Computer science professor Moshe Y. Vardi is the Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM. And he’s concerned about the state of cybersecurity today: In 2017, I wrote: “So here we are, 70 years into the computer age and after three ACM Turing Awards in the area of cryptography (but Read more…
“Auto industry insiders have waxed poetic about the safety benefits of the ‘software-defined vehicle’ — which also enables revenue-boosting data collection and subscriptions that make it safer to be an auto executive too,” writes Wired. “Less talked about are the consequences of computerized cars at the auto shop.” Fixing complex Read more…
As NPR has reported, machines need clear rules in order to function, and it’s hard for them to figure out what exactly is going on in those messy piles That’s not to say that it’s completely impossible. University of California, Berkeley professor Pieter Abbeel spent years teaching a robot how Read more…
“Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it.” — Alex Schure
The Biden administration is exploring the possibility of new export controls that would limit China’s access to some of the most powerful emerging computing technologies, according to people familiar with the situation. The potential plans, which are in an early stage, are focused on the still-experimental field of quantum computing, Read more…
RedMonk has released its latest quarterly rankings of popular programming languages, arguing that “The idea is not to offer a statistically valid representation of current usage, but rather to correlate language discussion and usage in an effort to extract insights into potential future adoption trends.” Their methodology? “We extract language Read more…
Hardcore overclocker Elmor “officially broke the CPU frequency world record with Intel’s brand-new Core i9-13900K 24-core processor,” reports Tom’s Hardware — by hitting “a staggering 8.812GHz using liquid nitrogen cooling, dethroning the 8-year reigning champion, the FX-8370, by 90MHz.” That’s right; it took eight years for a new CPU architecture Read more…