Communications of the ACM
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November 2024
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Global Entrepreneurship Week (18-24 Nov) – see our new Tech Entrepreneurship resource
It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week next week (18th to 24th November) and to celebrate we’ve put together a resource page (portal) on Tech Entrepreneurs to inspire you. We’ll be adding more people and companies but it currently…
From insideHPC
TSMC Reports October Monthly Revenue Jump of 29.2% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Nov. 8, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for October 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for October 2024 was approximately NT$314.24 billion, an increase of 24.8…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-A-Rama in Des Moines
Squid-A-Rama will be in Des Moines at the end of the month.
How are they doing a…Visitors will be able to dissect squid, explore fascinating facts about the species, and witness a live squid release conducted by local divers.
From Schneier on Security
AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI”
The Open Source Initiative has published (news article here) its definition of “open source AI,” and it’s terrible. It allows for secret training data and mechanisms. It allows for development to be done in secret. Since foris…
From insideHPC
Codee and Do IT Now Announce Automated Code Review Partnership for HPC
Barcelona, Thursday 7th November 2024 – Codee, provider of software developer tools for automated code review and testing for Fortran/C/C++ code, announced a partnership with Do IT Now, a provder of high performance computing…
From insideHPC
MIPS Releases AI-Enabled RISC-V Automotive CPU for ADAS and Autonomous Vehicles
SAN JOSE – November 7, 2024 – MIPS, a developer of IP compute cores, announced today the general availability(GA) launch of the MIPS P8700 Series RISC-V Processor. Designed to meet the data movement demands of advanced automotive…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Wanna Be A Rock Star?
By Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Updated from the archive of 2007 Want to make sure your life turns out the way you want? Want to trade this life for fortune and fame? If you believe post-grunge rock band Nickelback…
From insideHPC
ATTO Technology Introduces HPC and AI Connectivity at SC24
AMHERST, NY, November 5, 2024 — ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader in network and storage connectivity solutions, announces it will show its high-performance storage and network connectivity products and solutions at SC24…
From Schneier on Security
Prompt Injection Defenses Against LLM Cyberattacks
Interesting research: “Hacking Back the AI-Hacker: Prompt Injection as a Defense Against LLM-driven Cyberattacks“:
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being harnessed to automate cyberattacks, making sophisticated exploits…From Schneier on Security
Subverting LLM Coders
Really interesting research: “An LLM-Assisted Easy-to-Trigger Backdoor Attack on Code Completion Models: Injecting Disguised Vulnerabilities against Strong Detection“:
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed code…From Computational Complexity
Higher Education Under Trump
It feels eerie as pretty much everyone seemingly avoided talking about the election. But Trump back in the White House will likely have a profound effect on US Colleges and Universities. Trump is no fan of universities and his…
From insideHPC
IonQ Announces Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results
November 06, 2024 — COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024. “We had yet another banner quarter at IonQ, booking $63.5 million…
From insideHPC
Exascale: Argonne Deploys Aurora for AI-Driven Protein Design
Harnessing AI and exascale supercomputing, a research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has developed a computing framework to speed up the design of new proteins.
The post Exascale: Argonne…
From insideHPC
BullSequana eXascale Interconnect V3: Intelligent Network Management Accelerates GPU Performance in AI-HPC
Introduction Throughout history, large-scale High-Performance Computing (HPC) has been instrumental to life-changing innovations. More recently, it has enabled disruptive technological advancements, laying the foundation for
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Supporting the Research Community and the Peer Review Process
When you hear supporting the research community and the peer review process, what do you think? Our recent CRA whitepaper published in July outlined key points for conferences to consider. Here’s what you should know. Encouraging…
From Schneier on Security
IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet
Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in “highly evasive” password spraying. Not sure about the “highly evasive” part; the techniques seem basically what you get in a distributed …
From insideHPC
Quantum: D-Wave Reports Calibration of 4,400+ Qubit Processor
PALO ALTO, Calif. – November 6, 2024 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a quantum computing systems, software and services company, today announced that it has completed the calibration and benchmarking of a 4,400+ qubit Advantage2…
From insideHPC
DOE Issues 2 $6M System Science Funding Opportunities
Nov. 5, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Program announced its interest in receiving applications for research in Environmental System Science (ESS). The deadline for pre-applications…
From insideHPC
Tenstorrent Deploys Arteris Network-on-Chip IP
CAMPBELL, Calif. – Nov. 5, 2024 – Arteris, Inc. (Nasdaq: AIP), a provider of system IP designed to accelerates system-on-chip (SoC) creation, today announced Tenstorrent has licensed its network-on-chip (NoC) IP for on-chip connectivity…
From Schneier on Security
AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities
I’ve been writing about the possibility of AIs automatically discovering code vulnerabilities since at least 2018. This is an ongoing area of research: AIs doing source code scanning, AIs finding zero-days in the wild, and everything…
From insideHPC
CMG Targets Faster Reservoir Simulation with Nvidia
CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 04, 2024 — Computer Modelling Group Ltd. (TSX: CMG) today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to further develop optimize CMG subsurface simulation solutions for increased speed, performance, and
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From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20241104: India Rising with AI, HBM an HPC-AI Bottleneck, Novel Accelerator Architectures, CHIPS Act for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
A happy first Monday of November to you! The world of HPC-AI was notably active last week, here’s a rapid (7:36) run through: India seen as a rising tech power, High Bandwidth Memory in short supply, news from the novel accelerator…
From insideHPC
Report: US Outpacing Europe for Data Center Clean Energy Procurement
Nov. 4, 2024: According to a report from S&P Global Commodity Insights, the rising energy demands of global data centers are driving shifts toward renewable power sourcing with US data centers accounting for half of total US
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From Schneier on Security
Sophos Versus the Chinese Hackers
Really interesting story of Sophos’s five-year war against Chinese hackers.
From Computational Complexity
A new Mersenne Prime Has Been Found. When will we find the next one?
(Lance posted on the search for Mersenne primes in 2006 after a new one was discovered. I will comment on his post later.)
A Mersenne Prime is a prime of the form \(2^n-1\) where n is a natural number. One can show that n must…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The illusion of good software design
By Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London When disasters involving technology occur, human error is often given as the reason, but even experts make mistakes using poor technology. Rather than blame the person, human error…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA New England Conference 2024–Exhibit Hall
Today I was able to attend the 2024 CSTA New England conference. There were 14 exhibits at the conference and I spent some time with several of them. One of the images below shows the list of conference sponsors. It was great…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Having fun with modern C++
Recent versions of the C++ language (C++20 and C++23) may allow you to change drastically how you program in C++. I want to provide some fun examples. Thanks to the integration of the features from the popular fmt library, it…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sculpture in Massachusetts Building
Great blow-up sculpture.
From insideHPC
QC Ware Announces Return of Q2B Conference
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 1, 2024 QC Ware, a quantum and quantum-inspired software and services company, announced the 8th edition of its flagship event, Q2B (Quantum to Business) Silicon Valley. Q2B will take place at the Santa…