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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 Competent to take on Darkside?
How many times have we seen the FBI and other US intelligence capabilities portrayed as deftly taking on our enemies. Now finally here is a really hard test for...
From Computational Complexity
Cryptocurrency, Blockchains and NFTs
I first wrote about bitcoin in this blog ten years ago after I gave a lecture in a cryptography class I taught at Northwestern. Two years later I had a follow-up...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Shoe for the Blind
Perhaps unusual means of protection for the sight impaired. 'Intelligent' Shoe Helps Blind People Avoid ObstaclesThe Daily Mail (U.K.), Jonathan Chadwick, May 5...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Threat explanation: Supply Chain Attacks
I learned this relatively recently, good explanation. Threat Explainer: Supply Chain Attacks, By Ben Nahorney, CiscoLet’s say that you’re confident in yourThese...
From insideHPC
AMD EPYC Processors to Power System for National Supercomputing Centre Singapore
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors will be used to power a new supercomputer for the National Supercomputing...
From insideHPC
CINECA and D-Wave Expand Access to Quantum Computing in Italy
BOLOGNA, ITALY and BURNABY, BC, May 11, 2021 – CINECA, the Italian inter-university consortium and supercomputing center, and D-Wave Systems Inc., the quantum computing...
From insideHPC
ThinkParQ Names Advanced Clustering Technologies Platinum Partner
Kaiserslautern Germany, May 11, 2021 – ThinkParQ, the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS, announced today the advancement of its partner in the United...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Releases Counterfit. A Tool for Security Testing AI Systems
Below an outline of purpose, worth a look.AI Security risk Assessment using CounterfitWill Pearce AI Red Team Lead, Azure Trustworthy ML, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: The Power of Mental Models
Podcast Brought to my Attention. Does more data mean better decisions? Or is it how we use/frame the data? Framing decisions rather than using decisions. New...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Modular Building Platform for the Most Ingenious of Robots
Hmm, musing the use of this.A Modular Building Platform for the Most Ingenious of RobotsMax Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Germany), April 29, 2021Scientists...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
The Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship is a global program that identifies and empowers the next generation of exceptional computing research talent. “Microsoft...
From insideHPC
What’s Needed for High-Fidelity, Low-Latency HPC Network Monitoring at 100Gbps
By Vince Hill, cPacket Networks Enterprise migration to 100Gbps network speeds continues to accelerate, with high-performance computing (HPC) data centers leading...
From Schneier on Security
Book Sale: Beyond Fear
I have 80 copies of my 2000 book Beyond Fear available at the very cheap price of $5 plus shipping. Note that there is a 20% chance that your book will have a “BT...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uncrackable Invisible Ink?
Stuck me, since some of my earliest looks at code were in this realm. Steganographic or hidden information. Not combine it with AI based methods? An Uncrackable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New, Faster IBM Chips
IBM pushes further on speed.IBM Unveils Two-Nanometer Chip Technology for Faster ComputingReuters, Stephen NellisIBM has unveiled what it is calling the world's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ghosts Using Data, Children too
Hmm, can tell you that in any business problem you have to have the correct data to derive something useful. To walk away with some sort of algorithm that later...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM CEO Speaks on Future of AI
Will depend too on the definition and applicability of AI in context. IBM CEO: Every business is going to adopt AIArvind Krishna, CEO of IBM, compares Artificial...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m keynoting the (all-virtual) RSA Conference 2021, May 17-20, 2021. I’m keynoting the 5th International...
From insideHPC
Germany Launches €2B, 5-year Quantum Development Push
Germany plans to invest roughly €2 billion euros (US$2.4B) through 2025 on R&D for its first quantum computer and support technologies, the German economy and science...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog