Do you recall my earlier column When Genetic Algorithms Meet Artificial Intelligence? This reflected my discovery that the chaps and chapesses at Algolux are using an evolutionary algorithm approach in their </ … Read More → "Cloud-Based Genetic Algorithms and Computer Vision Applications"
Boo! A scary new variation of the Spectre CPU bug has surfaced, and it may be resistant to the fixes and countermeasures already deployed. Or maybe not.
A band of CS/EE students has Read More → "Spectre Bug Rears Its Head Again"
Perhaps not surprisingly in the light of all the cyber-attacks and data breaches we’ve been seeing recently, the topics of cyber-security, cyber-resiliency, and securing one’s supply chains are at the forefront of our minds.
Several of my own columns have touched these topics in recent months, such as Read More → "High Entropy is the Foundation for High Security"
When most people hear the term “counterfeiting,” their knee-jerk reaction is to think of currency, the counterfeiting of which is as old as the concept of money itself. Around 400 BC, for example, metal coins in Greece were often counterfeited by covering a cheap-and-cheerful material with a thin layer of a more precious metal.
Or take the original American colonies. Throughout northeastern America, Native Americans would employ shell … Read More → "ID for the IoT? We Need the IDoT!"
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature, if you publish it in the manual, right? AMD has taken a “white hat” approach to a possible security risk in its newest Zen 3 processors by publishing a white paper that describes the … Read More → "AMD Details Potential Ryzen Attack Vector"
I once worked for a large computer manufacturer that considered itself to be a “big cheese” in its headquarters’ hometown. For some reason, the folks who donned the undergarments of authority and strode the corridors of power decided to have a blitz on the local media channels — including newspapers, radio, and television — to remind the hoi polloi as to who we were and what we did. … Read More → "Want to Learn AI? But Where to Go?"
