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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 Noisy Channel
Search and the Art of Conversation
What is the job of a search application? A common answer is that it needs to return the best results for a query, sorted in relevance order. While this answer sounds...
From Schneier on Security
New Research in Detecting AI-Generated Videos
The latest in what will be a continuing arms race between creating and detecting videos: The new tool the research project is unleashing on deepfakes, called “MISLnet...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Global Chapter Summit 2024
The inaugural ACM-W Global Chapter Summit 2024 took place on May 22, 2024. This virtual event provided a forum for global ACM-W chapters to meet. Participants could...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Evolution of iPhone storage capacity
People who should know better often underestimate how fast our storage capacity has grown. We have been able to get 1 TB of storage on iPhones for the last three...
From Computational Complexity
In the future we will all have songs written about us, and it will be Lance's fault.
In response to my blog post about how its easier to FIND novelty songs (and other things) than it used to be (see here) Lance showed how easy it is to CREATE ahere...
From Putting People First
Two reports on the current state of user research
Maze and User Interviews, both USA-based entities providing user research platforms and user panels, published reports in the last months on the current state of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Storage costs are plummeting
Storage costs are plummeting like a skydiver in freefall—between 10 and 100 times cheaper with each passing decade. Meanwhile, the programmer population is growing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How big are your docker images?
Docker is a standard to deploy software on the cloud. Developers start with an existing image and add their own code before deploying their systems. How big are...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How much of your binary executable is just ASCII text?
We sometimes use binary executable which can span megabytes. I wondered: how much text is contained in these binary files? To find out, I wrote a Python scriptContinue...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Sunscreen from Squid Pigments
They’re better for the environment. Blog moderation policy.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Fulkerson Prize
The Fulkerson prize is given to: outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics and is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS)...
From Schneier on Security
Compromising the Secure Boot Process
This isn’t good: On Thursday, researchers from security firm Binarly revealed that Secure Boot is completely compromised on more than 200 device models sold by...
From insideHPC
UK Commits £106M to 5 Quantum Hubs
The UK government announced it will invest £106 million for five hubs to develop the use of quantum technology in medical scanners, secure communication networks...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Safer code in C++ with lifetime bounds
For better performance in software, we avoid unnecessary copies. To do so, we introduce references (or pointers). An example of this ideas in C++ is the std::string_view...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: CDT Releases Report on Reducing Disability Bias
In this installment of CCCs Weekly Computing News, we’re sharing an important report by the Center for Democracy & Technology that addresses the need for better...
From Schneier on Security
The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness
Friday’s massive internet outage, caused by a mid-sized tech company called CrowdStrike, disrupted major airlines, hospitals, and banks. Nearly 7,000 flights were...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
A Thank You Note from the Past Chair, Ruth Lennon
I have never been one to highlight myself on this website as I think it is better to highlight others. That is why we are here – to advocate for women in computing...
From insideHPC
Lambda Launches Nvidia-Based Cloud Clusters for AI Model Training
SAN JOSE, July 24, 2024 — GPU cloud company Lambda has unveiled Lambda 1-Click Clusters, designed for AI engineers’ and researchers’ short-term access to multi-node...
From insideHPC
Hitachi Vantara Announces General Availability of Hitachi iQ and New AI Discovery Service to Help Businesses Become AI-Ready
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 25, 2024 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today...
From Schneier on Security