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Cloud Computing Under Attack
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cloud Computing Under Attack

Thoughts on vulnerability of the cloud. Russia’s Hacking Success Shows How Vulnerable the Cloud IsThe cloud is everywhere. It’s critical to computing. And it’sBy...

Stealing Xbox Codes
From Schneier on Security

Stealing Xbox Codes

Detailed story of Volodymyr Kvashuk, a Microsoft insider who noticed a bug in the company’s internal systems that allowed him to create unlimited Xbox gift cards...

Channeling the Inner Voice of Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Channeling the Inner Voice of Robots

Like consciousness or a cognitive infrastructure that feeds into our decisions and broad behavior like a consciousness?     If it produces better measure of decisions...

What is Slam?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What is Slam?

Below just an outline, but something I am investigating,  detail the link.The definitive guide to SLAM & mobile mappingSLAM 101   ....  How does SLAM work  .......

Mondelez Does Low-Code, No-Code Development
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mondelez Does Low-Code, No-Code Development

I think this is ultimately the approach we will be taking.   Not quite here yet, but it will be too risky to have individual developers do most coding work. Mondelez...

FBI Running  Encrypted Phones
From The Eponymous Pickle

FBI Running Encrypted Phones

Bruce Schneier posted about the FBI effort to create an encrypted phone App.  And makes interesting points about trust and security.    Just read, worth considering...

AI Taking Over Gadgets
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Taking Over Gadgets

Now lets make them as secure as possible.    And the AI does not have to be created on the edge, it can  be encrypted and fed to devices.    We will see both.  ...

Reimplementing Software Interfaces is Fair Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reimplementing Software Interfaces is Fair Use

 Somewhat surprising,  and Beyond the US?   Good overview of the technical implications.Reimplementing Software Interfaces Is Fair UseBy Pamela Samuelson  Communications...

A Battery Free Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Battery Free Internet of Things

 A look at current state and technology advances and likely futures.   We looked at these for RFID identification applications.  Implications for applications,A...

Opportunities and Dangers of Decentralizing Finance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Opportunities and Dangers of Decentralizing Finance

Useful definitions and opinions on the state and future of what is being called DeFi.  Much on the Podcast and text below at the link.The Opportunities and Dangers...

On Autodesk Tandem
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Autodesk Tandem

My continued look at Autodesk's Tandem Digital Twin Solution.  Look for more posts here on digital twins.DIGITAL TWIN FOR SMARTER OPERATIONSAutodesk TandemAutodesk...

Magnetic Memory System for AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Magnetic Memory System for AI

Seems a memory device meant for learning from data  in AI system.  Faster it implies.A More Robust Memory Device for AI SystemsBy Northwestern University McCormick...

Home Networking by Radar
From The Eponymous Pickle

Home Networking by Radar

Interesting.   Security?  Might this kind location could be combined with other kind of location and movement information?  Home networking by radarOmniConnectResearch...

Next Wave of Computing Innovation will be Driven by Crypto
From The Eponymous Pickle

Next Wave of Computing Innovation will be Driven by Crypto

 Andreessen Says it will all be about CryptoAndreessen Horowitz  A16zCrypto Fund III  by Chris Dixon, Katie Haun, and Ali Yahyacryptocurrencies & blockchains  a16z...

Turing Lecture on Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turing Lecture on Deep Learning

 Quite good, relatively non technical.   Worth a look.Turing LectureDeep Learning for AIBy Yoshua Bengio, Yann Lecun, Geoffrey Hinton    from ACMCommunicationsYoshua...

Matterport for Creating 3D Virtual Tours
From The Eponymous Pickle

Matterport for Creating 3D Virtual Tours

Had mentioned I was looking at simplified Lidar Solutions.  Here just mentioner to me:  Matterport. Below shows some of the technology supported.  Examining this...

DDN Selected by Bytesnet to Provide Differentiated and Customizable ‘Pay-Per-Use’ Storage Services for Data-Intensive Organizations
From insideHPC

DDN Selected by Bytesnet to Provide Differentiated and Customizable ‘Pay-Per-Use’ Storage Services for Data-Intensive Organizations

 CHATSWORTH, Calif. – June 30, 2021 – DDN, an artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management company, today announced Bytesnet, a Dutch service provider...

ALCF Computing Time Awarded to 16 projects
From insideHPC

ALCF Computing Time Awarded to 16 projects

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) has awarded 16 projects totaling 6.75ALCF...

PRACE Summer of HPC 2020 Award Ceremony at ISC
From insideHPC

PRACE Summer of HPC 2020 Award Ceremony at ISC

June 30, 2021 — Serge Bogaerts, PRACE Managing Director, announced the PRACE Summer of HPC Awards 2020 to Antonios-Kyrillos Chatzimichail, Igor Abramov, and Josip...

AI still sucks at moderating hate speech
From Putting People First

AI still sucks at moderating hate speech

But scientists are getting better at measuring where each system fails.
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