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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
Microsoft Goes After Cybercriminals
Someone needs to. Microsoft Teams Up to Take Legal Action Against CybercriminalsMicrosoft, Fortra, and others allied to obtain a court order to disrupt cracked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Elon Musk founds new AI Company Called X.AI
Musk moves into the space. Elon Musk founds new AI company called X.AIStory by Jay Peters and Emma Roth • Yesterday 6:32 PMElon Musk has created a new company...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT-4 Gets B on Quantum Information Science Final
Not quite a Quantum A? Receives ‘B’ on Scott Aaronson’s Quantum Information Science Final — Immediately Emails the Dean Seeking a Better GradeBY MATT SWAYNInsider...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Colossal Squid
Interesting article on the colossal squid, which is larger than the giant squid. The article answers a vexing question: So why do we always hear about the giant...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking on “Cybersecurity Thinking to Reinvent Democracy” at RSA Conference 2023 in SanIT...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Suicide
Here’s a religious hack: You want to commit suicide, but it’s a mortal sin: your soul goes straight to hell, forever. So what you do is murder someone. That will...
From insideHPC
Purdue Computes Initiative Includes Institute of Physical AI and Semiconductor Facilities Expansion
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 14, 2023 – Purdue University has announced Purdue Computes, an initiative consisting of three dimensions. The first pillar of Purdue...
From insideHPC
Dell HPC Strategist Jay Beausseau to Leave Company
Jay Boisseau, a senior HPC strategist at Dell Technologies for more than eight years, has announced on LinkedIn that he is leaving the company “to get back to my...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Interfaces are not free in Go
We are all familiar with the concept even if we are not aware of it: when you learn about arithmetic in school, you use the same mathematical symbols whether you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Natural General Intelligence: How Understanding the Brain can Help us Build AI
Brain Building AI Natural General Intelligence: How understanding the brain can help us build AIby Christopher Summerfield (Author)Since the time of Turing, computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Photonics and AI
Fiber Optics and computingLinking Chips With Light For Faster AI IEEE Spectrum's semiconductor expert Samuel K. Moore and the race to put fiber optics inside computers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digi Dogs back in NYC
I had mentioned that the 'DigiDogs robotic police had been rejected by big city police. Now they are being brought back in.ACM NEWS'Digidog Is Out of the Pound'...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Quantum Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2022 Results
BURNABY, British Columbia & PALO ALTO, Calif.– Quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Quantum Inc., (NYSE: QBTS) today announced financial results...
From Schneier on Security
Gaining an Advantage in Roulette
You can beat the game without a computer: On a perfect [roulette] wheel, the ball would always fall in a random way. But over time, wheels develop flaws, which...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS Panel Recaps: Sustaining Computing Research Communities in a Hybrid World
Continuing in our AAAS panel recaps, the CCC hosted a panel titled, “Sustaining Computing Research Communities in a Hybrid World”. The panelists were Brent Hecht...
From insideHPC
Samsung Joins OpenMP Architecture Review Board
Beaverton, Oregon — The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) today announced that Samsung has joined the board. The OpenMP ARB is a group of hardware and software...
From insideHPC
Sony Makes Edge AI Investment in Raspberry Pi
TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, UK, April 12, 2023 — Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (“SSS”) and Raspberry Pi Ltd. (“RPL”) today announced the agreement by SSS to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Effectiveness of Security Measures
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTSTechnical Perspective: The Effectiveness of Security MeasuresBy Nicolas ChristinCommunications of the ACM, September 2022, Vol. 65 No. 9, Page...
From Computational Complexity
My Week at Simons
This week finds me at the Simons Institute for Theoretical Computer Science in Berkeley California. Simons started about the same time I joined the administrative...
From insideHPC