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CCC Council Member Nominations Open
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Council Member Nominations Open

The mission of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and...

US Treasury Department Sanctions Chinese Company Over Cyberattacks
From Schneier on Security

US Treasury Department Sanctions Chinese Company Over Cyberattacks

From the Washington Post: The sanctions target Beijing Integrity Technology Group, which U.S. officials say employed workers responsible for the Flax Typhoon attacks...

A handshaking puzzle
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

A handshaking puzzle

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...

Quantum: IonQ Completes Acquisition of Qubitekk
From insideHPC

Quantum: IonQ Completes Acquisition of Qubitekk

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...

From Computational Complexity

The Betty White Award for 2024

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...

Tanaka Atsuko: an electric dress
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Tanaka Atsuko: an electric dress

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...

Friday Squid Blogging: Anniversary Post
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Anniversary Post

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...

LLNL to Lead Research on Advancing Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
From insideHPC

LLNL to Lead Research on Advancing Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography

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...

Electric Dreams and Solid Light at the Tate Modern
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Electric Dreams and Solid Light at the Tate Modern

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...

ShredOS
From Schneier on Security

ShredOS

ShredOS is a stripped-down operating system designed to destroy data. GitHub page here.

Eni Officially Unveils €100M HPC6 Supercomputer for Exploration and Decarbonization
From insideHPC

Eni Officially Unveils €100M HPC6 Supercomputer for Exploration and Decarbonization

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...

Rigetti Launches 84-Qubit Ankaa-3 Quantum System
From insideHPC

Rigetti Launches 84-Qubit Ankaa-3 Quantum System

BERKELEY, Calif.,– Quantum-classical computing company Rigetti announced the launch of its flagship 84-qubit Ankaa-3 system featuring a hardware redesign. Rigetti...

Google Is Allowing Device Fingerprinting
From Schneier on Security

Google Is Allowing Device Fingerprinting

Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google’s policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback.

How does your URL parser handle Unicode?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

How does your URL parser handle Unicode?

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...

From Computational Complexity

My Drunken Theorem

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...

My first Signs
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

My first Signs

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...

H1B AI and the Future of Computer Science education
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

H1B AI and the Future of Computer Science education

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...

Gift Card Fraud
From Schneier on Security

Gift Card Fraud

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...

Efficient In-Place UTF-16 Unicode Correction with ARM NEON
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Efficient In-Place UTF-16 Unicode Correction with ARM NEON

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...

Join the crowd with swarm intelligence
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Join the crowd with swarm intelligence

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...
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