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Spying through Push Notifications
From Schneier on Security

Spying through Push Notifications

When you get a push notification on your Apple or Google phone, those notifications go through Apple and Google servers. Which means that those companies can spy...

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 7: Computing for the birds: dawn chorus, birds as data carriers and a Google April Fool (plus a puzzle!)
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 7: Computing for the birds: dawn chorus, birds as data carriers and a Google April Fool (plus a puzzle!)

Welcome to Day 7 of our advent calendar. Yesterday’s post was about Printed Circuit Birds Boards, today’s theme is the Christmas robin redbreast which featuresContinue...

Quantum: Harvard, QuEra, MIT and NIST/University of Maryland Announce Error-Corrected Algorithms on 48 Qubits
From insideHPC

Quantum: Harvard, QuEra, MIT and NIST/University of Maryland Announce Error-Corrected Algorithms on 48 Qubits

BOSTON, December 6, 2023 – Neutral-atom quantum company QuEra Computing today announced what the company said is a quantum computing breakthrough, published inQuantum...

Taking on NVIDIA: AMD Announces Availability of MI300 GPU Accelerators
From insideHPC

Taking on NVIDIA: AMD Announces Availability of MI300 GPU Accelerators

After years of NVIDIA having its dominant way in the GPU AI chip market -- a market that has exploded over the last 12 months with the emergence of generative AI...

Security Analysis of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Election Protocol
From Schneier on Security

Security Analysis of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Election Protocol

Interesting analysis: This paper discusses the protocol used for electing the Doge of Venice between 1268 and the end of the Republic in 1797. We will show that...

From Computational Complexity

Do We Need to Formalize?

Back in the 1990s I explored the system Nuprl for formalizing mathematical proofs. We had a theoretical paper on quickly checking a proof and I wanted to see if...

CCC Responds to OMB RFC on Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of AI Draft Policy
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Responds to OMB RFC on Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of AI Draft Policy

Yesterday, December 5, CCC submitted a response to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s Request for Comments (RFC) on Advancing Governance, Innovation, and...

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 6: patterned bauble: tracing patterns in computing – printed circuit boards, spotting links and a puzzle for tourists
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 6: patterned bauble: tracing patterns in computing – printed circuit boards, spotting links and a puzzle for tourists

Patterned baubles reminded us of printed circuit boards, and a puzzle to do with maps.

How fast can you validate UTF-8 strings in JavaScript?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

How fast can you validate UTF-8 strings in JavaScript?

When you recover textual content from the disk or from the network, you may expect it to be a Unicode string in UTF-8. It is the most common format. Unfortunately...

Nexusflow Unveils Open-source Generative AI Model
From insideHPC

Nexusflow Unveils Open-source Generative AI Model

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Dec. 5,  2023 – Nexusflow, a generative AI company targeting the cybersecurity industry, today announced the release of NexusRaven-V2, a 13-billion...

Micron Announces Shipment of Micron 3500 Client SSD
From insideHPC

Micron Announces Shipment of Micron 3500 Client SSD

BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 05, 2023 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced it is shipping the Micron 3500 NVMe SSD, which leverages its 232-layer NANDMicron...

Deadline Approaching for Nominations for CRA-WP Early Career Awards 
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Deadline Approaching for Nominations for CRA-WP Early Career Awards 

The following was adapted from content originally posted on the CRA-WP website by Lauren Lashlee, Program Associate.    CRA’s Widening Participation Committee (CRA...

The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying
From Schneier on Security

The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap...

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 5: snowman: analog hydraulic computers (aka water computers), digital compression, and a puzzle
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 5: snowman: analog hydraulic computers (aka water computers), digital compression, and a puzzle

We recommend keeping water (and snow) away from devices, but did you know you can make computers out of water?!

Algorithmiq in Quantum Utility Path Demonstration with IBM Quantum
From insideHPC

Algorithmiq in Quantum Utility Path Demonstration with IBM Quantum

Helsinki and Yorktown, Virginia December 4, 2023: Algorithmiq, a scaleup developing quantum algorithms for life sciences, said it has run one of the largest scale...

IBM Quantum Debuts 133-Qubit Processor and Quantum System Two
From insideHPC

IBM Quantum Debuts 133-Qubit Processor and Quantum System Two

Today, at its annual IBM Quantum Summit in New York, the company debuted the 133-qubit Quantum Heron, the first in what IBM said will be a series of utility-scale...

HPC News Bytes 20231204: The New Yorker on NVIDIA, the Open Benchmark Council, Intel and TSMC, Digital Twins for Hydropower
From insideHPC

HPC News Bytes 20231204: The New Yorker on NVIDIA, the Open Benchmark Council, Intel and TSMC, Digital Twins for Hydropower

Here's a sprint (5:16) through the latest HPC -AI news, including: NVIDIA's big feature story in The New Yorker, the Open Benchmark Council's TOP100 lists, Intel...

AI and Trust
From Schneier on Security

AI and Trust

I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely. I trusted...

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 4: Ice skate: detecting neutrinos at the South Pole, figure-skating motion capture, Frozen and a puzzle
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 4: Ice skate: detecting neutrinos at the South Pole, figure-skating motion capture, Frozen and a puzzle

This post is part of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar and we are publishing a small post every day, about computer science, until Christmas Day. This...
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