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Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps
From Schneier on Security

Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps

Google Maps now stores location data locally on your device, meaning that Google no longer has that data to turn over to the police.

CS4FN Advent Calendar – Day 25 bonus Christmas crackers: have you ever seen this cracker joke?
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent Calendar – Day 25 bonus Christmas crackers: have you ever seen this cracker joke?

If you’re pulling a Christmas cracker today look out for this now famous but fairly puzzling ‘joke’ – Q: What kind of cough medicine does Dracula take?A: Con medicine...

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 23: Father Christmas – checking his list, spotting the errors
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 23: Father Christmas – checking his list, spotting the errors

Our CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar has now been running for 23 days! That’s one post every single day, matching a computing-themed blog post to the image...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Parts into Fertilizer
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Parts into Fertilizer

It’s squid parts from college dissections, so it’s not a volume operation. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in thehere...

Data Exfiltration Using Indirect Prompt Injection
From Schneier on Security

Data Exfiltration Using Indirect Prompt Injection

Interesting attack on a LLM: In Writer, users can enter a ChatGPT-like session to edit or create their documents. In this chat session, the LLM can retrieve information...

CS4FN Advent 2023: wreaths and rope memory – weave your own space age computer
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent 2023: wreaths and rope memory – weave your own space age computer

Each day throughout December (until Christmas Day) we’ll be publishing a computing-themed blog post suggested by the picture on the front of our Advent Calendar...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Have I Been Cheating at Wordle?

What natural streaks say about recent facile chess cheating accusations Sundials source Frank King programmed an ancestor of Wordle at Cambridge University in the...

Lightmatter Announces $155M Funding Round, Expands Photonic Chip Deployments
From insideHPC

Lightmatter Announces $155M Funding Round, Expands Photonic Chip Deployments

December 19, 2023, BOSTON — Photonics company Lightmatter announced it has raised a $155M Series C-2 led by GV (Google Ventures) and Viking Global Investors, with...

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 21: stars and celestial navigation
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 21: stars and celestial navigation

Every day from the 1st to the 25th of December this blog will publish a Christmas Computing post, as part of our CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar. On the...

Arrcus Joins Ultra Ethernet Consortium for AI and HPC Data Center Networking
From insideHPC

Arrcus Joins Ultra Ethernet Consortium for AI and HPC Data Center Networking

SAN JOSE –Dec. 19, 2023 – Arrcus, a hyperscale networking software company, announced it has joined the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a Linux Foundation initiative...

EuroHPC JU Issues Quantum Hosting Call
From insideHPC

EuroHPC JU Issues Quantum Hosting Call

Dec. 19, 2023 — The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a call for expression of interest to select hosting entities...

qPOC: QauntumBasel, D-Wave and VINCI Energies in HVAC Design Proof-of-Concept
From insideHPC

qPOC: QauntumBasel, D-Wave and VINCI Energies in HVAC Design Proof-of-Concept

PALO ALTO, Calif. & BURNABY, British Columbia–December 19, 2023 — A quantum proof of concept (qPoC) project in the area of sustainable building design has beenqPOC...

Query Understanding and Ecommerce
From The Noisy Channel

Query Understanding and Ecommerce

Yesterday, I had the privilege to deliver a “last lecture” at eBay, where I have been working with the query science team for nearly 6 years. I took the opportunity...

From Computational Complexity

2023 Complexity Year in Review

Result of the year goes to Polynomial-Time Pseudodeterministic Construction of PrimesLijie Chen, Zhenjian Lu, Igor C. Oliveira, Hanlin Ren and Rahul SanthanamAn...

GCHQ Christmas Codebreaking Challenge
From Schneier on Security

GCHQ Christmas Codebreaking Challenge

Looks like fun. Details here.

Book excerpt: Wisdom of the trustworthy
From Geeking with Greg

Book excerpt: Wisdom of the trustworthy

(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It") Wisdom of the crowds...

Quantum Technology Companies Qubitekk and Qunnect Claim First Equipment Interoperability on EPB Quantum Network
From insideHPC

Quantum Technology Companies Qubitekk and Qunnect Claim First Equipment Interoperability on EPB Quantum Network

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Dec. 19, 2023) – In an industry collaboration to establish quantum networking interoperability on a commercial network, quantum networking hardware...

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 19: jingle bells or warning bells? Avoiding computer scams
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 19: jingle bells or warning bells? Avoiding computer scams

It’s Day 19 of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar. Every day throughout Advent we’ll be doing our best to publish a computing-themed post that relates...

OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today
From Schneier on Security

OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today

There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. Some articles are...

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 18: cracker or hacker? Cyber security
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 18: cracker or hacker? Cyber security

It’s Day 18 of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar. We’ve been posting a computing-themed article linked to the picture on the ‘front’ of the advent calendar...
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