Communications of the ACM
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February 2024
From Schneier on Security
AIs Hacking Websites
New research:
LLM Agents can Autonomously Hack Websites
Abstract: In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly capable and can now interact with tools (i.e., call functions), read documents, and recursively…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM Names 13 Women as Fellows for Contributions to Computing
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 68 Fellows for transformative contributions to computing science and technology. In this article, we are highlighting 13 women who were selected by their peers for groundbreaking…
From insideHPC
IonQ Achieves Ion-Photon Entanglement for Quantum Networks
COLLEGE PARK, MD – February 22, 2024 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced it has generated photons entangled with ions repeatedly and reproducibly, creating a quantum state which allows future quantum…
From insideHPC
Registration Is Open for ISC 2024 in Hamburg
ISC 2024, the International Supercomputing Conference to be held at the Congress Center in Hamburg from Sunday, May 12 to Thursday, May 16, has announced that registration is now open. Early bird rates are available until Wednesday…
From Schneier on Security
New Image/Video Prompt Injection Attacks
Simon Willison has been playing with the video processing capabilities of the new Gemini Pro 1.5 model from Google, and it’s really impressive.
Which means a lot of scary new video prompt injection attacks. And remember, given…From insideHPC
In-Memory Computing Could Be the Inference Breakthrough AI Needs
[CONTRIBUTED THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ARTICLE] In-memory computing promises to revolutionize AI inference. Given the rapid adoption of generative AI, it makes sense to pursue a new approach to reduce cost and power consumption by
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Past, Present, and Future of Computing and Healthcare
CCC has a long history of engaging in topics at the intersection of health and computing, from the Computing and Healthcare workshop in 2012, to the Aging in Place workshop in 2014, to the Sociotechnical Interventions for Health…
From insideHPC
Exascale: Bringing Engineering and Scientific Acceleration to Industry
At SC23, held in Denver, Colorado, last November, members of ECP’s Industry and Agency Council, comprised of U.S. business executives, government agencies, and independent software vendors, reflected on how ECP and the move to…
From insideHPC
NSF Announces $12M Funding Opportunity to Lower Latencies for Wireless Networks
Feb. 212, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation published a new funding opportunity designed to bring together innovators in wireless communications to develop and validate low-latency communications technologies that have…
From insideHPC
Cadence and Intel Foundry Partner on EMIB Packaging for Heterogeneous Integration
Feb. 21, 2024 — EDA software company Cadence and Intel Foundry have collaborated to develop an integrated advanced packaging flow utilizing Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology to address the complexity in…
From insideHPC
Arm Announces New Neoverse Compute Subsystems
Arm today announced two new Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) built on new Neoverse IP for the purpose of “enabling the AI infrastructure on Arm,” according to the company. The Neoverse CSS V3, for the high-performance V-series…
From Computational Complexity
Sumchecks and Snarks
Last summer as I lamented that my research didn't have real world implications, one of the comments mentioned the sumcheck protocol used for zero-knowledge SNARKs. I tried to figure out the connection back then but got lost in…
From insideHPC
Virtus Open AI-Ready Data Center in Buckinghamshire
LONDON – 19 February, 2024] VIRTUS Data Centres, part of the ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Group, has announced plans for a new data centre campus that will be built on a recently acquired 50 acre freehold plot in Saunderton…
From insideHPC
Arcitecta Unveils Global Data Transfer Capabilities
MELBOURNE & SYDNEY– February 19, 2024 – Arcitecta, a data management software company, announced enhancements to its Mediaflux Livewire offering that address the challenges of transmitting data over low-bandwidth and unreliable…
From BLOG@CACM
Interview Answers That are Not Going to Help You
Don't try to impress me with big words.
From Schneier on Security
Details of a Phone Scam
First-person account of someone who fell for a scam, that started as a fake Amazon service rep and ended with a fake CIA agent, and lost $50,000 cash. And this is not a naive or stupid person.
The details are fascinating. And…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Shaping the Future of AI Research and Education with the NAIRR: Respond to the NAIRR RFI
On January 24th, 2024, the NSF’s National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) working group released a Request for Information to, “gather current and anticipated research and education use cases for the NAIRR Pilot…
From insideHPC
UCSD and CEA-Leti Paper: DC-DC Converter Unifies Power Switches on a Single Chip
SAN DIEGO and GRENOBLE, France – Feb. 20, 2024 – University of California San Diego and CEA-Leti scientists report they have developed a ground-breaking piezoelectric-based DC-DC converter that unifies all power switches onto…
From insideHPC
IQM Quantum Reports Benchmarks on 20-Qubit System
Espoo, Finland, 20th February 2024 – IQM Quantum Computers announced it has achieved its latest benchmarks measured on its 20-qubit quantum computer. Among the system-level benchmarks IQM obtained: Quantum Volume (QV) of
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From insideHPC
Samsung Collaborates with Arm on Cortex-X CPU
SAN JOSE, Feb 20, 2024 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced a collaboration to deliver Arm Cortex-X CPU developed on Samsung Foundry’s Gate-All-Around (GAA) process technology. This initiative is built on a partnership…
From Schneier on Security
Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools
Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities.
From their report:
In collaboration with OpenAI, we are sharing threat intelligence…From insideHPC
Accelerated HPC for Energy Efficiency with AWS and NVIDIA
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Many industries are starting to run HPC in the cloud. Find out how GPU-accelerated compute, from AWS and NVIDIA, is helping organizations run more HPC workloads and AI/ML jobs faster, in a more energy…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Measuring energy usage: regular code vs. SIMD code
Modern processor have fancy instructions that can do many operations at one using wide registers: SIMD instructions. Intel and AMD have 512-bit registers and associated instructions under AVX-512. You expect these instructions…
From Schneier on Security
EU Court of Human Rights Rejects Encryption Backdoors
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that breaking end-to-end encryption by adding backdoors violates human rights:
Seemingly most critically, the [Russian] government told the ECHR that any intrusion on private lives…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Designing robots that care (plus links to related careers)
An article from Nicola Plant about ways of making social robots more sociable which links to a related EPSRC project about a tablet-based AI tool for people with dementia. For those interested in computing-related careers there…
From Computational Complexity
ChatGPT thinks Graph Isomorphism has real applications. Is it right?
Lance did a post on Babai's result on Graph Isomorphism (see here). I then did a post asking if Graph Isomorphism has real applications (see here). Lance proofread my post (There were some typos! Really!) and then he was inspired…
From insideHPC
Pawsey Adds NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform for R&D Simulations
SYDNEY—SCA2024—Feb. 19, 2024—NVIDIA today announced that Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre will add the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum platform accelerated by NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips to its National Supercomputing…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
AI Debuggers?
A meme was posted (by Doug Peterson I believe) asking why if the computer knows there is a semi colon missing that the computer doesn’t add it? It’s a good question and I think it gets asked pretty often. The answer is that the…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
New Methods Solve Old Problems
Really old ones, in this case Ben Cohen writes the “Science of Success” column for The Wall Street Journal. It is about what makes people, teams and ideas work out in business, culture, and beyond. His recent one was about Luke…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Vegan Squid-Ink Pasta
It uses black beans for color and seaweed for flavor.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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