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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Get Ready for womENcourage™ 2023: Europe Gears Up to Celebrate Women in Computing
The 10th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage™ 2023 will be hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Celebrating Technology Leaders Episode 13: Inspiring Women of DevOps
In episode 13 of “ACM-W Celebrating Technology Leaders,” our host, Bushra Anjum, spoke with three technologists with successful DevOps careers to learn from their...
From Schneier on Security
Parmesan Anti-Forgery Protection
The Guardian is reporting about microchips in wheels of Parmesan cheese as an anti-forgery measure.
From insideHPC
VMware and NVIDIA Partner on Generative AI for Enterprises
August 22, 2023 — VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced the expansion of their partnership with a focus on generative AI. The companies...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Solicitation – Research Security and Integrity Information Sharing Analysis Organization
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through the Office of the Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy (OCRSSP), is seeking to establish an independent...
From Schneier on Security
Applying AI to License Plate Surveillance
License plate scanners aren’t new. Neither is using them for bulk surveillance. What’s new is that AI is being used on the data, identifying “suspicious” vehicle...
From insideHPC
Harvard Uses Google Cloud to Clone Supercomputer for Medical Research Runs
A Harvard scientist used Google Cloud Platform compute resources to construct an HPC clone to conduct heart disease study, according to a Reuters story, “a novel...
From Computational Complexity
Why I have some sympathy for the Simulation Theory (We are all characters in a video game.)
There are some people who believe that we are all characters in a video game written by Abisola (this is sometimes called The Simulation Hypothesis). I first dismissed...
From insideHPC
Ikigai Labs Raises $25M to Bring Generative AI for Tabular Data
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24, 2023 -- Ikigai Labs, a company focused on generative AI for tabular data, today announced $25M of new capital by Premji Invest with participation...
From Schneier on Security
White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge
At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports: The new AI cyber challenge (which is being abbreviated “AIxCC”) will have...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
How far can you hear? Modelling distant birdsong.
by Dan Stowell, Queen Mary University of London How do we know how many birds there are out there: in the countryside, and in the city? Usually, it’s because people...
From Geeking with Greg
AI letter signers not worried about doomsday AI
An article in Wired, "A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren't Actually AI Doomers": A significant number of those who signed were, it seems...
From Geeking with Greg
Challenges using LLMs for startups
Someone (not an AI expert) was asking me about applying large language models (LLMs, like ChatGPT) to a particular product. In case it's useful to others, here's...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brand Fish Sauce
Squid Brand is a Thai company that makes fish sauce: It is part of Squid Brand’s range of “personalized healthy fish sauces” that cater to different consumer groups...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512
Though most strings online today follow the Unicode standard (e.g., using UTF-8), the Latin 1 standard is still in widespread inside some systems (such as browsers)...
From Schneier on Security
Bots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
Interesting research: “An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs“: Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection...
From insideHPC
ADLINK Announces COM-HPC Module
SAN JOSE, Aug. 15, 2023 — The ADLINK COM-HPC-cRLS Client type Size C module based on 13th Gen Intel Core processor is available for order with: o up to 13th...
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $16M for Particle Accelerator Research
Aug. 17, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for research projects in particle accelerator science and technology. Total...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting “Violations of Social Norms” in Text with AI
Researchers are trying to use AI to detect “social norms violations.” Feels a little sketchy right now, but this is the sort of thing that AIs will get better at...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog