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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 Schneier on Security
Theft of CIA's "Vault Seven" Hacking Tools Due to Its Own Lousy Security
The Washington Post is reporting on an internal CIA report about its "Vault 7" security breach: The breach -- allegedly committed by a CIA employee -- was discovered...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Welcomes Six New UA Ambassadors
By Ajay Data, Chair of the UASG The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is proud to welcome six new UA Ambassadors into the UASG Ambassador Program for FY21...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on an IDE for Teaching CS
Amy Ko posted a slide deck about CS education in higher education from a presentation she made to a group at Microsoft. There is a ton of stuff in there. I need...
From insideHPC
PRACE Awards Hundreds of Millions More Core Hours to Combat COVID-19
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has issued an additional 10 awards of supercomputing resources, with a total of 227.6 million core hours...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comments on the Return of Retail
in His Curious Voyager: My colleague Walter Riker writes:What will the return of retail look like in the coming months - years?Recently, because of the Pandemic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Images Sharper, More secure?
A remarkable approach is described, sharper images for human eyes, but too sharp for the task of recognition? Implications for security?AI Makes Blurry FacesDuke...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Intuitive Language for Quantum Computers
Is it better t have a coding method devoted to an innovation like quantum, or one that provides the greatest accessibility?The First Intuitive Programming Language...
From Schneier on Security
Zoom Will Be End-to-End Encrypted for All Users
Zoom is doing the right thing: it's making end-to-end encryption available to all users, paid and unpaid. (This is a change; I wrote about the initial decision...
From My Biased Coin
Algorithms with Predictions: Survey and Workshop
There's a whole new, interesting theory trend -- Algorithms with Predictions. The idea, spurred by advances in machine learning, is that you assume you have predictor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Enforces Distancing with AI
Somewhat novel application which I assume uses location and image analysis to report and manage distance rules. More details at the link.Amazon uses AI-powered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Takes Auto Echo to UK, Canada and Parts of Europe
Thought I had detected less support to auto assistants by Amazon, but this indicates they are going again, to new regions and likely regulation. Extending in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human Dynamics in Decision Making
Have thought that we need better understanding of our decision making, at least if we believe in useful biomimicry to build intelligent systems. Here an interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security of The Form and Parameters of Neural Nets.
Out of Cornell University an intriguing article that deals with how neural nets react to adversarial attacks in their energy consumption. As predicted by simulation...
From Schneier on Security
Bank Card "Master Key" Stolen
South Africa's Postbank experienced a catastrophic security failure. The bank's master PIN key was stolen, forcing it to cancel and replace 12 million bank cards...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
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Some thoughts on P versus NP Norbert Blum is a computer science theorist at the University of Bonn, Germany. He has made important contributions to theory over...
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Some thoughts on P versus NP Norbert Blum is a computer science theorist at the University of Bonn, Germany. He has made important contributions to theory over...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Subscriptions and IFTTT
During the earliest days of looking at behavior in the smart home, we examined subscription methods. And talked to Spotify when they emerged. Now here an upcoming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will Voice Tech Shape Post Pandemic Office?
If it is a true 'post' pandemic, inclined to think the change will not be that substantial. A mix of bad memories of those times, and enjoying actual human interaction...
From insideHPC
Sandia Selects SoftIron File and Object Storage for Stria Cluster
Sandia National Laboratories Vanguard program has selected SoftIron, Ltd., to provide supplemental file and object storage for Sandia’s ARM-based Stria high performance...
From Schneier on Security
Eavesdropping on Sound Using Variations in Light Bulbs
New research is able to recover sound waves in a room by observing minute changes in the room's light bulbs. This technique works from a distance, even from a building...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog