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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
NFT Plan Dropped
From the BBC, indicator of a bubble? NFT: Plans for Royal Mint produced token droppedPlans for the NFT for Britain were launched when Rishi Sunak was chancellor...
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Amazon To Go Head to Head with SpaceX
Satellite Internet DominanceACM NEWSAmazon To Go Head to Head with SpaceX in a Battle for Satellite Internet DominanceBy MIT Technology Review, March 27, 2023The...
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Wharton AI Powered Risk Radar and more
Wharton AI Powered Risk Radar" From BardWharton researchers have developed a new AI-powered tool to help businesses identify and mitigate risks. The tool, called...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in Snipping Tools
Both Google’s Pixel’s Markup Tool and the Windows Snipping Tool have vulnerabilities that allow people to partially recover content that was edited out of images...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Mood Gloves
When we watch a film, it's not just the pictures that make the experience, it's the soundtrack too. The music and sound effects play a big part in setting the mood...
From insideHPC
UK Researchers: Quantum Can Simulate Catalysts in Chemical Processes, Cut Environmental Impacts
Researchers from Riverlane quantum engineering company and sustainable technology company Johnson Matthey announced they have developed quantum algorithms to simulate...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
C++20: consteval and constexpr functions
Optimizing compilers seek try to push as much of the computation as possible at compile time. In modern C++, you can declare a function as ‘constexpr’, meaningContinue...
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Crewless Container Ships
Saw several example that indicated they were in test. Minimal crew still might add safety at low cost for a large ship? Crewless Container Ships Appear on theBy...
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Privacy Flaw in ChatGPT
Schneier reports on this, as usual his commenters provide thoughtful additional insight. Worh looking at.ChatGPT Privacy FlawOpenAI has disabled ChatGPT’s privacy...
From insideHPC
Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder and Semiconductor Pioneer, 94
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced that company co-founder Gordon Moore passed away on Friday, March...
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AI for Materials Discovery
New, lucrative and very interesting spaceArtificial Intelligence for Materials DiscoveryBy Don MonroeCommunications of the ACM, April 2023, Vol. 66 No. 4, Pages...
From insideHPC
HPE DoD Webinar April 27: Bringing Exascale HPC to the Masses
There will be an HPE DoD webinar on Thursday, April 27 from 2-3 pm ET entitled “Bringing Exascale to the Masses.” The speaker will be Steve Heibein, public sector...
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Plugins for ChatGPT use
Good piece on current Open ChatGPT Plugins, including the ability to join the waitlist for their use. ChatGPT plugins https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins We...
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Configurable Robots Can Be Mixed, Matched for Tasks in Space
Configurable Robots Can Be Mixed, Matched for Tasks in SpaceACM TECHNEWSBy Interesting EngineeringMarch 22, 2023The Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System could...
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Where Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?
VIEWPOINTWhere Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?By David Ott, Kenny Paterson, Dennis MoreauCommunications of the ACM, April 2023, Vol. 66...
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Towards Talking Concrete
Novel infrastructure idea.'Talking' Concrete Could Help Prevent Traffic Jams, Cut Carbon EmissionsBy Purdue University NewsMarch 16, 2023From beneath a concrete...
From Schneier on Security
Hacks at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023
An impressive array of hacks were demonstrated at the first day of the Pwn2Own conference in Vancouver: On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, security researchers...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
William Wulf, 1939–2023
A great teacher and a great leader Bill Wulf just passed away. We send our best thoughts to his dear wife Anita Jones and the rest of his family. He is greatly...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
What the real Pros say
Here is what some (female) computer scientists and electronic engineers said that they most liked about their job and the subject.
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