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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 Schneier on Security
Zoom Lied about End-to-End Encryption
The facts aren’t news, but Zoom will pay $85M — to the class-action attorneys, and to users — for lying to users about end-to-end encryption, and for giving user...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Cyber Risk in Digital Transformation
Its not brought up enough as a key part of the transformation effort. It is essential as threats enlarge. What do you have if the attackers get control? Cyber...
From insideHPC
Univ. of Cambridge Wilkes-3 Is No. 3 on Latest Green500 for Energy-efficient HPC
Twice a year, the TOP500 project releases a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. This Green500 list parallels the better-known TOP500...
From insideHPC
Ken Kennedy AI & Data Science Conference, Oct. 25-27: Call for Participation, Program Announced
The 2021 Ken Kennedy AI and Data Science Conference is scheduled for October 25-27. Visit ai-datascience.rice.edu for more details. The conference will kick off...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use of Chat in Meetings
Always thought better use of chat in meetings would be useful, perhaps a means of asking questions of participants by an advisor? Invocation of humor? Microsoft...
From insideHPC
TACC Joins NSF-Funded Icicle Institute for AI Research
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced today that it is a partner in the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded...
From insideHPC
Add UK to Nvidia-Arm Acquisition Snags
On the heels of potential regulatory problems in China and Europe for Nvidia’s planned Arm acquisition, another press report, from Bloomberg, states that UK regulators...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Fines for Amazon Under GDPR
Good to know the implications of the EU GDPR. Note how Amazon sees the gathering of customer data. On to the EU court.EU Fines Amazon Record $888 Million Over ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blackmatter Interview
I see that the Podcast 'Security Now' has now published the 'Blackmatter' interview with the Recorded Future company. We did some work with Recorded Future at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power Shift to Employees?
Have seen some examples of this lately. Tech Pay Survey Shows Power Shift to Employees By The Information, July 23, 2021The technology-business boom is giving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Test of a European Space Brain
Are we extending to the stars? First Test of Europe's Space BrainEuropean Space Agency, in CACM, July 28, 2021The European Space Agency (ESA) operated a spacecraft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reprogrammable Satellite Launched, is it Hackable?
Had know about this for a while. 'Reprogrammable' Satellite the European Space Agency said. I also saw a number of the big time security wags were quick to call...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program Webinar
NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is providing information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program...
From insideHPC
IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate on AI-Driven Monitoring Solutions
ARMONK, N.Y. and OVERLAND PARK, Kan., August 3, 2021 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Black & Veatch today announced a collaboration to jointly market Asset Performance Management...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you pipe a large file to a C++ program?
Under many operating systems, you can send data from from one process to another using ‘pipes’. The term ‘pipe’ is probably used by analogy with plumbing and we...
From insideHPC
Nvidia’s Arm Acquisition May Be Hitting Snags in China, Europe
Tea leaf reading regarding Chinese regulators’ decision on Nvidia’s intended takeover of Arm may have taken a negative — or at least a time consuming — turn. ANvidia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Update on Smart Speaker Use
Follow this at Voicebot.aiThere is always a question about whether a popular consumer electronic device will be just a fad or become a lasting fixture of daily...
From insideHPC
Former IBM Research AI Scientist, Dr. Zoltán Tüske, to Join AppTek
McLEAN, Va., Aug. 3, 2021 — AppTek, a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automatic speech recognition (ASR), neural machine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate
Notable collaboration on AI asset monitoring maintenance and digital twins.IBM and Black & Veatch Collaborate on AI-Driven Monitoring SolutionsPublish date: Tuesday...
From insideHPC