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Killing the Ad Cookie
From The Eponymous Pickle

Killing the Ad Cookie

Major players are talking about disabling the misused Cookie.  Still some argument about the method and implications.  And can we trust them to remove what drives...

Serious MacOS Vulnerability Patched
From Schneier on Security

Serious MacOS Vulnerability Patched

Apple just patched a MacOS vulnerability that bypassed malware checks. The flaw is akin to a front entrance that’s barred and bolted effectively, but with a cat...

Nuance and Microsoft Towards Healthcare
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nuance and Microsoft Towards Healthcare

An indication by Microsoft about their seriousness in delivering healthcare. Microsoft's Nuance Gambit Shows Healthcare Shaping Up as Next Tech BattlegroundTheMicrosoft's...

Amazon and Walmart Eyeing Further Garage and in Home Drop off.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon and Walmart Eyeing Further Garage and in Home Drop off.

 I thought this approach had been limited, hearing little about it recently.   But apparently Amazon and Wal-Mart are thinking to expand it.   Will Americans open...

Atos UK and Ireland Named a Times Top 50 Employer for Women for 3rd Year
From insideHPC

Atos UK and Ireland Named a Times Top 50 Employer for Women for 3rd Year

London – 29 April 2021 – Atos UK and Ireland has again been recognised as a leading employer of women by its inclusion in the Times Top 50 Employer for Women 2021...

German Aerospace Center and Cambridge Quantum Partner to Use Quantum to Build Battery Simulations
From insideHPC

German Aerospace Center and Cambridge Quantum Partner to Use Quantum to Build Battery Simulations

CAMBRIDGE, UK, April 29th, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has partnered with the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt; DLR)...

Trust and Scientific Data Sharing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Trust and Scientific Data Sharing

A key point.  Its trust in various contexts as well, like misuse.    And data is an asset, a concept we also experimented with.  We also discovered that data value...

IBM to Acquire Turbonomic  AIOps for Hybrid Cloud
From insideHPC

IBM to Acquire Turbonomic AIOps for Hybrid Cloud

ARMONK, N.Y., April 29, 2021 — IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Turbonomic, an Application Resource Management (ARM) and Network...

USAF Researchers Partner with Quantum Computing Company
From The Eponymous Pickle

USAF Researchers Partner with Quantum Computing Company

Had a short connect with the USAF regarding IP DevelopmentACM NEWS  Exclusive: Air Force Research Taps Quantum Computing   By Axios   April 29, 2021U.S. Air Force...

 infinityQube Announces Room Temperature ‘Quantum Analog Computing’ Using Established Chip Technologies
From insideHPC

 infinityQube Announces Room Temperature ‘Quantum Analog Computing’ Using Established Chip Technologies

MONTREAL, April 29, 2021 — infinityQ Technology, Inc., a women-led, engineered and managed startup, today announced its new computer, infinityQube. The Montréal...

Molex Scales Deployments of High-Speed Interconnect for Hyperscale and Data Centers
From insideHPC

Molex Scales Deployments of High-Speed Interconnect for Hyperscale and Data Centers

LISLE, IL – April 29, 2021 – Molex, a leading global connectivity and electronics solutions provider, is scaling global deployments of its high-speed copper and...

Ring Adds a Geofence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ring Adds a Geofence

A geofence is a concept to integrate specific programmed reactions to changes in physical location.  Usually leaving some 'fence' or multidimensional area.  For...

Extended Reality to Support Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Extended Reality to Support Innovation

Towards extended reality they say.  Ways to quickly formulate, test, record results, and use new data effectively would be most useful to support such apporaches...

Supermicro AMD A+ Servers Meeting the HPC Challenge
From insideHPC

Supermicro AMD A+ Servers Meeting the HPC Challenge

As a result of the high demand for HPC, we’re seeing private and public sector organizations pursue hardware solutions architected with innovative high performance...

EBook on Ensemble Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

EBook on Ensemble Learning

I see that Jason Brownlee has a new book on Ensemble Learning,  a method  I recently mentioned here,  “Ensemble Learning Algorithms With Python“   at the link a...

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Coloration
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Coloration

Nice excerpt from Martin Wallin’s book Squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read...

Identifying People Through Lack of Cell Phone Use
From Schneier on Security

Identifying People Through Lack of Cell Phone Use

In this entertaining story of French serial criminal Rédoine Faïd and his jailbreaking ways, there’s this bit about cell phone surveillance: After Faïd’s helicopter...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Congrats to the New Members

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off no matter what they say—Barbara McClintock David Oxtoby is...

LLNL, IBM and Red Hat to Explore Standardized Resource Management Interface for Cloud HPC
From insideHPC

LLNL, IBM and Red Hat to Explore Standardized Resource Management Interface for Cloud HPC

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), IBM and Red Hat are combining to develop best practices for interfacing high-performance computing (HPC) schedulers...

Ideal divisors: when a division compiles down to just a multiplication
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Ideal divisors: when a division compiles down to just a multiplication

The division instruction is one of the most expensive instruction in your CPU. Thus optimizing compilers often compile divisions by known constants down to a multiplication...
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