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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Efficient In-Place UTF-16 Unicode Correction with ARM NEON
Modern-day text in software can be expected to be Unicode. Unicode is stored in two formats: UTF-8 and UTF-16. UTF-16 is an encoding system used by several platforms...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Join the crowd with swarm intelligence
Next time you are in a large crowd, look around you: all those people moving together, and mostly not bumping into each other. How does it happen? Flocks of birds...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Three Keys To Being A Great Teacher
For the last 20 years or so I have been able to meet some truly great teachers. Some I visited in their schools. Some I met at conferences. Some I have become good...
From Schneier on Security
Casino Players Using Hidden Cameras for Cheating
The basic strategy is to place a device with a hidden camera in a position to capture normally hidden card values, which are interpreted by an accomplice off-site...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Nemisindo: breaking the sound barrier
Games are becoming ever more realistic. Now, thanks to the work of Joshua Reiss’s research team and their spinout company, Nemisindo, it’s not just the graphics...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid on Pizza
Pizza Hut in Taiwan has a history of weird pizzas, including a “2022 scalloped pizza with Oreos around the edge, and deep-fried chicken and calamari studded throughout...
From Schneier on Security
Scams Based on Fake Google Emails
Scammers are hacking Google Forms to send email to victims that come from google.com. Brian Krebs reports on the effects. Boing Boing post.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The logic piano
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Victorian, William Stanley Jevons was born in Liverpool in 1835. He was famous in his day as an economist and his...
From Schneier on Security
Spyware Maker NSO Group Found Liable for Hacking WhatsApp
A judge has found that NSO Group, maker of the Pegasus spyware, has violated the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by hacking WhatsApp in order to spy on people using...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Mike Lynch: serial success
By Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Mike Lynch was one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs. An electrical engineer, he built his businesses around...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Superhero Syllogisms
by Paul Curzon Queen Mary University of London, first appeared in A BIT of CS4FN 2 Superheroes don’t just have physical powers. Often they come out on top because...
From Schneier on Security
Criminal Complaint against LockBit Ransomware Writer
The Justice Department has published the criminal complaint against Dmitry Khoroshev, for building and maintaining the LockBit ransomware.
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes: The Next New Big Thing in AI?, UALink and Optical I/O, Arm vs. Qualcomm
A happy start to the holiday season to you! As we enter Christmas week, here’s a quick (6:14) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: long...
From Computational Complexity
Complexity Year in Review
Back in the day (circa 1989) we studied locally random reductions which would lead to all those exciting interactive proof results. Somehow locally random reductions...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Simpler and faster parsing code with std::views::split
Parsing text files is often confusing irrespective of your programming language. It can also be surprising slow. As an example, let us consider the following problem...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sticker
A sticker for your water bottle. Blog moderation policy.
From insideHPC
DOE Issues $75M SciDAC Funding Opportunity
Washington, DC, Dec. 20, 2024The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC), under the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, is announcing...
From insideHPC
DOE Releases Report on Data Center Electricity Demand
WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 20, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the publication of the 2024 Report on U.S. Data Center Energy Use produced by...
From Schneier on Security
Mailbox Insecurity
It turns out that all cluster mailboxes in the Denver area have the same master key. So if someone robs a postal carrier, they can open any mailbox. I get that...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group