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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
xHelper Malware for Android
xHelper is not interesting because of its infection mechanism; the user has to side-load an app onto his phone. It's not interesting because of its payload; it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft's Hybrid Strategies
Good piece which support Mary J Foley's recent appearance on Twit:Microsoft's Hybrid 2.0 strategy: Azure Arc, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge explainedAt Ignite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TensorBoard for Free Testing of Machine Learning
Google announces a means to test for free machine learning experiments. Nite that the data used is pubklic and un-secured. Includes visualizations and operation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Inventory into Profits
Via McKinsey. Depending on the industry, demand for parts and costs involved.Turn Slow-Moving Inventory into Fast ProfitsFor industrial-services organizations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reducing Defects in Assistant Commands
We need much better interpretation of commands, in context. Alexa has failed in this from the beginning. Now word it will do much better? But can we greatly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Digital Identity
On capability long considered for blockchain was assuring identity. Just published draft guidance below. FATF Releases Guidance on Global Digital IDs as Use Cases...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HoloLens2 Available and Shipping Now
Considerable overview piece from Microsoft. They are now hooking it to a number of capabilities such as Dynamics and Azure driven Edge Computing. Impressive...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Lasers Can be Used to ‘Speak’ to Your Smart Assistant
Hackers can use lasers to silently “speak” to any computer that receives voice commands, these include smartphones, Amazon Echo speakers, Google Homes, and Facebook...
From insideHPC
IonQ Joins Azure Quantum Ecosystem
This week IonQ launched the new Azure Quantum ecosystem in partnership with Microsoft at the annual Ignite conference. Azure Quantum is a full-stack, open cloud...
From insideHPC
Lifebit Launches Federated Genomics Cloud Operating System for Accelerated Discovery
Lifebit CloudOS solves the major barrier faced by the genomics sector: data is often siloed and distributed, inaccessible for multiple parties to analyze. Without...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Tops MLPerf AI Inference Benchmarks
Today NVIDIA posted the fastest results on new benchmarks measuring the performance of AI inference workloads in data centers and at the edge — building on theNVIDIA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Estimating from Small samples
A common example we touched often on in consulting within the enterprise. Though the new methods have made this ever more crucial.Estimating from small random...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Full Rundown of SC19 Events in Denver
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the full list of events leading up to SC19 in Denver. "There's a lot that happens before the exhibit floor opens...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bixby Views and Touch
Saw Bixby early on, was not impressed. Is it now emerging? Touch it says will be included, which I did not see.Bixby Views is What Every Voice Developer Wants...
From insideHPC
Data Center Transformation: Why a Workload-Driven and Scalable Architecture Matters
In this new whitepaper from our friends over at QCT we take a look at the important topic of deep learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP) The post DatainsideHPC...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
AI-assisted Programming
As I said in yesterday’s blog post,Microsoft has been running their big MSIgnite event this week and making all sorts of announcements. One interesting announcement...
From Schneier on Security
Eavesdropping on SMS Messages inside Telco Networks
Fireeye reports on a Chinese-sponsored espionage effort to eavesdrop on text messages: FireEye Mandiant recently discovered a new malware family used by APT41 (a...
From Putting People First
User-Centred Design and Humanitarian Adaptiveness
User-Centred Design and Humanitarian Adaptiveness by Sofya Bourne ALNAP April 2019, 60 pages Gathering and acting on feedback from affected communities is a key...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brick and Mortar Making a Comeback
I have my doubts, but there will always be specialty examples, new kinds of channels.Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback in HBS Working KnowledgeLeft...
From The Eponymous Pickle