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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
Find out about Dr Heather Turner's EPSRC project to increase diversity and representation in software (R programming language) and about the role of Research Software...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | January 3, 2024 at 06:21 AM
NYT Science puzzlers, Claudine Gay’s resignation, and in memoriam Frank Ryan Clockwise: src1, src2, src3 Roxanne and George Miller, Claudine Gay, and Frank Ryan...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | January 2, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Betty White died on December 31, 2021. When I mention that, even now, some people are surprised that they didn't hear about it. Why? Because she died AFTER allarticles...gasarch From Computational Complexity | January 2, 2024 at 01:12 PM
TikTok seems to be skewing things in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. (This is a serious analysis, and the methodology looks sound.)
Conclusion: Substantial...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 2, 2024 at 07:04 AM
Artificial Intelligence and P=NP Enio Moraes is the Product and Engineering Director of Semantix in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Semantix provides AI platforms for businesses...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | December 31, 2023 at 12:43 AM
Parenting does not appear to be able to determine the personality traits of a child. When the last ice age ended, 12,000 years ago, the Sahara was green and full...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | December 30, 2023 at 03:18 PM
As we embark on 2024, Shahin and Doug offer this 2023 Year in Review special edition looking back at one of the most eventful years in the recent history of HPC...staff From insideHPC | December 29, 2023 at 01:21 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 29, 2023 at 07:03 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 29, 2023 at 05:08 AM
Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in many systems. One such limitation is information and logistical...B. Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 28, 2023 at 07:01 AM
(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
...Greg Linden From Geeking with Greg | December 27, 2023 at 01:24 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 27, 2023 at 07:01 AM
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.Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 26, 2023 at 12:51 PM
Google Maps now stores location data locally on your device, meaning that Google no longer has that data to turn over to the police.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 26, 2023 at 07:03 AM
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 25, 2023 at 07:42 AM
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 23, 2023 at 02:58 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 22, 2023 at 05:08 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 22, 2023 at 07:05 AM
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...Jo Brodie From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 22, 2023 at 03:00 AM
What natural streaks say about recent facile chess cheating accusations Sundials source Frank King programmed an ancestor of Wordle at Cambridge University in the...KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | December 21, 2023 at 03:32 PM