Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2025
From Schneier on Security
CISA Identifies Five New Vulnerabilities Currently Being Exploited
Of the five, one is a Windows vulnerability, another is a Cisco vulnerability. We don’t have any details about who is exploiting them, or how.
News article. Slashdot thread.
From insideHPC
Spanish Government Announces €67M Investment in Multiverse Computing
The Spanish government announced Tuesday it will make a co-investment of 67 million euros in San Sebastian-based Multiverse Computing, developer of software inspired by quantum computing that allows AI models to be compressed…
From insideHPC
Penguin Solutions Expands its AI Management Software Platform and Launches AI Service
Milpitas, Calif. – March 4, 2025 – Penguin Solutions, Inc. (Penguin Solutions; Nasdaq: PENG) today announced the expansion of its ICE ClusterWare software platform, (formerly Scyld ClusterWare) with multi-tenancy support, streamlined…
From Schneier on Security
Trojaned AI Tool Leads to Disney Hack
This is a sad story of someone who downloaded a Trojaned AI tool that resulted in hackers taking over his computer and, ultimately, costing him his job.
From insideHPC
TSMC to Invest $100B in 3 New U.S. Advanced Fabs, Packaging, R&D
TSMC today said it will expand its investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. by an additional $100 billion. Building on the company’s ongoing $65 billion investment in its advanced chip fabs in Phoenix, TSMC…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20250303: DOGE and Fears at U.S. Science Agencies, Cat Qubits for AWS Quantum, GPUs vs. ASICs for AI Compute
A happy start to March to you! We offer a quick (8:28) run through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: DOGE-led government layoffs and funding disruptions at U.S. science agencies, AWS quantum cat qubits, GPUs versus…
From The Noisy Channel
ChatGPT, Are You Just Telling Me What I Want to Hear?
These days, the Turing Test — which Turing originally called the “imitation game” — feels hopelessly outdated. With deepfakes and AI-generated content becoming increasingly sophisticated, we struggle to distinguish humans from…
From Computational Complexity
Karp recently turned 90 but there was no conference to celebrate that. Which numbers do we use and why?
Karp turned 90 in January of 2025. I searched to see if there is a 90th Birthday Conference for him. I did not find one (is there one?). For which years do we have celebratory birthday conferences?
Here are some conferencesEric…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Maria Cunitz: astronomer and algorithmic thinker
When did women first contribute to the subject we now call Computer Science: developing useful algorithms, for example? Perhaps you would guess Ada Lovelace in the Victorian era so the mid 1800s? She corrected one of CharlesContinue…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you open 1000 files?
Jarred Sumner, the main author of the Bun JavaScript engine, commented a few days ago on X that opening many files on macOS could be slow due to thread contention: “your $5,000 computer is only capable of opening 1 file at aContinue…