From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
The mission of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and...Catherine Gill From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | January 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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The sanctions target Beijing Integrity Technology Group, which U.S. officials say employed workers responsible for the Flax Typhoon attacks...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 7, 2025 at 07:00 AM
By Przemysław Wałęga, Queen Mary University of London Logical reasoning and proof, whether done using math notation or informally in your head, is an importantContinue...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | January 6, 2025 at 03:28 PM
COLLEGE PARK, MD – January 6, 2025 – IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced the completion of its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Qubitekk, Inc., a...Doug Black From insideHPC | January 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
In Jan of 2023 I estabalished the Betty White Award, see here which is given to people who died late in the prior year and hence won't be in the those who we lost...gasarch From Computational Complexity | January 5, 2025 at 03:03 PM
Wearable computing is now increasingly common whether wearing smart watches or clothes that light up. The pioneer of the latter was Japanese artist, Tanaka Atsuko...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | January 5, 2025 at 02:09 PM
I made my first squid post nineteen years ago this week. Between then and now, I posted something about squid every week (with maybe only a few exceptions). There...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 3, 2025 at 05:04 PM
EUV, extreme ultraviolet lithography, is nearly completely associated with the Dutch company ASML, the only maker of EUV machines that are used by TSMC, Intel and...staff From insideHPC | January 3, 2025 at 03:56 PM
Two current exhibitions at the Tate Modern in London that those interesting in technology and art may want to see are “Electric Dreams: Art and Technology before...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | January 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
ShredOS is a stripped-down operating system designed to destroy data.
GitHub page here.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 3, 2025 at 09:46 AM
Italian energy company Eni has officially announced one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers that will be used to to scale up its oil and gas discovery technology...staff From insideHPC | January 2, 2025 at 04:01 PM
BERKELEY, Calif.,– Quantum-classical computing company Rigetti announced the launch of its flagship 84-qubit Ankaa-3 system featuring a hardware redesign. Rigetti...staff From insideHPC | January 2, 2025 at 03:47 PM
Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google’s policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | January 2, 2025 at 03:22 PM
Most strings today in software are Unicode strings. It means that you can include mathematical symbols, emojis and so forth. There are many different versions of...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | January 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Bill's SIGACT Open Problems Column remembering Luca Trevisan is out. I chose the problem of whether Promise-ZPP in P implies Promise-BPP in P, an extension of an...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | January 2, 2025 at 08:30 AM
Alexander Graham Bell was inspired by the deafness of his mother to develop new technologies to help. Lila Harrar, then a computer science student at Queen Mary...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | January 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
H1B visas are back in the news these days. One one hand we have some loud calls for more H1B visas with a claim that US native workers are not up to snuff. Or at...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | December 31, 2024 at 07:32 AM
It’s becoming an organized crime tactic:
Card draining is when criminals remove gift cards from a store display, open them in a separate location, and either record...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | December 31, 2024 at 07:02 AM
Modern-day text in software can be expected to be Unicode. Unicode is stored in two formats: UTF-8 and UTF-16. UTF-16 is an encoding system used by several platforms...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | December 29, 2024 at 01:24 PM
Next time you are in a large crowd, look around you: all those people moving together, and mostly not bumping into each other. How does it happen? Flocks of birds...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | December 29, 2024 at 07:17 AM