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Crypto's Winter and Generative A.I.'s  Spring?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crypto's Winter and Generative A.I.'s Spring?

 Colleague Steve King Writes: Crypto's Winter and Generative A.I.'s SpringThe Washington Post's 'Crypto winter' has come. And it's looking more like an ice ageA...

Quantum Computing Architecture Could Connect Large-Scale Devices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computing Architecture Could Connect Large-Scale Devices

 Architecture from MIT, superconducting quantum chips Quantum Computing Architecture Could Connect Large-Scale DevicesMIT News, Adam Zewe, January 5, 2023A new...

Threats of Machine-Generated Text
From Schneier on Security

Threats of Machine-Generated Text

With the release of ChatGPT, I’ve read many random articles about this or that threat from the technology. This paper is a good survey of the field: what the threats...

Care is needed to use C++ std::optional with non-trivial objects
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Care is needed to use C++ std::optional with non-trivial objects

We often have to represent in software a value that might be missing. Different programming languages have abstraction for this purpose. A recent version of C++...

TSMC Reports Fourth Quarter Revenue of $19.9B, Up 27% YoY
From insideHPC

TSMC Reports Fourth Quarter Revenue of $19.9B, Up 27% YoY

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Jan. 12, 2023 — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced consolidated revenue of NT$625.53 billion, net income of NT$295.90 billion...

ChatGPT Is Enabling Script Kiddies to Write Functional Malware
From The Eponymous Pickle

ChatGPT Is Enabling Script Kiddies to Write Functional Malware

Have heard this several times this week,   Not quite ready yet, but could go that way ...  Might as they say help.   A concern. ChatGPT Is Enabling Script Kiddies...

Supercomputer Simulation Transforms Coal Like Material
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supercomputer Simulation Transforms Coal Like Material

 Unusual Direction for this kind of Sim effort, reading more at the link.  A new kind of Coal.  Material science uses?Supercomputer Simulations Transform Coal-Like...

NSF and NobleReach Emerge Partner in New Effort to Catalyze Research and Development in Biotechnology
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF and NobleReach Emerge Partner in New Effort to Catalyze Research and Development in Biotechnology

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and NobleReach Emerge are teaming up to push forward biotechnology development and translation. Biotechnology is a growing...

Agri Tech at CES
From The Eponymous Pickle

Agri Tech at CES

 Was asked to report on this and implications.  Seems a broad and deep look at data use.  Good idea. Tech at CES Shows How Farmers Can Save Time, Money, Environment...

CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI

Off we go with Robot Journalism ... CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI,   By Futurism, January 12, 2023CNET is far from the first; the Associated...

HPE Acquires Reproducible AI Startup Pachyderm for AI-at-Scale
From insideHPC

HPE Acquires Reproducible AI Startup Pachyderm for AI-at-Scale

HOUSTON – January 12, 2023 – HPE today announced an expansion to its AI-at-scale offerings with the acquisition of Pachyderm, a startup that delivers software,HPE...

AI Lawyers to Appear
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Lawyers to Appear

More integrated expertise based assistance.   A.I.-Powered 'Robot Lawyer' Will Appear in a U.S. Court for the First TimeBy The Week, January 10, 2023Consumer-focused...

From Computational Complexity

Semantic Search for the Blog

 As Google started to limit academic storage, I started looking at Google Takeout and started wondering what I could do with all that data. I downloaded all the...

Experian Privacy Vulnerability
From Schneier on Security

Experian Privacy Vulnerability

Brian Krebs is reporting on a vulnerability in Experian’s website: Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian,...

OpenAI Opens Waitlist for Paid Version of ChatGPT
From The Eponymous Pickle

OpenAI Opens Waitlist for Paid Version of ChatGPT

 Full steam ahead?  Monetizing and improving.   Ready when and how?    Been hearing interesting application stories.   A new World, or Hype? OpenAI opens waitlist...

Conventional Wisdom Watch: Matsuoka & Co. Take on 12 Myths of HPC
From insideHPC

Conventional Wisdom Watch: Matsuoka & Co. Take on 12 Myths of HPC

A group of HPC thinkers, including the estimable Satoshi Matsuoka of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan, have come together to challenge common...

Hedy Lamarr: The movie star, the piano player and the torpedo
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Hedy Lamarr: The movie star, the piano player and the torpedo

by Peter W McOwan, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) Hedy Lamarr was a movie star. Back in the 1940’s, in Hollywood’s Golden Age, she was considered...

ChatGPT Overhyped?  Opinion
From The Eponymous Pickle

ChatGPT Overhyped? Opinion

Noticed the hype, is it?   Andrew White writes below,  Artificial IntelligenceChatGPTGPT-3By Andrew White | January 05, 2023  I lean toward the hype being overblown...

General Dynamics Awarded $152M Operations Contract by Alabama Supercomputer Authority
From insideHPC

General Dynamics Awarded $152M Operations Contract by Alabama Supercomputer Authority

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – General Dynamics Information Technology has announced it was awarded a $152 million contract for the provisioning, management and operationGeneral...

Verne Global Announces New COO, CFO, GC
From insideHPC

Verne Global Announces New COO, CFO, GC

11th January 2023 – Verne Global, provider of sustainable data centre solutions for high intensity computing, has today announced the expansion of its senior leadership...
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