Alexandre Keledjian @dervishe@mastodon.sdf.org

oh oh: Meet the TSP :
"Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP) is the world’s first architecture to achieve this feat of performing 1 Peta or 1 quadrillion operations or 1e15 ops/s. Groq’s new architecture can also perform up to 250 trillion floating-point operations per second (FLOPS)."
"TSP architecture is supported by both traditional and new machine learning models. It can be deployed on both x86 and non-x86 systems."
https://fossbytes.com/chip-architecture-deliver-1-quadrillion-operations-per-second/

Awesome OSINT
"Using Flight Tracking For Geolocation – Quiztime 30th October 2019":
https://nixintel.info/osint/using-flight-tracking-for-geolocation-quiztime-30th-october-2019/

Ça y est, après une longue gestation, la nouvelle version de notre site web est en ligne: https://www.lespetitsdebrouillards.org
Pas de tracker, pas de js, https et accessible
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That's it, the new version of our website: https://www.lespetitsdebrouillards.org
enojy it

"The Trump administration's nominee to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency repeatedly said Thursday he doesn't know the reasons behind climate change, despite his agency often being in the position of responding to the crisis' impacts.": https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/14/politics/fema-climate-change-pete-gaynor/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&utm_content=2019-11-16T19%3A33%3A04&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social

12 minutes de bonheur, ou Odoul se prend une branlée de haut vol mémorable au conseil régional de Bourgogne, Franche-Comté...
https://www.info-chalon.com/articles/2019/11/15/41129/CONSEIL-REGIONAL-BOURGOGNE-FRANCHE-COMTE-La-cinglante-mise-au-point-de-Jerome-Durain-en-direction-de-Julien-Odoul-sur-l-Affaire-du-voile

"NSA Cybersecurity Boss Anne Neuberger on What Keeps Her Up at Night"
"At WIRED25, the NSA's Anne Neuberger talked election security, low-orbit satellites, and weaponized autonomous drones."
https://www.wired.com/story/anne-neuberger-national-security-agency-wired25/

*cough cough cough* Here we are, where is the exit to this world ?
"A bill that passed the Ohio House of Representatives this week would force public schools to accept scientifically incorrect answers if those answers align with the student’s religion."
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/new-law-will-allow-religious-public-school-students-in-ohio-to-give-scientifically-incorrect-answers

Found on twitter 👌 😂
#ML

"French students who wend visiting Fukushima took a considerably higher dose not only during their flight to Tokyo but also at the airport and French Embassy security checks"

https://twitter.com/PROUSTEric1/status/1191476788163207169?s=20

"Breaking: Private Equity company acquires .Org registry"
"Obviously, we are disturbed by the timing of this transaction and how it reflects on the decision by ICANN to lift the price caps. While we all as registrars will be affected by this sale, the biggest losers will be our customers and all other .org holders who are sure to see their renewal prices increase over time."
https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/13/breaking-private-equity-company-acquires-org-registry/

meet tpm.fail:
"They are practical. A local adversary can recover the ECDSA key from Intel fTPM in 4-20 minutes depending on the access level. [...] these attacks can be performed remotely on fast networks, by recovering the authentication key of a virtual private network (VPN) server in 5 hours."
"Intel upgraded their fTPM firmware to fix the reported vulnerabilities. STMicroelectronics issued a new TPM chip and we have verified that it is resistant against TPM-FAIL." http://tpm.fail/

"IPAS: NOVEMBER 2019 INTEL PLATFORM UPDATE (IPU)": https://blogs.intel.com/technology/2019/11/ipas-november-2019-intel-platform-update-ipu/

"Soldiers with top-secret clearances say they were forced to use an app that could endanger them":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/11/12/soldiers-with-top-secret-clearances-were-forced-use-an-app-that-could-endanger-them-they-say/

"Google reveals ‘Project Nightingale’ after being accused of secretly gathering personal health records":
"Google secretly gathered millions of patient records across 21 states on behalf of a health care provider, [...]. Neither the provider’s doctors nor patients were made aware of the effort, according to the report."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/11/20959771/google-health-records-project-nightingale-privacy-ascension

"Why the fuck was I breached?" 😂 The website where you can read several short statements about security breaches: https://whythefuckwasibreached.com/

Very interesting 6 papers series about History of Natural Language Processing:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/history+of+natural+language+processing
The 3rd one about Shannon and Markov work:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/andrey-markov-and-claude-shannon-built-the-first-language-generation-models

"The Spy Who Kept the Cold War From Boiling Over": "Double agent Dmitri Polyakov was one of the Cold War’s greatest spies—and likely the most damaging mole in the history of Soviet intelligence."
https://www.history.com/news/cold-war-soviet-spy-dmitri-polyakov

"Details on downed drone to be revealed after full retrieval of its wreckage: Army chief": https://theiranproject.com/blog/2019/11/09/details-on-downed-drone-to-be-revealed-after-full-retrieval-of-its-wreckage-army-chief/

"Christian Ude (above) speaks in a new interview about what Microsoft did in Munich and elsewhere in Europe in order to undermine GNU/Linux and impose Microsoft Windows on everybody, together with all the spyware Microsoft provides for it (likely violation of privacy laws)"
http://techrights.org/2019/11/09/christian-ude-on-microsoft/

·Five International Crises That Nearly Led To Nuclear War·: https://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/03/12/close-calls-incidents-that-nearly-led-to-nuclear-war/
#coldwar #history