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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 Geeking with Greg
Are ad-driven business models bad?
There's been a lot of discussion that ad-driven business models are inherently exploitative and anti-consumer. I think that's both wrong and not a helpful way to...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Susan Kare: Icon Draw
Graphical User Interfaces completely changed the way we used computers. A key to their success were clear and simple icons that had clear meanings. They were thanks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass is Over
Too bad, tried it and it was nicely done. Is the category over for now? Has to be a place for this. Google Glass is finally shattered in Popsci10 years after...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security in Cyberspace
Considerable piece in Fraunhofer mag, intro belowMore security in cyberspaceWeb special Fraunhofer magazine 2.2022The invasion of Ukraine shows that fighting is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts from Land to Sea with Ease
Mobile robotics in multiple domains.ACM TECHNEWSResearchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts from Land to Sea with EaseBy Carnegie Mellon University, March 21, 2023...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computers May Finally Have Practical Use
A means to generate truly random numbers for cryptologyACM TECHNEWSQuantum Computers May Finally Have Practical UseBy New Scientist, March 24, 2023Google's Sycamore...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Creating Batteries Out of Squid Cells
This is fascinating: “When a squid ends up chipping what’s called its ring tooth, which is the nail underneath its tentacle, it needs to regrow that tooth very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Plugins to be Added to ChatGPT, to Create a Platform
Announcement relates to previous message on Wolfram Plugins, but promises more yet.OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a platform overnight with addition of plugins in Venturebeat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does it Mean to be Smart in an Age of AI
Excerpt from McKinsey Complete video at the link.Author Talks: In the ‘age of AI,’ what does it mean to be smart?March 16, 2023 | InterviewAs artificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram can Plug into GPT
Saw this hinted at a while back. Wolfram Alpha has had unique analytic capabilities for some time, now you can link these to ChatGPT. Via a plugin. Apparently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Security Issues in AI Emerge
There seems to have been an urge to get some of these systems out before securing them.ChatGPT bug leaked users' conversation histories in the BBCOpenAI launched...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ML Physics Platform NVIDIA Modulus is Open
New things out of NVIDIA Resources, Fascinating, Sample Uses?Machine Learning Platform NVIDIA Modulus Is Now Open SourceBy Bhoomi Gadhia, Ram Cherukuri and Kristen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI being used to cherry-pick organs for transplant
AI being used to cherry-pick organs for transplantBy Duncan MacRae | March 2, 2023 | MarketingTech in ArtificialIntelligenceDuncan is an award-winning editorA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wave of Stealthy China Cyberattacks Hits U.S., Private Networks, Google Says
Wave of Stealthy China Cyberattacks Hits U.S., Private Networks, Google SaysBy The Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2023China has routinely denied hacking into businesses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Persistent Computing and Virtual Worlds
Worked a number of virtual world projects, never considered them persistent computing. Useful thought.Yu Yuan on Building A Persistent Virtual World The IEEEDespite...
From insideHPC
QuEra Partnering with NERSC on Quantum Evaluation
Boston, March 23, 2023 – Quantum computing company QuEra Computing today announced a partnership with the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center giving...
From insideHPC
Interview: Ansys Talks CAD/CAE in the Cloud and Ansys Gateway Powered by AWS
[SPONSORED GUEST INTERVIEW] In this interview with Jane Trenaman, vice president of portfolio product management at Ansys, she discusses the growing importance...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Emerging Election Technologies Enhancing Integrity, Transparency, and Confidence” AAAS Panel Recap
Elections that are safe, secure, and verifiable by the public are an essential part of every democratic government. There have been public outcries for changes...
From Computational Complexity