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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
AI Security Risk Assessment Tool
Microsoft researchers just released an open-source automation tool for security testing AI systems: “Counterfit.” Details on their blog.
From insideHPC
AI Demand Pushes against Skills Shortage, Lack of IT Infrastructure – IBM
As with other areas of the economy (chips, workforce), demand isn’t the problem in the AI market, it’s supply: supply of knowledge and skills, and supply of technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bruce Schneier: Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival
Just now reading a review copy of Bruce Schneier's: "Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World" His latest security book...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ransomware on US Pipeline Infrastructure
Example of very large consequences for such an attack. Threats to such infrastructure must be prevented. Ransomware Attack Leads to Shutdown of Major U.S. Pipeline...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Work on COVID Virus Sensor
Considerable value if this works in practice.GE Scientists Developing Technology to Add COVID-19 Virus Detector to Your Mobile DeviceSensing Materials in GE Research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Codenet AI Translating Computer Languages
Certainly interesting, but how good, secure is the resulting translation?IBM's CodeNet dataset can teach AI to translate computer languages By A. Tarantola inAI...
From insideHPC
Winter Classic Student HPC Cluster Competition Closes with Awards and Rich Brueckner Scholarships
By Dan Olds The first annual Winter Classic Cluster came to a thrilling conclusion Friday afternoon with the Gala Awards Ceremony, hosted on Zoom. This was theWinter...
From insideHPC
Supermicro’s New Line of AMD EPYC-based Systems: Addressing HPC Needs across the Spectrum
Supermicro recently launched its A+ line of systems based on AMD’s new EPYC 7nm microprocessors – products that include servers, storage, GPU-optimized, SuperBlade...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting and Using Emotion in Language Interaction
Interesting ideas implied here, but not proven, We worked on two kinds of 'emotion' Detecting emotion in consumer reactions, then classifying and determining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI's for Art Forgery?
Some good points made here, in their current state these are not really even forgery-perfect. But they could be. And not to say they could not do other kinds...
From insideHPC
Altair One Cloud Platform Built for Collaborative Design & Development
Modeling-simulation software vendor Altair today announced GA of new features in Altair One, an integrated platform combining the company’s entire product suite...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Seeking Nominations for the Inaugural IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal
Last year the IEEE announced the creation of the IEEE Frances E Allen medal, recognizing the contributions of Frances “Fran” E. Allen as an American computer scientist...
From insideHPC
Kao Data Hosts Civo’s OCP-Ready Kubernetes Cloud Platform
London, May 10, 2021 — Kao Data, operator of advanced, carrier neutral data centres for high performance colocation, today announced a new customer in Civo, a flexible...
From Schneier on Security
Ransomware Shuts Down US Pipeline
This is a major story: a probably Russian cybercrime group called DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline in a ransomware attack. The pipeline supplies much of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Trees and Random forests
This is fundamental stuff, that every practitioner should know well. Its the simplest way that machines can be made to learn. And provides a good way to deliver...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarm Robotics
A space we touched on very early ... even before many robots were involved! But you could see the sensors and 'actors' were needed very quickly. Had an element...
From insideHPC
Lustre User Group Virtual Event Hosted by OpenSFS and the Univ. of Florida May 19-20
BEAVERTON, Ore., — Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS), the non-profit advancing the Lustre file system community, has announced plans for the virtual 2021 Lustre...
From Yoshua Bengio
When Maximizing Individual Interests Can Make Us All Lose (usually some losing more than others)
Many experts, but not enough people, are well aware that markets can fail to achieve the goal of maximizing long-term wealth, and indeed they do… L’article When...
From Schneier on Security
Newly Unclassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s
This is a newly unclassified NSA history of its reaction to academic cryptography in the 1970s: “New Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography...
From Computational Complexity