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UX needs a sense of urgency about AI
From Putting People First

UX needs a sense of urgency about AI

"UX professionals must seize the AI career imperative or become irrelevant", writes Jakob Nielsen in his blog UX Tigers, particularly with current AI-driven tools...

Friday Squid Blogging: Cleaning Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Cleaning Squid

Two links on how to properly clean squid. I learned a few years ago, in Spain, and got pretty good at it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...

LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear
From Schneier on Security

LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear

Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. I’m particularly interested in a...

TSMC Moves Its Renewable Energy Target  Forward to 2040
From insideHPC

TSMC Moves Its Renewable Energy Target Forward to 2040

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Sep. 15, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced an acceleration of its RE100 sustainability timetable, moving its target for...

On Technologies for Automatic Facial Recognition
From Schneier on Security

On Technologies for Automatic Facial Recognition

Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people: With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand’s head, Facebook could prevent users from...

ISC 2024: Call for Presentations Is Open
From insideHPC

ISC 2024: Call for Presentations Is Open

Hamburg – Call for presentations at ISC 2024 is now open for scientists and engineers from academia, industry and government to contribute discussions of theirISC...

QuEra and Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Partner on Quantum in Sejong City, South Korea 
From insideHPC

QuEra and Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Partner on Quantum in Sejong City, South Korea 

BOSTON and SEJONG CITY, South Korea and DAEJEON, South Korea  – September 14, 2023 – Neutral-atom quantum comuting company QuEra Computing, the Sejong Special Autonomous...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements
From Schneier on Security

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at swampUP 2023 in San Jose, California, on September 13, 2023 at 11:35 AM PT. The...

From Computational Complexity

Mr. Jaeger and The Scroll

There were three major influencers in my educational journey: Mike Sipser, my PhD advisor at Berkeley and MIT, Juris Hartmanis who founded the field of computational...

Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store
From Schneier on Security

Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store

Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store. An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been...

NSF Invests $76M in 4 Physics Frontiers Centers – with an Accent on Quantum
From insideHPC

NSF Invests $76M in 4 Physics Frontiers Centers – with an Accent on Quantum

Exploring, understanding and harnessing mysterious phenomena at the frontiers of physics are the aims of four research centers to be backed by $76 million in funding...

Code Intelligence Launches LLM-Powered AI-Assistant for Software Security
From insideHPC

Code Intelligence Launches LLM-Powered AI-Assistant for Software Security

Bonn, Germany,  September 13th, 2023 – Code Intelligence today announced CI Spark, an LLM-powered AI-assistant for software security testing. CI Spark automatically...

Final Reminder to Submit Challenge Problems Requiring AI/OR Collaboration
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Final Reminder to Submit Challenge Problems Requiring AI/OR Collaboration

This is a final reminder to please submit your Challenge Problems which require collaboration between the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR)...

Quantum Corp. Announces Pre-Configured ActiveScale Cold Storage Bundles
From insideHPC

Quantum Corp. Announces Pre-Configured ActiveScale Cold Storage Bundles

SAN JOSE, Sept. 13, 2023 – Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), an unstructured data storage company, today announced pre-configured bundles designed to simplify...

Transcoding Unicode strings at crazy speeds with AVX-512
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Transcoding Unicode strings at crazy speeds with AVX-512

In software, we store strings of text as arrays of bytes in memory using one of the Unicode Transformation Formats (UTF), the most popular being UTF-8 and UTF-16...

Zero-Click Exploit in iPhones
From Schneier on Security

Zero-Click Exploit in iPhones

Make sure you update your iPhones: Citizen Lab says two zero-days fixed by Apple today in emergency security updates were actively abused as part of a zero-click...

D-Wave Demonstrates Quantum Coherence Results with Fluxonium Qubits
From insideHPC

D-Wave Demonstrates Quantum Coherence Results with Fluxonium Qubits

PALO ALTO, Calif., BURNABY, B.C., — September 13, 2023 — Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) announced  progress in its development of high...

New Testing Shows Progress and Opportunities for Improvement in Support of Chinese IDNs
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

New Testing Shows Progress and Opportunities for Improvement in Support of Chinese IDNs

By the China UA Local Initiative (CDNI) The number of Internet users in China recently surpassed 1 billion and China now accounts for about one-fifth of all Internet...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

2023 NAE Meeting

One of the new members they will welcome Telle Whitney has just been selected to be a new member of the National Academy of Engineering. I will see her at the next...

SiMa.ai Debuts Palette Edgematic for Edge ML Applications
From insideHPC

SiMa.ai Debuts Palette Edgematic for Edge ML Applications

SAN JOSE, Sept. 12, 2023 — SiMa.ai, an embedded edge machine learning company, today launched Palette Edgematic, a free visual development environment designedSiMa...
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