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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
Ransomware Profitability
Analyzing cryptocurrency data, a research group has estimated a lower-bound on 2020 ransomware revenue: $350 million, four times more than in 2019. Based on the...
From Schneier on Security
SonicWall Zero-Day
Hackers are exploiting zero-day in SonicWall: In an email, an NCC Group spokeswoman wrote: “Our team has observed signs of an attempted exploitation of a vulnerabilitythat...
From Schneier on Security
Web Credit Card Skimmer Steals Data from Another Credit Card Skimmer
MalwareBytes is reporting a weird software credit card skimmer. It harvests credit card data stolen by another, different skimmer: Even though spotting multiple...
From Schneier on Security
NoxPlayer Android Emulator Supply-Chain Attack
It seems to be the season of sophisticated supply-chain attacks. This one is in the NoxPlayer Android emulator: ESET says that based on evidence its researchers...
From Schneier on Security
Presidential Cybersecurity and Pelotons
President Biden wants his Peloton in the White House. For those who have missed the hype, it’s an Internet-connected stationary bicycle. It has a screen, a camera...
From Schneier on Security
Another SolarWinds Orion Hack
At the same time the Russians were using a backdoored SolarWinds update to attack networks worldwide, another threat actor — believed to be Chinese in origin —penetrate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Releases Speech Services
Useful capability for speech production from Azure/AIMicrosoft opens limited access to its neural text-to-speech AI in EngadgetAT&T and Warner Bros. used the tech...
From insideHPC
Things to Know When Assessing, Piloting, and Deploying GPUs – Part 3
In this insideHPC Guide, our friends over at WEKA suggest that when organizations decide to move existing applications or new applications to a GPU-influenced system...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Counting Google Searches for Boredom and Loneliness
Whew, most interesting ... or a more general privacy invasion that can be leveraged?How Google Searches Reveal the Hidden Cost of LockdownUniversity of WarwickResearchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Work From Anywhere Here to Stay
Mentioned this previously, Irving Wladawsky provides more links and backgrounds.Is Work-from-Anywhere Here to Stay? (many links in the below are shown by clicking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Solarwinds Malware
Schneier provides more 'Solarwinds' News this morning, lots of links to other analyses and opinions. Including some suggestions for addressing these kinds of threats...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Vehicles as Criminal Drug Mules
I recall this coming up in innovation meetings a number of years ago. And of course the vehicles involved will be automatically tracked and usage charged to someone...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Listen to the AAAS Sci-Mic Podcasts including the CCC’s Catalyzing Computing
Every February, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and the publisher of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rearchers Can Now Achieve 'Quantum Advantage'
Intriguing claim. Based on my knowledge of quantum physics this may lead to some very counter intuitive results. Especially for 'combinatorial', or many-many...
From insideHPC
Object Management Group Adopts Open Architecture Radar Interface Standard (OARIS) 2.0 Spec
Boston – Feb. 3, 2021 – Today, international technology standards organization Object Management Group (OMG) announced the Open Architecture Radar Interface Standard...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL: Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US)
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information...
From insideHPC
Thierry Pellegrino, VP/GM of HPC at Dell Technologies, Stepping Down
Dell Technologies HPC senior executive Thierry Pellegrino has announced he is leaving the company. Pellegrino, whose complete title is Vice President WorkloadsThierry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GameStop and Retail
Interesting points made with commentary. Agree its mostly about the ability to manipulate stocks in general. Does not seem to have a broader retail effect. What...
From insideHPC
Vayyar 4D Imaging Radar Platform: In-cabin Safety Technology for Multifunctionality on a Chip
Tel Avid – February 2, 2021 – Vayyar, maker of 4D imaging radar, is advancing its mission with the auto industry’s first in-cabin safety ‘combo’ solution. Powered...
From The Eponymous Pickle