in the space: CPG companies can dodge three common innovation trapsImplementing proper checks and balances throughout the innovation process...
From insideHPC
UK Regulator Announces Additional Concern with Nvidia-Arm Deal
Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of UK microprocessor designer Arm has run into more regulatory roadblocks with today’s announcement by a British regulator...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Spectrum on Skin Display
A means of convenient and changeable skin display. Feasible, but is it broadly acceptable?SKIN DISPLAYS WILL GIVE WEARABLES THEIR INDEPENDENCEWhen the display...
From insideHPC
TACC’s Longhorn GPU Subsystem Helps Researchers Detect Potential COVID-19 Virus Vulnerability
Despite more than a year and a half of research, there are still many unknowns about how the virus that causes COVID-19 infects human cells. A deeper understanding...
From Computational Complexity
Trusting Scientists
A tweet that made me think. If you think you don't trust scientists, you're mistaken. You trust scientists in a million different ways every time you step onJuly...
From Schneier on Security
More on Apple’s iPhone Backdoor
In this post, I’ll collect links on Apple’s iPhone backdoor for scanning CSAM images. Previous links are here and here. Apple says that hash collisions in its CSAM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is a Semi-Fungible Token?
All sort of levels of fungibility are now floating about. Trying to keep it straight. What Is a ‘Semi-Fungible’ Crypto Token?Concert tickets, gift vouchers and...
From insideHPC
$61M Awarded by DOE for Quantum Information Science Research
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $61 million in funding awarded to infrastructure and research projects to advance quantum information science...
From insideHPC
SUSE Announces Professional Services on AWS Marketplace
August 19, 2021 — Nuremberg, Germany — SUSE, an enterprise-grade open source solutions company, today announced the availability of SUSE Professional Services –...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
RFI on Implementation Plan for a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource- Deadline Updated to Oct 1st
In July, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation released a Request For Information (RFI) to gather public input...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Developer Highlights
Was unable to visit this live, but here they are. Continue to .fo things that are ground breaking in delivering intelligent assistance to consumerAlexa Live 2021...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Quantum Error Correction
Always heard that error correction is the key challenge of quantum computing, here what appear to be advances by Google. Implications, some suggested here. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personalized Cancer Treatment
Is this the future? Personalizing cancer treatment with quantum computingPress Release / August 10, 2021As a partner of the Fraunhofer Competence Network Quantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Surpasses Wal-Mart Sales
Continued online retailer expansion.Amazon has surpassed Walmart as the world's top retail seller outside China; FactSet says people spent $610B+ on Amazon inNew...
From insideHPC