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Details of the Olympic Destroyer APT
Interesting details on Olympic Destroyer, the nation-state cyberattack against the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea.…
From Computational Complexity
William Kruskal's 100th birthday
Today, Oct 10, 2019 is William Kruskal's 100th birthday (he's dead, so no cake. Oh well.) William Kruskal was a great statistician. To honor him we have a guest...
From Schneier on Security
New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS
Kaspersky has a detailed blog post about a new piece of sophisticated malware that it's calling Reductor. The malware is able to compromise TLS traffic by infecting...
From insideHPC
Altair Acquires PollEx Electronic Design Automation Software
Today Altair announced the acquisition of Polliwog Co. Ltd., a high-tech software company based near Seoul, providing EDA software to the rapidly growing electronics...
From insideHPC
Q-CTRL Software to power Bleximo Quantum Accelerators for Business Computing
Today quantum startup Q-CTRL announced a global partnership to power superconducting ‘quantum accelerators’ from Bleximo, a full-stack quantum computing startup...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standardizing Deep Learning Model Deployment
Got this more detailed invite late, and the talk is over, but below you can follow along on slides and talk, see below:Nick Pentreath, IBM , "Standardizing deep...
From Putting People First
Smart City Index that takes citizen engagement into account
A team of researchers from IMD in Switzerland and SUTD in Singapore put together the Smart City Index. For the first time, researchers attempted to assess people...
From insideHPC
ExaNoDe Builds Groundbreaking 3D prototype of Compute Element for Exascale
Today the European ExaNoDe project announced it has built a groundbreaking compute node prototype paving the way to exascale. "In the ExaNoDe project, we have built...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rolling Your Own Neural Network
Seen several of these tutorials now interlaced with all concepts, math and code. This one seems nicely done. When we first played with these in the 80s we wrote...
From insideHPC
Video: Arm as a Viable Architecture for HPC & AI
Dr. Oliver Perks from Arm gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "The ARM architecture has grown in availability and usability for the HPC community in just the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Reinforcement Training Frameworks
Good to see the kind of open source development being done.DeepMind Has Quietly Open Sourced Three New Impressive Reinforcement Learning FrameworksThree new releases...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Michael Backus Alaska Middle School Computer Science Teacher
Every so often I run into a computer science teacher’s work online and ask myself “how have I never heard of this person before?” This week I listened to a podcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Watson? A Significant Part of the Future of AI
Thoughtful piece. Despite recent criticism as not having attained enough, Watson is a genuine accomplishment. We saw it early on and remarked about how itThis...
From insideHPC
Taming the Cost of HPC in the Cloud
This timely article from our friends over at Univa examines methods for reigning in costs for managing HPC in the cloud, specifically moving beyond cloud automation...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior Research Analyst for New Hardware Technologies at Hyperion Research
Hyperion Research is seeking a Senior Research Analyst for New Hardware Technologies in our Job of the Week. "Working collaboratively with the Hyperion Research...
From Schneier on Security
Wi-Fi Hotspot Tracking
Free Wi-Fi hotspots can track your location, even if you don't connect to them. This is because your phone or computer broadcasts a unique MAC address. What distinguishes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Writing Smart Contracts
Now have seen some very contradictory views of how well a 'smart contract' could truly model an actual legal contract, except for the most trivial ones. Maintaining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personalized Games
Much like the general idea, Could it be applied to other kinds of tasks. Could it be used to allocate resources to problems. Connect with the right kindsResearchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standardizing Deep Learning Model Deployment
Tomorrow of interest:Join @MLnick on Oct 10, 8:30am US Eastern (note unusual time) - Nick Pentreath: Principal Engineer, CODAIT (Center for Open-Source Data"Standardizing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming NSF CISE Deadlines
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has some upcoming solicitation deadlines. Check them out...
From The Eponymous Pickle