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March 2023


From The Eponymous Pickle

Twitter is Dying?

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. 

Twitter is Dying?

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 $$

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

More Details, but Not Enough

Interesting point, but do not fully understand.    Posting to be revisited.

More Details, but Not Enough

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

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

 

Last Thursday I attended the world premier of The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing, a new production from Chicago Opera Theater composed by Justine Chen with the libretto (text) from David Simpatico.

The opera takes a mostlyBetween…


From insideHPC

IBM Cloud Direct Link Available on Cologix Access Marketplace

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 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

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?

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

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

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

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?

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

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 Brings Generative AI Commentary and Hole-by-Hole Player Predictions to the Masters Digital Experience

IBM…


From insideHPC

Dell: Threats and Opportunities for U.S. HPC Leadership

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Privacy Flaw in ChatGPT

Schneier reports on this,    as usual his commenters provide thoughtful additional insight.  Worh looking at.

ChatGPT Privacy Flaw

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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