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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
AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos
Wow: To test PIGEON’s performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online. Some photos...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Sqids
They’re short unique strings: Sqids (pronounced “squids”) is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers. These IDs are short...
From Schneier on Security
AI and Lossy Bottlenecks
Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in many systems. One such limitation is information and logistical...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: First pages of the book
(This is an excerpt from my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It". The first sentence and first ...
From Schneier on Security
New iPhone Security Features to Protect Stolen Devices
Apple is rolling out a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that seems well thought out: When Stolen Device Protection is turned on, Face ID or Touch ID authentication...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Tonight, 8pm on BBC Four – the first of three Christmas Lectures for young people on Artificial Intelligence
If you're near a television or computer at 8pm you can watch the first of this year's Christmas Lectures, all about artificial intelligence.
From Schneier on Security
Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps
Google Maps now stores location data locally on your device, meaning that Google no longer has that data to turn over to the police.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent Calendar – Day 25 bonus Christmas crackers: have you ever seen this cracker joke?
If you’re pulling a Christmas cracker today look out for this now famous but fairly puzzling ‘joke’ – Q: What kind of cough medicine does Dracula take?A: Con medicine...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 23: Father Christmas – checking his list, spotting the errors
Our CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar has now been running for 23 days! That’s one post every single day, matching a computing-themed blog post to the image...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Parts into Fertilizer
It’s squid parts from college dissections, so it’s not a volume operation. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in thehere...
From Schneier on Security
Data Exfiltration Using Indirect Prompt Injection
Interesting attack on a LLM: In Writer, users can enter a ChatGPT-like session to edit or create their documents. In this chat session, the LLM can retrieve information...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023: wreaths and rope memory – weave your own space age computer
Each day throughout December (until Christmas Day) we’ll be publishing a computing-themed blog post suggested by the picture on the front of our Advent Calendar...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Have I Been Cheating at Wordle?
What natural streaks say about recent facile chess cheating accusations Sundials source Frank King programmed an ancestor of Wordle at Cambridge University in the...
From insideHPC
Lightmatter Announces $155M Funding Round, Expands Photonic Chip Deployments
December 19, 2023, BOSTON — Photonics company Lightmatter announced it has raised a $155M Series C-2 led by GV (Google Ventures) and Viking Global Investors, with...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 21: stars and celestial navigation
Every day from the 1st to the 25th of December this blog will publish a Christmas Computing post, as part of our CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar. On the...
From insideHPC
Arrcus Joins Ultra Ethernet Consortium for AI and HPC Data Center Networking
SAN JOSE –Dec. 19, 2023 – Arrcus, a hyperscale networking software company, announced it has joined the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a Linux Foundation initiative...
From insideHPC
EuroHPC JU Issues Quantum Hosting Call
Dec. 19, 2023 — The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a call for expression of interest to select hosting entities...
From insideHPC
qPOC: QauntumBasel, D-Wave and VINCI Energies in HVAC Design Proof-of-Concept
PALO ALTO, Calif. & BURNABY, British Columbia–December 19, 2023 — A quantum proof of concept (qPoC) project in the area of sustainable building design has beenqPOC...
From The Noisy Channel
Query Understanding and Ecommerce
Yesterday, I had the privilege to deliver a “last lecture” at eBay, where I have been working with the query science team for nearly 6 years. I took the opportunity...
From Computational Complexity