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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 insideHPC
$100M Series B for Generative AI Platform Writer
SAN FRANCISCO — Writer, a generative AI platform for enterprises, announced its Series B funding round of $100 million today. The round is being led by ICONIQ Growth...
From Putting People First
Digital border governance: a human rights based approach
This collaborative study, conducted by the UN Human Rights Office and the University of Essex, analyses the human rights implications of specific border technologies...
From Schneier on Security
Using Hacked LastPass Keys to Steal Cryptocurrency
Remember last November, when hackers broke into the network for LastPass—a password database—and stole password vaults with both encrypted and plaintext data for...
From Putting People First
[Report] How green is household behaviour?
How Green is Household Behaviour? presents an overview of results from the 2022 OECD Survey on Environmental Policies and Individual Behaviour Change. The survey...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20230918: New AMD CPUs, Intel FPGAs; Arm IPO and Strategic Pivot; AI for Science
A happy mid-September morning to you. Here's a hop (4:54) through recent HPC news, including: AMD launches new EPYC 8004 CPUs for energy- and space-constrainedHPC...
From Computational Complexity
ACM to go paper-free! Good? Bad?
The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) will soon stop having print versions of most its publications. Rather than list which ones are going paper free, Iare...
From Putting People First
UX needs a sense of urgency about AI
"UX professionals must seize the AI career imperative or become irrelevant", writes Jakob Nielsen in his blog UX Tigers, particularly with current AI-driven tools...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cleaning Squid
Two links on how to properly clean squid. I learned a few years ago, in Spain, and got pretty good at it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
From Schneier on Security
LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear
Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. I’m particularly interested in a...
From insideHPC
TSMC Moves Its Renewable Energy Target Forward to 2040
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Sep. 15, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced an acceleration of its RE100 sustainability timetable, moving its target for...
From Schneier on Security
On Technologies for Automatic Facial Recognition
Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people: With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand’s head, Facebook could prevent users from...
From insideHPC
ISC 2024: Call for Presentations Is Open
Hamburg – Call for presentations at ISC 2024 is now open for scientists and engineers from academia, industry and government to contribute discussions of theirISC...
From insideHPC
QuEra and Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Partner on Quantum in Sejong City, South Korea
BOSTON and SEJONG CITY, South Korea and DAEJEON, South Korea – September 14, 2023 – Neutral-atom quantum comuting company QuEra Computing, the Sejong Special Autonomous...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at swampUP 2023 in San Jose, California, on September 13, 2023 at 11:35 AM PT. The...
From Computational Complexity
Mr. Jaeger and The Scroll
There were three major influencers in my educational journey: Mike Sipser, my PhD advisor at Berkeley and MIT, Juris Hartmanis who founded the field of computational...
From Schneier on Security
Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store
Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store. An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been...
From insideHPC
NSF Invests $76M in 4 Physics Frontiers Centers – with an Accent on Quantum
Exploring, understanding and harnessing mysterious phenomena at the frontiers of physics are the aims of four research centers to be backed by $76 million in funding...
From insideHPC
Code Intelligence Launches LLM-Powered AI-Assistant for Software Security
Bonn, Germany, September 13th, 2023 – Code Intelligence today announced CI Spark, an LLM-powered AI-assistant for software security testing. CI Spark automatically...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Final Reminder to Submit Challenge Problems Requiring AI/OR Collaboration
This is a final reminder to please submit your Challenge Problems which require collaboration between the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR)...
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