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Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records
From Schneier on Security

Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records

Interesting forensics in connection with a serial killer arrest: Investigators went through phone records collected from both midtown Manhattan and the Massapequa...

From Computational Complexity

Finding and answer to a math question: 1983 vs 2023.

In 1983, as a grad student, I knew that HALT \( \le_T \) KOLG but didn't know how to prove it. I asked around and A MONTH later through a series of connectionshere...

Cyber Security at the movies: Rogue one (Part I: Physical Security)
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Cyber Security at the movies: Rogue one (Part I: Physical Security)

In a galaxy far, far away cyber security matters quite a lot. So much so, in fact, that the whole film Rogue One is about it. The plot is all about the bad guys...

Science and Technology links (July 16 2023)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (July 16 2023)

Most people think that they are more intelligent than average. Lack of vitamin C may damage the arteries. Make sure you have enough! A difficult problem in software...

NASA Wants Spaceships to Communicate With Astronauts Via Chatbot
From The Eponymous Pickle

NASA Wants Spaceships to Communicate With Astronauts Via Chatbot

Want to see the details of implementation of data integration hwew.NASA Wants Spaceships to Communicate With Astronauts Via ChatbotThe agency's proprietary program...

Train Your AI Model Once and Deploy on Any Cloud with NVIDIA and Run:ai
From The Eponymous Pickle

Train Your AI Model Once and Deploy on Any Cloud with NVIDIA and Run:ai

Started a first new and realistic application.Train Your AI Model Once and Deploy on Any Cloud with NVIDIA and Run:aiJul 07, 2023,  By Guy Salton and Abhishek Sawarkar...

The Black Mirror plot about AI that worries actors
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Black Mirror plot about AI that worries actors

 Notable, reviwing the script implications.The Black Mirror plot about AI that worries actorsSAG strike 2023    By Shiona McCallum    BBC Technology reporterHollywood...

AI Robots as Future Role for Care Homes
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Robots as Future Role for Care Homes

 AI Robots Could Play Future Role as Companions in Care HomesBy Reuters, July 13, 2023The humanoid robot Nadine.The humanoid robot Nadine told reporters, "I believe...

U.S. and E.U. Complete Long-Awaited Deal on Sharing Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

U.S. and E.U. Complete Long-Awaited Deal on Sharing Data

Good Direction.? U.S. and E.U. Complete Long-Awaited Deal on Sharing DataBy The New York Times, July 11, 2023Credit: Ksenia Kuleshova/The New York TimesA deal to...

EU Looks to Take Lead in Metaverse World, Avoid Big Tech Dominance
From The Eponymous Pickle

EU Looks to Take Lead in Metaverse World, Avoid Big Tech Dominance

EU Wants to take on the Metaverse, never saw them as interested, look forward to see what they want to do.  Shaped on  'EU digital rights and principles'   Specific...

Friday Squid Blogging: Balloon Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Balloon Squid

Masayoshi Matsumoto is a “master balloon artist,” and he made a squid (and other animals). As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...

Quantum Delta NL SME Call Awards €4.7M to 6 Dutch Companies
From insideHPC

Quantum Delta NL SME Call Awards €4.7M to 6 Dutch Companies

DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS, 14 July 2023 — Quantum Delta NL revealed the recipients of the second ‘Quantum SME call’. The call, amounting to a total of 4.73 million...

OLCF and Stony Brook: Using HPC Simulations to Learn How Cicada Wings Kill Bacteria
From insideHPC

OLCF and Stony Brook: Using HPC Simulations to Learn How Cicada Wings Kill Bacteria

Over the past decade, teams of engineers, chemists and biologists have analyzed the physical and chemical properties of cicada wings, hoping to unlock the secret...

Cracking Down on Dissent, Russia Seeds a Surveillance Supply Chain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cracking Down on Dissent, Russia Seeds a Surveillance Supply Chain

Fascinating term:  Supply Chain, used in this contextACM TECHNEWSCracking Down on Dissent, Russia Seeds a Surveillance Supply ChainBy The New York Times, July 13...

Lasers Enable Internet Backbone via Sat
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lasers Enable Internet Backbone via Sat

 Full ArticleLasers Enable Internet Backbone via SatelliteETH Zurich (Switzerland), Daniel MeierhansJune 20, 2023Scientists at Switzerland's ETH Zurich, French...

AI Replaces Staff
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Replaces Staff

It starts.  Selectively expectedSuumit Shah, founder of an e-commerce website, said that his firm had laid off 90% of its support staff.An Indian CEO is being criticised...

AI Solutions from NVIDIA
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Solutions from NVIDIA

Some intriguing work by NVIDIANVIDIA | VMWAREhttps://youtu.be/Mu14EBJCI0IAI Solutions, Your path to an integrated AI experience begins here.GET STARTED:, Launch...

Buying Campaign Contributions as a Hack
From Schneier on Security

Buying Campaign Contributions as a Hack

The first Republican primary debate has a popularity threshold to determine who gets to appear: 40,000 individual contributors. Now there are a lot of conventional...

When a chatbot acts as your “trusted” agent …
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

When a chatbot acts as your “trusted” agent …

Artificial Intelligences are capable of acting as our agents freeing up our time, but can we trust them? Steve Phelps and his team run experiments with AIs as the...

Recognizing string prefixes with SIMD instructions
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Recognizing string prefixes with SIMD instructions

Suppose that I give you a long list of string tokens (e.g., “A”, “A6”, “AAAA”, “AFSDB”, “APL”, “CAA”, “CDS”, “CDNSKEY”, “CERT”, “CH”, “CNAME”, “CS”, “CSYNC”, “DHC...
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