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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 CERIAS Blog
Spaf is interviewed about his new book
In the 100th episode of CISO Stories: Discussion with Gene Spafford on some of the common cybersecurity myths and how to better cope with the changing environment...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
A Call to All ACM-W Chapters! Now is the Time to Find Your Buddy
Are you an ACM-W Chapter in collaboration with another ACM/ACM-W/SIG chapter? We love to hear from you! And if you don’t have a collaborator, partner, a buddy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Earth's Poles Flipping?
The linked article below claims that NASA has detected an increase in the wandering of the earth's magnetic poles. Ultimately this can produce what is called a...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Above and Beyond Scholarship – Julita Inca Chiroque
Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2012 Country of residence at the time of receiving the ACM...
From insideHPC
Shakespeare Content Helps CATALOG Claim DNA-based Computing Milestone
DNA-based data storage and computation company Catalog Technologies reported today what it said is “a historic breakthrough in DNA computation by demonstratingShakespeare...
From Geeking with Greg
Focus on the Long-term
One of my favorite papers of all time is "Focus on the Long-Term: It's better for Users and Business" from Google Research. This paper found that Google makes more...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What is the memory usage of a small array in C++?
In an earlier blog post, I reported that the memory usage of a small byte array in Java (e.g., an array containing 4 bytes) was about 24 bytes. In other words:Continue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Fusion Energy Development from Lawrence Livermore
Have been hearing much that these advances are still net energy deficient. Seeking paper. Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopesNet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Will Use US Chips
Arizona made chips to be used ... Tim Cook Confirms Apple Will Use US-Made Chips From New Arizona FabBy Adrianna Nine on December 7, 2022 in ExtremeTechAs if...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chip Makers, Once in High Demand, Confront Sudden Challenges
Supply Chains, Designs,ContextsChip Makers, Once in High Demand, Confront Sudden ChallengesBy The New York Times, October 28, 2022A few months ago, makers of computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualizing Nuclear War?
Happy thoughts here, not sure talking or virtualizing does much. But consider all the war games that have been played, Including civilians. Serious stuff....
From The Eponymous Pickle
ESnet Launches Next-Generation Network to Enhance Collaborative Science
Better Networks Built for Research.ACM TECHNEWSESnet Launches Next-Generation Network to Enhance Collaborative ScienceBy Berkeley Lab News Center, October 18, 2022...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Wearable Reasoner
Reasonable thought, but how well does it work in varying contexts. Need to be wearable? Good demo included.Wearable Reasoner: Towards Enhanced Human Rationality...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Is Finally Encrypting iCloud Backups
After way too many years, Apple is finally encrypting iCloud backups: Based on a screenshot from Apple, these categories are covered when you flip on Advanced Data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Machine Learns with ML for Sheets (ML forSpreadsheet?)
Very interesting update ... like the idea, will look at it. Click through for more. Google brings machine learning to online spreadsheets with Simple ML forSean...
From Computational Complexity
Commercials are not logical. FTX edition.
Some people asked me to comment on FTX since I teach Crypto. My insights are no better than anyone else; however, I have wanted to do a blog post about the illogic...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 11 2022)
As we focus on some types of unfortunate discrimination (race, gender), we may become blind to other types of discrimination. For example, tend to discrimate against...
From The Eponymous Pickle
San Francisco Now Says No to Armed Robots
Mentioned the earlier decision here a week ago, and predicted it would NOT last in SF's policing environment. It has now quickly been reversed. San FranciscoExplosive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dealing with Tsunami of Data
Continues.RisingWave Emerges to Tackle Tsunami of Real-Time DataAlex Woodie in DatanamiOnly the most advanced companies have overcome the technical complexity involved...
From The Eponymous Pickle