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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
AI as Co-Pilot
More on Microsoft's plans to use emerging AI chat capabilities. Further updatesACM NEWSAI as Co-Pilot: Your Online Life Is About to Change, Like It or Not ByIn...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Is a Blockchain Thingy
I had no idea—until I read this incredibly jargon-filled article: Squid is a cross-chain liquidity and messaging router that swaps across multiple chains and their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Undersea Data Pacific Cable Project Halted
Global cooperation halted. Facebook halts project for undersea data cable to Hong Kong over US-China tensions In HongKong Free PressThe Hong Kong landing station...
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Digital Twin for Intense Weather
Interesting and clever approach, if there is enough detail in the model being used. How much is required for the purpose? ACM TECHNEWSDigital Twin for IntenseBy...
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Weaponizing Starlink?
At what point is something directly weaponized? In support of military activity?SpaceX curbed Ukraine's use of Starlink internet for drones -company president...
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A 3-D Printing Factory
More scaled, efficient operations? You Know What's Cool? A 3D-Printing Factory, By Bloomberg, February 9, 2023Freeform Future co-founder and CEO Erik Palitsch...
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Darpa Quantum Computing
A look at how Quantum is seen by DarpaDARPA's Quantum Computing is Powered by ..FOMO - (Fear of Missing Out) 'Strategic Surprise'By The Register. February 2,Under...
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Digital Foot Could Enhance Neuroprosthetics
Improved digital devices and directions. Note also linking brain to prosthetics. ACM TECHNEWSDigital Foot Could Enhance NeuroprostheticsBy The Engineer, February...
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Japan Geopolitics, Satellites
Rand looks at their changing defence structure, Implications in the region. Japan's Long-Awaited Return to GeopoliticsCOMMENTARY (Foreign Policy)Japan's Prime...
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Piloting Drones Reliably
Increasing useful control. Piloting Drone Reliably with Mobile CommunicationsResearch News / February 01, 2023Drones are operating increasingly in areas out of...
From insideHPC
Deutsche Börse Partners with Google Cloud
Deutsche Börse and Google Cloud have today announced a strategic partnership designed to enhance, economize and concentrate Deutsche Börse’s cloud adoption. Specifically...
From insideHPC
TSMC January 2023 Revenue Up 16.2% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Feb. 10, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for January 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for January...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking the Tax Code
The tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input—financial information for the year...
From insideHPC
SEEQC and BASF to Explore Quantum Computing in Chemical Reactions for Industrial Use
ELMSFORD, N.Y., Feb. 9, 2023 — SEEQC, the digital quantum computing company, and chemical company BASF today announced a partnership to explore the applicationSEEQC...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former Council Member Melanie Mitchell on Detecting AI Generated Text
AI generative models have recently taken the world by storm creating digital art, music and prose. Among these innovations is a new language model called ChatGPT...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value and Emergence of Space Robotics
Lots to learn here, using robotics in constrained and specific contexts. ACM NEWSSpace Robots Prepare to Grapple and Repair Satellites in OrbitFebruary 9, 2023...
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The Premature Obituary of Programming
Much yet to do here, but I would expect this would ultimately take over many such capabilities. Especially when integrated with automated testing for threatThe...
From insideHPC
HPCNow! Announces HPC Cluster Monitoring Offering
Barcelona, February 8th 2023 – HPCNow! has announced a real-time HPC cluster monitoring capability. The monitoring stack includes open-source solutions such asHPCNow...
From Computational Complexity
Why Can't Little Chatty Do Math?
Despite OpenAI's claim that ChatGPT has improved mathematical capabilities, we don't get far multiplying large numbers.Typical for ChatGPT, the answer passes the...
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