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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
Launching a Lunar Flashlight
Looking for ice and other components of a longer stay on other worlds. NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Launches to Shine a Light on Lunar IceBy Ryan Whitwam on December...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Develop Virtual Molecular Library of Thousands of 'Command Sentences' for Cells
Cellular 'Command Sentences'. Researchers Develop Virtual Molecular Library of Thousands of 'Command Sentences' for Cells News-Medical Life Sciences, Emily Henderson...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Patches iPhone Zero-Day
The most recent iPhone update—to version 16.1.2—patches a zero-day vulnerability that “may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released beforeNews...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Mutation Carol 2
Ghosts of creations past and citations not present Domenico Amalfitano, Ana Paiva, Alexis Inquel, Luis Pinto, Anna Rita Fasolino, and René Just are the authors...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC’s 2022 Highlights
The CCC would like to give a special thanks to everyone from the community for their support and participation over the past year. We accomplished a lot of important...
From insideHPC
ClearML and Ultralytics Partner on Open Source Technologies for MLOps
Tel Aviv, IL, December 15, 2022 – ClearML, an open source, end-to-end MLOps platform, and Ultralytics, a vision AI company, announced today that they have partnered...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Checking for the absence of a string, naive AVX-512 edition
Suppose you would like to check that a string is not present in a large document. In C, you might do the following using the standard function strstr: bool is_present...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Goal is not Intelligence?
Some thoughts ...AI's true goal may no longer be intelligence in ZDNet, ExcerptsSome scholars of AI warn that the present technologies may never add up to "true"...
From insideHPC
Finnish IT Center CSC (Site of LUMI) and TACC in HPC Collaboration
The CSC – the Finnish IT Center for Science – and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, have signed a memorandum of understanding...
From Computational Complexity
FinTech is Dead, Long Live FinTech
Bill didn't feel he had the expertise to share new insights on the FTX affair. Never stopped me.FTX is nothing short of corporate malfeasance in a poorly regulated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Elon Musk sells $3.6bn of shares in electric car maker Tesla
New movement in tech oriented stock, Elon Musk sells $3.6bn of shares in electric car maker Tesla in the BBCPublished, 11 hours ago, Elon Musk takes part in aBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empirical Optimization with Divergent Fixed Point Algorithm – When All Else Fails
Of Technical Interest, worth signing into:Empirical Optimization with Divergent Fixed Point Algorithm – When All Else Fails DECEMBER 9, 2022 EXPLAINABLE AI FEATURED...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NSA Surveillance Effort: Too Far?
TechnologyCybersecurityNSA Watchdog Concluded One Analyst’s Surveillance Project Went Too Far In BloombergNewly unearthed inspector general’s report is codaT...
From Schneier on Security
A Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet
Security researchers found a software bug in the KmsdBot cryptomining botnet: With no error-checking built in, sending KmsdBot a malformed command—like its controllers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
Listened to the report on the Nuclear Fusion testing Breakthrough this past week by the DOE and Lawrence Livermore Labs (LLNL), More to follow. Here is a presentation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uncertain US Self Driving?
More indication of key elements of uncertainty. But still, I believe, in time ultimate success.Self-Driving Cars Face Uncertain Path to U.S. DeploymentBy Reuters...
From Schneier on Security
Reimagining Democracy
Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy. The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who are all thinking about...
From CERIAS Blog
Three podcasts with Spaf
If you haven't reached your quota yet for hearing from Santa Spaf, here are three recent podcasts where I was interviewed on a variety of topics. One common theme...
From insideHPC
ALCF to Hold Developer Session on “Introduction to Migrating to the SYCL Portal,” Jan. 25
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a developer session on “Introduction to Migrating to the SYCL Portal” on Wednesday, January 25 from 11 am to...
From insideHPC