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Way back in time, cybersecurity was all about controlling access to the computer in the locked room with the raised floor. Well, you had to trust the people you did let in of course. I will not say much about the students I went…
UK Moves forward in Defence Quantum Computing
Ministry of Defence acquires government's first quantum computer
In the BBC, By Liv McMahon, Technology team
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has acquired the government's first quantum…In Reuters:
Exclusive: Europe eyes Musk's SpaceX to bridge launch gap left by Russia tensions
By Tim Hepher and Joey Roulette
PARIS, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun preliminary technical discussions…Brought to my attention last week. Notably Cloud aspects.
'Retbleed' Speculative Execution Attack Affects AMD, Intel CPUs
By The Hacker News, July 18, 2022
The most serious attack vector for Retbleed is likely through cloud…Shanghai, August 12, 2022 – The RISC-V Summit China 2022 (Aug. 24-26) today announced its 2022 agenda, including keynotes, tutorials, and technical presentations in English language and Chinese language editions. This year’s
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Report on Zero Trust Segmentation.
Report: Orgs with zero-trust segmentation avoid 5 major cyberattacks annually in Venturebeat
A new report by Illumio found that organizations leveraging zero-trust segmentation avert five major…In my work on search engines and recommender systems, I’ve thought a lot about entropy and diversity. I named my first blog, The Noisy Channel, after a seminal idea of Claude Shannon, who introduced entropy to information theory…
Brought to my attention, interesting look at using Virtual characters. Positive use cases emphasized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se6eSBT6D1Y
This full-day workshop, organized by the MIT Media Lab with NTT DATA, was dedicated…Aug. 11, 2022 — Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has purchased a high performance computing system from HPE in a three-year deal for US$35 million. The new system, intended to improve the resilience of Australia’s weather forecasting…
Not too much here, but made me think about the broader problem.
AI Is Transforming How We Bank
By The Information, August 11, 2022
Crypto is far from the only technological innovation causing problems for financial regulators.…The evolution of single machine key-value stores.
From McKinsey;
The data-driven enterprise of 2025
Rapidly accelerating technology advances, the recognized value of data, and increasing data literacy are changing what it means to be “data driven.”
By 2025, smart workflows and…Implications of Amazon's acquisition of iRobot and more:
iRobot CEO Colin Angle on Data Privacy and Robots in the Home In light of Amazon’s recent acquisition, we revisit our 7 September 2017 Q&A with iRobot’s CEO BY EVANEditor…Aug. 9, 2022 — Peter Rose, director of the Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, was recently presented with a team award from the National Institutes of Child Health and
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Considerable advance?
Experiment Could Solve Huge Challenge in Quantum Computing
ScienceAlert
Michelle Starr, August 8, 2022
Scientists at Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences built an ultrafast two-quantum bit (qubit)…Animation and Videogames
University of Montreal
Salle De Presse, July 27, 2022
An animation tool developed by researchers from Canada's Université de Montréal uses bitmap sketches to control the 3D poses…A classic brute-force attack boils down to guessing credentials. In my scenario, though, the perpetrators acted somewhat differently.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the selection of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to lead a $9.25 million, five-year collaborative project in nuclear energy research through the Scientific Discovery through…
Will go to see this example of autonomy.
Kroger expanding new belted self-checkout to 20 Tri-State stores
Calls test of new high tech lanes a success
Kroger says its test of new self scan checkout lanes was a success…Still waiting ...
Where Are The Autonomous Cars?
By Semiconductor Engineering, August 9, 2022
Level 5 vehicles, which are self-driving in all road situations, do not yet exist. Moreover, it’s not clear when that will change.
AreWhile…Despite its importance, content quality is hard to define without devolving into circularity. What we mean by content quality is a measure or collection of measures that represents the content’s value independent of any searcher…
HSINCHU, Taiwan – Aug. 10, 2022 – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC: NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2022: On a consolidated basis, revenue for July 2022 was approximately NT$186.76 billion,…
BOULDER, CO – Haniye Kashgarani, a graduate student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, has been named the winner of the annual student poster competition at the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High…
Good thoughts here, make them work.
August 10, 2022: By Russell W. Goodman, in SupplyChainBrain
Velocity of response and proactivity in risk management are key to meeting supply chain challenges…Argonne National Laboratory announced that the Polaris supercomputer, a 44-petaflops HPE system powered by AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, is now open to the research community. Researchers can apply for computing time through the
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Travis Humble has been named director of the Quantum Science Center headquartered at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The QSC is a multi-institutional partnership spanning industry, academia and government…
A simple C program might print ‘hello world’ on screen: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main() { printf("hello world\n"); return EXIT_SUCCESS; } You can write the equivalent in C++: #include <iostream> #include <stdlib…
Intro to Model-Free and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning By TechTalks, June 21, 2022
Nearly every book on reinforcement learning (RL) contains a chapter that explains the differences between model-free and model-based reinforcement…