Communications of the ACM
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March 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter is Dying?
Doubt it, I still get an overload of tweets, mostly tech and not politics Get the impression that many still live there.
Natasha Lomas@riptari / 8:20 AM EDT•March 28, 2023
It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid…From The Eponymous Pickle
Teslas Being Hacked for $$
A well known kind of security breach worked on a Tesla. Big finding reward. Expected to be remotely fixed.
Pwn2Own Hackers Breach a Tesla Twice, By PC Magazine, March 29, 2023
Tesla’s security response team validated the results…From The Eponymous Pickle
More Details, but Not Enough
Interesting point, but do not fully understand. Posting to be revisited.
By Gregory Goth, Commissioned by CACM Staff, March 29, 2023
Nearly two years since the publication of the paper in Nature,The…From insideHPC
Networking Chip Startup Enfabrica Emerges from Stealth, Reports 50X Memory Expansion in Clusters for AI and HPC
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – MARCH 28, 2023 – Enfabrica Corporation, a startup building networking silicon and software for AI and accelerated computing workloads, today emerged from stealth mode to announce a class of chips called…
From Computational Complexity
Alan Turing, The Opera
From insideHPC
IBM Cloud Direct Link Available on Cologix Access Marketplace
DENVER – March 29, 2023 — Cologix, a network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company, today announced that IBM Cloud Direct Link is now available on Cologix Access Marketplace, the company’s Software-Defined…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoom IQ Updates
Zoom IQ Does some Interesting Tool things. Note taking interesting.
Zoom IQ Assistant Adds Generative AI Tools Fueled by Multiple LLMs
Eric Hal Schwartz on March 27, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Zoom has unveiled a new suite of generative…From Schneier on Security
The Security Vulnerabilities of Message Interoperability
Jenny Blessing and Ross Anderson have evaluated the security of systems designed to allow the various Internet messaging platforms to interoperate with each other:
The Digital Markets Act ruled that users on different platforms…From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Scraps Metaverse?
It would seem a natural thing for Disney to experiment seriously with Metaverses.
Disney reportedly scraps its metaverse unit
Disney appears to be the latest company to pull back the metaverse, as CEO Bob Iger reverses more decisions…From insideHPC
Cerebras, Databricks Stoke Generative AI Arena with Open Source LLMs
In few other areas of the global economy are the rounds of creative destruction more rapid and more intense than the HPC-AI sector. We see this today with the generative AI sensation: OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November has…
From insideHPC
Drs. Joffman and Somojai Win Enrico Fermi Award
March 28, 2023 — The White House today announced that Darleane C. Hoffman and Gabor A. Somorjai are the recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. Darleane C. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a nuclear chemist known for the study of…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF and 5 other U.S. Agencies Launch Program to Build an Integrated Data and Knowledge Infrastructure
This week, the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with five other U.S. government agencies, launched the Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN). This $20 million initiative, will provide funding opportunities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Watson StudioAI at Masters?
Below possibly methods being used for Masters demonstration. I had previously looked at Chef Watson.
From OpenAI GPT:
IBM Watson Studio AutoAI is a cloud-based tool that helps users to automatically build, train and deploy machine…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Plans Predictive and Generative Masters Tournament Experience
Should be an interesting demonstration by IBM. Hint at some predictive analytics? Will watch and report on this.
IBM…From insideHPC
Dell: Threats and Opportunities for U.S. HPC Leadership
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Driving the development and leveraging the use of supercomputing technologies and systems is a critical strategic advantage for geopolitical players. The U.S. Council on Competitiveness, which champions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NFT Plan Dropped
From the BBC, indicator of a bubble?
NFT: Plans for Royal Mint produced token dropped
Plans for the NFT for Britain were launched when Rishi Sunak was chancellor
By Helen Catt & Sam Francis
Plans for a government backed non-fungible…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon To Go Head to Head with SpaceX
Satellite Internet Dominance
ACM NEWS
Amazon To Go Head to Head with SpaceX in a Battle for Satellite Internet Dominance
By MIT Technology Review, March 27, 2023
The rocket's inaugural flight will carry two prototype Project Kuiper…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton AI Powered Risk Radar and more
Wharton AI Powered Risk Radar" From Bard
Wharton researchers have developed a new AI-powered tool to help businesses identify and mitigate risks. The tool, called "Risk Radar," uses machine learning to analyze data from a variety…From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in Snipping Tools
Both Google’s Pixel’s Markup Tool and the Windows Snipping Tool have vulnerabilities that allow people to partially recover content that was edited out of images.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Mood Gloves
When we watch a film, it's not just the pictures that make the experience, it's the soundtrack too. The music and sound effects play a big part in setting the mood of a film. They matter. If you are to get the sinking feeling…
From BLOG@CACM
Automatic Language Translation Still Unsatisfactory
Google Translate and DeepL Translate still have trouble recognizing the second person singular and plural and the polite form, even in very simple sentences.
From insideHPC
UK Researchers: Quantum Can Simulate Catalysts in Chemical Processes, Cut Environmental Impacts
Researchers from Riverlane quantum engineering company and sustainable technology company Johnson Matthey announced they have developed quantum algorithms to simulate the catalysts used in industrial chemical processes. The companies…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
C++20: consteval and constexpr functions
Optimizing compilers seek try to push as much of the computation as possible at compile time. In modern C++, you can declare a function as ‘constexpr’, meaning that you state explicitly that the function may be executed at compile…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crewless Container Ships
Saw several example that indicated they were in test. Minimal crew still might add safety at low cost for a large ship?
Crewless Container Ships Appear on the Horizon
By BBC News, March 27, 2023
Eventually will navigate aided…From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy Flaw in ChatGPT
Schneier reports on this, as usual his commenters provide thoughtful additional insight. Worh looking at.
OpenAI has disabled ChatGPT’s privacy history, almost certainly because they had a security flaw…From insideHPC
Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder and Semiconductor Pioneer, 94
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced that company co-founder Gordon Moore passed away on Friday, March 24 at the age of 94. The foundation reported he died peacefully…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Materials Discovery
New, lucrative and very interesting space
Artificial Intelligence for Materials Discovery
By Don Monroe
Communications of the ACM, April 2023, Vol. 66 No. 4, Pages 9-11 10.1145/3583080
3D chemical compounds floating in space,The…From insideHPC
HPE DoD Webinar April 27: Bringing Exascale HPC to the Masses
There will be an HPE DoD webinar on Thursday, April 27 from 2-3 pm ET entitled “Bringing Exascale to the Masses.” The speaker will be Steve Heibein, public sector AI chief technologist, HPE. For registration information, go here…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Plugins for ChatGPT use
Good piece on current Open ChatGPT Plugins, including the ability to join the waitlist for their use.
ChatGPT plugins https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins
We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins…From The Eponymous Pickle
Configurable Robots Can Be Mixed, Matched for Tasks in Space
Configurable Robots Can Be Mixed, Matched for Tasks in Space
ACM TECHNEWS
By Interesting Engineering
March 22, 2023
The Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System could revolutionize how we approach space robotics, according to MIT…