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On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers
From Schneier on Security

On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers

Many years ago, Matt Blaze and I talked about getting our hands on a casino-grade automatic shuffler and looking for vulnerabilities. We never did it—I remember...

Hidden Figures – NASA’s brilliant calculators #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Hidden Figures – NASA’s brilliant calculators #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB

The African-American women of NASA Langley who helped programme our way to the Moon.

Software Robots Gaining Ground in White-Collar Office World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Software Robots Gaining Ground in White-Collar Office World

ACM TECHNEWSSoftware Robots Gaining Ground in White-Collar Office WorldBy Bloomberg, October 3, 2022Software is making inroads into white-collar professions due...

Getty Images Bans AI Generated Artwork
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getty Images Bans AI Generated Artwork

Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges / Getty Images is worried about future copyright claimsBy JAMES VINCENT   in TheVergeGetty...

Advarsarial Machine Learning Attacks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advarsarial Machine Learning Attacks

 Out of Bruce Schneier; Adversarial ML Attack that Secretly Gives a Language Model a Point of ViewMachine learning security is extraordinarily difficult because...

Learning Material
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning Material

Mechanical Neural Networks:  Structural system of tunable beams  '    Novel idea. ACM TECHNEWSAI-Powered Material Can Learn Behaviors, AdaptBy Interesting Engineering...

Above and Beyond Scholarship  – Vetria Byrd, PhD
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Above and Beyond Scholarship – Vetria Byrd, PhD

Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: Life Sciences Society Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, 2006 Country of residence at the time of receiving...

NSA cyber chief says Ukraine war is compelling more intelligence sharing with industry
From The Eponymous Pickle

NSA cyber chief says Ukraine war is compelling more intelligence sharing with industry

 Cybersecurity as it evolves under global conditions. NSA cyber chief says Ukraine war is compelling more intelligence sharing with industryNSA Cybersecurity Directorate...

Protecting Biometric Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Protecting Biometric Data

 Regulation seeks protection of biometric data. Texas Attorney General Sues Google for Compiling Texans' Biometric DataOctober 21, 2022Texas Attorney General Ken...

Inflation-Adjusted Income for U.S. Engineers Drops
From The Eponymous Pickle

Inflation-Adjusted Income for U.S. Engineers Drops

Engineers Income. Inflation-Adjusted Income for U.S. Engineers DropsIEEE SpectrumTekla S. Perry, September 16, 2022The IEEE-USA 2022 Salary & Benefits Survey of...

Soft Robotics with Hydrogels
From The Eponymous Pickle

Soft Robotics with Hydrogels

Robotics continue to evolve.  Smaller, softer.   More specifically dedicated. Hydrogels pave the way for the future of soft roboticsby Giordana Verrengia, Carnegie...

Friday Squid Blogging: The Reproductive Habits of Giant Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: The Reproductive Habits of Giant Squid

Interesting: A recent study on giant squid that have washed ashore along the Sea of Japan coast has raised the possibility that the animal has a different reproductive...

Encountered and Reported Security Issues in MS Office
From The Eponymous Pickle

Encountered and Reported Security Issues in MS Office

In the most recent  ' Security Now  'Podcast #893'  by Steve Gibson, he discussed  the fact that Microsoft  has chosen not to fix a well understood security vulnerability...

How Should Companies Prepare for Cybersecurity Regulations?
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Should Companies Prepare for Cybersecurity Regulations?

Very good, useful piece,  there are many links,  use the link just below to get a version that includes all links in the original  ...A collection of observations...

Applying the Metaverse, are we Ready?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Applying the Metaverse, are we Ready?

Considerable piece. We experimented with the basic idea, and am skeptical  we are ready for it.  But deserves some realistic testsApplying the Metaverse  By Keith...

Measuring Productivity in a Hybrid-Work Environment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring Productivity in a Hybrid-Work Environment

Measuring Hybrid Work. No More Butts in Seats? Measuring Productivity in a Hybrid-Work Environment. From APQCProductivity is an enduring hot topic among macro-economics...

Volvo to Install Lidar Sensors on All New Cars
From The Eponymous Pickle

Volvo to Install Lidar Sensors on All New Cars

 Good idea to get additional operational testing of Lidar in an entire fleet. ACM TECHNEWSVolvo to Install Laser Sensors on New CarsBy Financial Times, September...

Improving Access to Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Improving Access to Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Unusual approach using game theory Improving Access to Electric Vehicle Charging StationsNC State University NewsMatt Shipman, October 17, 2022North Carolina State...

Get Ready for an Exciting womENcourage 2023, in Norway!
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Get Ready for an Exciting womENcourage 2023, in Norway!

By Alexandra Patrascu, ACM-W Europe Communications Chair womENcourageTM 2022 was held in Larnaca, at the University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus (UCLan Cyprus)...

Nominate an ACM-W Rising Star for an Award Now
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Nominate an ACM-W Rising Star for an Award Now

The ACM-W Rising Star Award recognizes a woman whose early-career research has had a significant impact on the computing discipline, as measured by factors such...
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