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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 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...
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...
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’, meaningContinue...
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 theBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy Flaw in ChatGPT
Schneier reports on this, as usual his commenters provide thoughtful additional insight. Worh looking at.ChatGPT Privacy FlawOpenAI has disabled ChatGPT’s privacy...
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Materials Discovery
New, lucrative and very interesting spaceArtificial Intelligence for Materials DiscoveryBy Don MonroeCommunications of the ACM, April 2023, Vol. 66 No. 4, Pages...
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...
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Configurable Robots Can Be Mixed, Matched for Tasks in Space
Configurable Robots Can Be Mixed, Matched for Tasks in SpaceACM TECHNEWSBy Interesting EngineeringMarch 22, 2023The Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System could...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?
VIEWPOINTWhere Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?By David Ott, Kenny Paterson, Dennis MoreauCommunications of the ACM, April 2023, Vol. 66...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Talking Concrete
Novel infrastructure idea.'Talking' Concrete Could Help Prevent Traffic Jams, Cut Carbon EmissionsBy Purdue University NewsMarch 16, 2023From beneath a concrete...
From Schneier on Security
Hacks at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023
An impressive array of hacks were demonstrated at the first day of the Pwn2Own conference in Vancouver: On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, security researchers...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
William Wulf, 1939–2023
A great teacher and a great leader Bill Wulf just passed away. We send our best thoughts to his dear wife Anita Jones and the rest of his family. He is greatly...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
What the real Pros say
Here is what some (female) computer scientists and electronic engineers said that they most liked about their job and the subject.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Street talk: Wolfram Announcement
I mentioned the below announcement of being able to plug in WolframAlpha capabilities in ChatGPT. I found the the talk here to be insightful about how language...
From Computational Complexity
The SIGACT Book Review column list of books it wants reviewed
I am posting this for Nick Tran who is the current SIGACT Book Review Editor (before him it was Fred Green for about 6 years, and before him it was me (Bill Gasarch)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Plugins and ChatGPT
Intro below, saw the intro from wolfram. Am inclined to think this is a big deal, Like Apps within searches. Will be exploring this in the coming weeks....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gates Agrees about Importance of Current AI
More agreement about AI advances.Bill Gates: AI is most important tech advance in decadesBy Tom Gerken BBC Technology reporterMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates...
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