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QR Code Scam
From Schneier on Security

QR Code Scam

An enterprising individual made fake parking tickets with a QR code for easy payment.

Will a Spot Robot  Make LA Safer?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Will a Spot Robot Make LA Safer?

No, and it won't even get the chance to.See Spot Spy? New Generation of Police Robots Faces BacklashLos Angeles Times, Libor Jan; Gregory Yee,   December 21, 2022...

Banning Your Enemies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Banning Your Enemies

 Intriguing play, enemies, or some lesser or even arbitrary qualification?  Note is different than making a mistaken identification.   Is a safety based ban OK?...

On the End of Programming
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the End of Programming

 Many, like myself started our career in coding. This should increase security by standardizing safer coding approaches.  Or will it?  The End of Programming  (Opinion)...

Police Tap COVID-19 Tech to Expand Global Surveillance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Police Tap COVID-19 Tech to Expand Global Surveillance

Tracking of many kinds interacting. Police Tap COVID-19 Tech to Expand Global SurveillanceBy Associated Press, December 27, 2022A worshiper in the Old City of Jerusalem...

Virtual Clothes Could Help Solve Fashion's Waste Problem
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Clothes Could Help Solve Fashion's Waste Problem

I Worked more on cleansing clothes rather than creating them.  Note Blockchain use.  Phygital.  Hmmm.  Virtual Clothes Could Help Solve Fashion's Waste ProblemBy...

OpenAI ChatGPT Imitating Academic Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

OpenAI ChatGPT Imitating Academic Work

Using and detecting. OpenAI's ChatGPT Raises Alarm Over Student CheatingBy Financial Times, December 27, 2022There is widespread concern that students will useOpenAI's...

On Speculative Execution
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Speculative Execution

 Out of order, and dynamic. What Is Speculative Execution?By Joel Hruska on June 10, 2022With a new Apple security flaw in the news, it’s a good time to revisit...

The joke Turing test
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The joke Turing test

A funny thing happened on the way to the computer by Peter W. McOwan, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) Laugh and the world laughs with you they...

McD's Automation Plans
From The Eponymous Pickle

McD's Automation Plans

More on McD's automation efforts,  apparently the automation of everything but the food preparation.  Following closely.  McD’s gets decidedly mixed reactions to...

Donald Knuth's Christmas 2022 Lecture
From The Eponymous Pickle

Donald Knuth's Christmas 2022 Lecture

A person I fondly connected with via this books back in the 70s, always interesting:    Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is About Trees  ... '

Microsoft Research Looks Back at Progress in AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Research Looks Back at Progress in AI

 Microsoft talks about some of its efforts. Research @ Microsoft 2022: A look back at a year of accelerating progress in AIPublished December 19, 20222022 has seen...

Japan Prepares for Defense
From The Eponymous Pickle

Japan Prepares for Defense

 In the near past you never heard much about Japan's defense forces (SDF),  investment was relatively low,  but with potential nearby threats,  that is changing...

Merlin AI Launches First ChatGPT iOS and Android Mobile App
From The Eponymous Pickle

Merlin AI Launches First ChatGPT iOS and Android Mobile App

MerlinAI and IOS For a ChatGPT  Merlin AI Launches First ChatGPT iOS and Android Mobile AppERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on December 23, 2022 Mobile app developer Dogtown Media...

On a Trip to Infinity
From The Eponymous Pickle

On a Trip to Infinity

Math in Netflix"The most intrusive animation is a train that twice interrupts the mathematician Moon Duchin, who is reflecting on what it would mean for a mathematical...

2D Material May Enable Ultra-Sharp Cellphone Photos in Low Light
From The Eponymous Pickle

2D Material May Enable Ultra-Sharp Cellphone Photos in Low Light

Most interesting, worked on a project that needed to get low light images for input to modeling.2D Material May Enable Ultra-Sharp Cellphone Photos in Low Light...

Arresting IT Administrators
From Schneier on Security

Arresting IT Administrators

This is one way of ensuring that IT keeps up with patches: Albanian prosecutors on Wednesday asked for the house arrest of five public employees they blame for...

The Chinese room: zombie attack!
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The Chinese room: zombie attack!

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (From the cs4fn archive) Iain M Banks’s science fiction novels about ‘The Culture’ imagine a universe inhabitedContinue...

Big Ideas in Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Ideas in Tech

 Nicely done,  Big Ideas in Tech for 2023: An a16z Omnibus     by Andreessen AI, machine & deep learning  bio + health  consumer  crypto & web3  ecommerce  enterprise...

Netflix Password Sharing may Be illegal, says UK government:  BBC
From The Eponymous Pickle

Netflix Password Sharing may Be illegal, says UK government: BBC

In the BBC on password sharing.    Illegal vs allowed?  Copyright law involved?   Intellectual Property. Netflix password sharing may be illegal, says UK government...
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