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Exploding USB Sticks
In case you don’t have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives—actual ones—in USB sticks:
In the port city of Guayaquil…
From insideHPC
Sutharshan Named ORNL Deputy for Operations
March 13, 2023 — Oak Ridge, TN — Balendra Sutharshan has been named chief operating officer for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He will begin serving as ORNL’s deputy...
From Computational Complexity
Problems we assume are hard. Are they?
We think SAT is hard because (1) its NPC, and (2) many years of effort have failed to get it into P. Imagine a world where we didn't have the Cook-Levin Theorem...
From insideHPC
CSC (Home of LUMI) to Host Data Lake for Destination Earth Initiative
The CSC data center in Kajaani, Finland, will host a 30-petabyte data lake for the European Meteorological Satellite Agency EUMETSAT and the Destination Earth initiative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ideal EV Batteries for Automotive
Very nice piece, below a bare intro ... The EV Battery Wish List Which automakers most want what in their ideal electric powertrain? by Lawrence Ulrich in IEEEElectric...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT in Cars?
MS Chat Virtual Assistants in cars?ChatGPT could power voice assistants in General Motors vehiclesThe automaker is reportedly using Microsoft’s Azure cloud service...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?
Safety is yes, means of determining that is the issue. Especially with regard to transportation and related supply chain decisions and risks. Do We Need a National...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Responds to RFI on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan
CCC submitted a response to a Request for Information (RFI) released by Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), National Coordination...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Inspiring Wendy Hall
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London This article is inspired by a keynote talk Wendy Hall gave at the ITiCSE conference in Madrid, 2008. What inspires...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optical Algorithm Simplifies Analog AI Training
Thinking this, possibilities and implications. Optical Algorithm Simplifies Analog AI Training When backpropagation loses its bite, this approach may substitute...
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VR Headset Gives you X-Ray Vision!
Possibilities are considerable in VRworldMIT researchers invented an augmented reality headset that gives humans X-ray vision. The invention, dubbed X-AR, combines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fashion and Generative AI
Did some work in fashion as it related to clothing care, possible connection here. Generative AI: Unlocking the future of fashion McKinseyMarch 8, 2023 | Article...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Barbara Liskov: Byzantine birthdays
You may not think of computers as argumentative, but some of them do bicker quite a lot, and for good reason. They often need to, including to get things right...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 11 2023)
In 1500, China was the largest economy in the world, followed by India and France. The USA did not exist yet. In 1700, 4% of human beings lived in France. In the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
I believe chatbots understand part of what they say. Let me explain.
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder does a good job in comparing the understanding exhibited by chatbot with our understanding of quantum Mechanics, along the way describes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Programming
Will the newest AI automate much/all programming work?CACMmag (@Communications of the ACM) Tweeted:The embrace of #ArtificialIntelligence #tools such as #ChatGPT...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bain & Company and AI
Investigating how key consultants are positioning themselves regarding AI methods. Here is a start. Artificial IntelligenceAI-based technologies and applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Back to Synthetic Data
Have not talked this for sometime, still interesting.What is Synthetic Data? The Good, the Bad, and the UglySharing data can often enable compelling applications...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Trimming spaces from strings faster with SVE on an Amazon Graviton 3 processor
Programmers sometimes need to trim, or remove, characters, such as spaces from strings. It might be a surprising expensive task. In C, the following function is...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid Fishing in the Southeast Pacific
Chinese squid fishing boats are overwhelming Ecuador and Peru. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that Ihere...
From insideHPC