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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 Schneier on Security
Surveillance Cameras Disguised as Clothes Hooks
This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them.
From insideHPC
Intel Announces AI-Oriented 5th Gen Xeon, Gives Gaudi3 GPU Accelerator Sneak Peak
Gearing up for what it intends to be a multi-horse race in the exploding AI chip sector, Intel today announced a next-generation Xeon enterprise and data center...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 14: Why is your internet so slow + a festive kriss-kross puzzle
Today’s CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar is showing a picture of shiny tinsel, which reminds me a bit of computer cables. At least, enough to theme this...
From insideHPC
How HPC Centers Can Start the Move to Quantum Now
By Mark Mattingley-Scott, Quantum Brilliance -- To get started, it's best HPC center and their customers to go with a small and incremental quantum strategy. AHow...
From Geeking with Greg
Extended book excerpt: Computational propaganda
(This is a long excerpt about manipulation of algorithms by adversaries from my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet...
From Computational Complexity
Respect
I've generally avoided talking about all the events at college campuses in the last few months that came to a head at the congressional hearings last week that...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC and CRA-I Respond to NIH RFI on Developing Consent Language for Research Using Digital Health Technologies
Yesterday, CCC, in collaboration with CRA-Industry (CRA-I), responded to a Request for Information released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Developing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Forward to Computer Science Education in 2024
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future!” --Niels BohrMy track record at looking forward in CS education is a mixed bag. I kept expecting...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance by the US Postal Service
This is not about mass surveillance of mail, this is about sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves: To track...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 13: woolly hat: warming versus cooling
Welcome to Day 3 of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar. The picture on the ‘box’ was a woolly bobble / pom-pom hat, so let’s see if we can find something...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Measuring the size of the cache line empirically
Our computers do not read or write memory in units of bits or even bytes. Rather memory is accessed in small blocks of memory called “cache line”. For a given system...
From insideHPC
Terra Quantum Launches TQ42 Quantum-as-a-Service Platform
St. Gallen, Switzerland – December 12, 2023 – Quantum softare company Terra Quantum today launched TQ42, a quantum software-as-a-service platform designed to make...
From Schneier on Security
New Windows/Linux Firmware Attack
Interesting attack based on malicious pre-OS logo images: LogoFAIL is a constellation of two dozen newly discovered vulnerabilities that have lurked for years,...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 12: Computer Memory – Molecules and Memristors
Computer memory molecular style, memristors, maths puzzle answer and a “20 questions” activity Remember remember the 24th of December – as that’s the day to hang...
From insideHPC
IBM, Micron, Others Partner with NY State in $10B Project for Sub-2nm Chip Fab
New York state has announced a partnership with IBM, Micron, and other industry players to invest $10 billion into expanding the Albany NanoTech Complex with aIBM...
From insideHPC
Ayar Labs Names Mark Wade CEO
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Dec. 11, 2023 – Silicon photonics company Ayar Labs today announced the appointment of co-founder and CTO Mark Wade (pictured here) to serve...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Accepting Visioning Proposals from the Community
The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research that aligns...
From Schneier on Security
Facebook Enables Messenger End-to-End Encryption by Default
It’s happened. Details here, and tech details here (for messages in transit) and here (for messages in storage) Rollout to everyone will take months, but it’s a...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 11: the proof of the pudding… mathematical proof
A mathematical proof and a maths puzzle (but no hard sums, promise). Thank you to everyone who’s been reading our Advent Calendar and said nice things about itContinue...
From Computational Complexity