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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 The Eponymous Pickle
FBI Classifies Ransomware
I mentioned the FBI recently, that given all all the resources we provide them, they should be able to 'solve', or at least make far less dangerous the curse of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security and Human Behavior
Currently much more involved in security issues of late. I see that Bruce Schneier is blogging and talking about the Security and Human Behavior conference in...
From insideHPC
US-China Tech Rivalry Takes 2 New HPC-Related Turns
Two new developments emerged this week in the US-China technology rivalry that have bearing on the HPC futures of the two superpowers. According to a Reuters story...
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of Silicon Valley as We Know it?
Just Saw Tim O'Reilly's column from March. Provocative thoughts. Good read. Been a person who dove into the valley in the 90s, working with the Institute for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Digital Trasformation
A long time follower of IKEA, both as a customer, and briefly interacting during our building innovation centers. Most notably in their use of VR approaches to...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squids in Space
NASA is sending baby bobtail squid into space. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Directional Smells, Virtual Odors, Stereo Smell
In our innovation enters we tried to enhance smell, but not usually directionally. It was expected that the people would determine changes in smell by their own...
From insideHPC
2021 iRODS User Group Meeting June 8-11
June 4, 2021 – The worldwide iRODS user community will connect online from June 8 – 11 for the 13th Annual iRODS User Group Meeting – four days of learning, sharing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Camera that Knows Where it is
Think of a camera as a means of adding information to a database about space.Bristol Researchers' Camera Knows Exactly Where It IsUniversity of Bristol News (U.K...
From The Noisy Channel
Putting Search Ranking in Perspective
For feeds and recommendations, ranking is critical. All the inputs are implicit, so machine-learned ranking is the only practical way to optimize engagement.Search...
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Opens Registration for HPC Market Update During ISC
St. Paul, MN, June 4, 2021 – Registration is now open for Hyperion Research’s annual HPC market update session to be held in conjunction with the ISC High Performance...
From Schneier on Security
The Supreme Court Narrowed the CFAA
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court just narrowed the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: In a ruling delivered today, the court sided with Van Buren and...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Giant Squid Hunting Prey
Fantastic video of a giant squid hunting at depths between 1,827 and 3,117 feet. This is a follow-on from this post. As usual, you can also use this squid posthere...
From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2021
Today is the second day of the fourteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. The University of Cambridge is the host, but we’re all on Zoom. SHB is a small...
From Computational Complexity
What happened to self-driving cars?
In 2014, I wrote a blog post about a fake company Elfdrive. With a near record-setting investment announced last week, the self-driving car service Elfdrive is...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computing the number of digits of an integer even faster
I my previous blog post, I documented how one might proceed to compute the number of digits of an integer quickly. E.g., given the integer 999, you want 3 but given...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Executive Director Job Description and Advertisement
Last week, we announced the retirement of Computing Research Association Executive Director Andrew Bernat. The description and advertisement for the Executive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will Amazon sell Marijuana?
Is this imminent? Certainly there will be negative publicity, regardless if it is fully legalized by congress. More generally cannabis? Is Amazon the likely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AWS Location Services
Notified of this capability.AWS announces general availability of Amazon Location ServicesBy Sage Lazzaro @SageLazzaro in VenturebeatAmazon Web Services (AWS)...
From The Eponymous Pickle