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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
Omnichannel Search Using AI
Brought to my attention, they link to an e-book they offer. Note the below is ad. I am unconnected, have not tried this, but the thoughts and offer looked interesting...
From insideHPC
Google Microsoft and Qualcomm Protest Nvidia-Arm Acquisition
On the heels of an announcement by Arm Holdings yesterday that its silicon partners in the third quarter of 2020 shipped 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, news stories...
From insideHPC
The Quantum Comprehension Gap and the Emergence of Quantum Ethics
Though years from potential fruition, quantum computing and its control has emerged as an issue among technology ethicists. But if a YouTube video released last...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Member Kevin Fu Appointed as FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has appointed Former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting COVID Spikes
Hmm, caution with such causal seeming predictions. But interesting. Google Search Can Help Predict Covid-19 Spikes The Jerusalem Post, Zachary Keyser, February...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standardizing Robot Operating Systems
Just because they use the same software does not mean they will 'get along'. Still the use of software that can communicate will make them easier to update and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Manufacturing Marketplace
Intriguing play here, will look into more details... pass them along and I will post an overview.Fetch.ai partners with FESTO on decentralised manufacturing marketplace...
From Schneier on Security
Browser Tracking Using Favicons
Interesting research on persistent web tracking using favicons. (For those who don’t know, favicons are those tiny icons that appear in browser tabs next to the...
From Schneier on Security
Virginia Data Privacy Law
Virginia is about to get a data privacy law, modeled on California’s law.
From Schneier on Security
WEIS 2021 Call for Papers
The 20th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2021) will be held online in June. We just published the call for papers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Network Has Learned to Identify Tree Species
Relates to my forestry work, could have been used to update inventories of species.Neural Network Has Learned to Identify Tree SpeciesBy Skolkovo Institute ofAn...
From Schneier on Security
Malicious Barcode Scanner App
Interesting story about a barcode scanner app that has been pushing malware on to Android phones. The app is called Barcode Scanner. It’s been around since 2017...
From Schneier on Security
Deliberately Playing Copyrighted Music to Avoid Being Live-Streamed
Vice is reporting on a new police hack: playing copyrighted music when being filmed by citizens, trying to provoke social media sites into taking the videos down...
From Schneier on Security
On Vulnerability-Adjacent Vulnerabilities
At the virtual Engima Conference, Google’s Project Zero’s Maggie Stone gave a talk about zero-day exploits in the wild. In it, she talked about how often vendors...
From insideHPC
New EU Consortium Awarded €12.4M by the German Ministry of Education and Research
Feb. 12, 2021 – Today, IQM announced a quantum project consortium that includes Europe’s leading startups (ParityQC, IQM), industry leaders (Infineon Technologies)...
From insideHPC
Altran Collaborates With Ciena’s Blue Planet Division on Virtualization and Orchestration for 5G
New York – February 12, 2021 – Altran, part of Capgemini, and Blue Planet, a division of Ciena, today announced a collaboration to provide network operators with...
From insideHPC
Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Puts NEC SX-Aurora Tsubasa Supercomputer into Operation
Tokyo, February 12, 2021 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) put an NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA supercomputer...
From insideHPC
CHIPS Alliance Adds Antmicro and VeriSilicon
San Francisco, Feb. 11, 2021 – CHIPS Alliance, a consortium advancing common and open hardware for interfaces, processors and systems, has added Antmicro and VeriSilicon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Scene Understanding
Intelligence allows us to quickly understand our world, here a good example, our visual world, based on sensors. To establish context we can depend on. Many...
From The Eponymous Pickle