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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 insideHPC
Quantum Acquires Digital Asset Management Specialist Square Box Systems
San Jose, — Dec. 14, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced it has acquired Square Box Systems Ltd, a specialist in data cataloging, user collaboration...
From Schneier on Security
US Schools Are Buying Cell Phone Unlocking Systems
Gizmodo is reporting that schools in the US are buying equipment to unlock cell phones from companies like Cellebrite: Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents...
From Schneier on Security
Mexican Drug Cartels with High-Tech Spyware
Sophisticated spyware, sold by surveillance tech companies to Mexican government agencies, are ending up in the hands of drug cartels: As many as 25 private companies...
From Schneier on Security
Zodiac Killer Cipher Solved
The SF Chronicle is reporting (more details here), and the FBI is confirming, that a Melbourne mathematician and team has decrypted the 1969 message sent by the...
From Schneier on Security
Another Massive Russian Hack of US Government Networks
The press is reporting a massive hack of US government networks by sophisticated Russian hackers. Officials said a hunt was on to determine if other parts of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Launches Live Translation for Alexa
In the enterprise we looked at efficient ways to translate consumer comments. Just tried the Alexa real-time translation mode in German - English. Is now on...
From Schneier on Security
Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
Persuasion is as old as our species. Both democracy and the market economy depend on it. Politicians persuade citizens to vote for them, or to support different...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quest for More Common Sense: Less Thinking?
Nicely put piece that connects with the current state of the technology. And shows some of the challenges. Have been involved in a number of attempts at including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Autonomous Robo Taxi
Have never thought of Amazon in the autonomous vehicle space. But here a reminder of an effort, apparently aimed at taxi service.Amazon's Zoox shows off itsThe...
From insideHPC
AccelerComm Joins The O-RAN Alliance for Interoperability and Spectral Efficiency for Open 5G Networks
Southampton, UK – 14 December 2020: AccelerComm, the 5G spectrum efficiency IP specialist, today announced that it has joined The O-RAN ALLIANCE, an industry association...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search Not Completely Solved in Context
Indeed it works very well. But we all experience examples where it falls flat. Often because it does not know the context of its use. We cheerfully act as the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating IOT Programming
Automation should in particular address issues of securityTool Will Automate Device Programming in the IOTUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)By Augustín López...
From insideHPC
Building an Exascale-Class Data Center for ORNL’s Incoming Frontier Supercomputer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following today, an update by staff science writer Coury Turczyn, on progress made in the construction of a data center...
From insideHPC
Telechips Picks Arm IP for Automotive SoC
Cambridge, UK – December 14, 2020 – Arm today announced that Telechips, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in automotive applications, has selected aTelechips...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Dreidel Game–A Chanukah Programming Project
If you’re anything like me, you like to assign projects that have some relationship to what is going on in the world. Holidays are one such thing. December brings...
From insideHPC
University of Stuttgart’s Hawk HPC System to Go CPU-GPU for Deep Learning Workloads
Add the High Performance Computing Center at the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) to the list of supercomputing organizations going from CPU-only to CPU-GPU architectures...
From insideHPC
Deep Learning GPU Cluster
In this whitepaper, "Deep Learning GPU Cluster," our friends over at Lambda walk you through the Lambda Echelon multi-node cluster reference design: a node design...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (online) at Western Washington University on January 20, 2021. Details to come. I...
From Schneier on Security
Authentication Failure
This is a weird story of a building owner commissioning an artist to paint a mural on the side of his building — except that he wasn’t actually the building’s owner...
From The Eponymous Pickle