Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2024
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Female Gonatus Onyx Squid Carrying Her Eggs
Fantastic video of a female Gonatus onyx squid swimming while carrying her egg sack.
From insideHPC
5G-6G: BeammWave Announces Second Customer
Nov. 15, 2024 — Advanced communications technology company BeammWave AB has announced that an undisclosed customer has placed an order on the Advanced Development Platform (ADP1) to evaluate BeammWave’s patented digital beamforming…
From Schneier on Security
Good Essay on the History of Bad Password Policies
Stuart Schechter makes some good points on the history of bad password policies:
Morris and Thompson’s work brought much-needed data to highlight a problem that lots of people suspected was bad, but that had not been studied…From insideHPC
HPC4EI: DOE Announces $3.4M Funding Opportunity and Awards $4M for Energy Innovation Projects
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a $4 million federal investment for 10 projects across 8 states that will harness the processing power of the world’s most powerful supercomputers—and the…
From insideHPC
Flex Acquires Liquid Cooling Company JetCool
Austin, Texas, November 14, 2024 – Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) announced today it has acquired JetCool Technologies, a liquid cooling company for data centers. The acquisition is intended to bolster Flex’s data center and power portfolio…
From insideHPC
Lightmatter and Amkor Technology Partner on 3D Photonics Package
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 14, 2024 — Photonic supercomputing company Lightmatter today announced a strategic partnership with Amkor Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMKR), a provider of semiconductor packaging and test services, to…
From insideHPC
Prepping for SC24: HPC-AI Luminaries on Sessions, Trends and News to Watch for in Atlanta
With an eye toward helping attendees at SC24 maximize their time and to be on the lookout for the key trends, news, sessions and keynotes at the conference, we’ve assembled a trio of industry luminaries to share their insights…
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Learning from Natural Proofs
I had a tough choice for my final favorite theorem from the decade 2015-2024. Runners up include Pseudodeterministic Primes and Hardness of Partial MCSP. But instead in memory of the recently departed Steven Rudich…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visioning Workshop Review: Supporting At-Risk Users Through Responsible Computing
Did you know that LGBTQ+ youth face a higher risk of exposure to potentially harmful interactions on social media than their heterosexual peers? Exposure to such interactions has been linked to negative impacts on their mental…
From insideHPC
NetBrain Updates Platform for AI-Powered Network Operations
BURLINGTON, Mass., November 14, 2024 – NetBrain Technologies, Inc., a provider of no-code network automation and dynamic mapping solutions for hybrid-cloud networks, announced the launch of Next-Gen Release 12 (R12), an update…
From insideHPC
Exascale: Univ. of Maryland Researchers Nominated for Gordon Bell Prize for Extreme Scale LLM Training Using Frontier
Oct. 12, 2024 — A research team led by the University of Maryland has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Prize. The team is being recognized for developing a scalable, distributed training…
From Schneier on Security
New iOS Security Feature Makes It Harder for Police to Unlock Seized Phones
Everybody is reporting about a new security iPhone security feature with iOS 18: if the phone hasn’t been used for a few days, it automatically goes into its “Before First Unlock” state and has to be rebooted.
This is a really…From insideHPC
Eviden Announces BXI v3 Networking Technology
Paris – November 14, 2024 – Eviden, the Atos Group advanced computing business unit, today announces the launch of BXI v3, the third generation of the European scale-out networking technology, designed for artificial intelligence…
From insideHPC
ZutaCore Unveils Waterless AI Factory Design
Nov. 13, 2024, San Jose – ZutaCore, a provider of direct-to-chip, waterless liquid cooling solutions, today announced its participation at the Supercomputing Conference (SC24) where it will be highlighting a waterless AI factory…
From insideHPC
Tenstorrent and LG Electronics Expand Chip Partnership
SEOUL, Nov. 12, 2024 — LG Electronics (LG) and Tenstorrent announces an expanded collaboration that builds on their initial chiplet project to develop System-on-Chips (SoCs) and systems for the global market. Through this partnership…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Participation: Combining AI and ORMS for Better Trustworthy Decision-Making
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share a call for participation in the Combining AI and ORMS for Better Trustworthy Decision Making Bridge Program supported by AAAI and INFORMS. This Bridge Program is being…
From Schneier on Security
Mapping License Plate Scanners in the US
DeFlock is a crowd-sourced project to map license plate scanners.
It only records the fixed scanners, of course. The mobile scanners on cars are not mapped.
The post Mapping License Plate Scanners in the US appeared first on …From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Avoiding loneliness with StudyBuddy
By Klara Brodahl, StudyBuddy and Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London University has always been a place where you make great friends for life. Social media means everyone can easily make as many online friends as they…
From insideHPC
E4S: Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack Discussions and Demos at SC24
Nov. 11, 2024: The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) Project is supported by the US Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing Research Office and is a legacy of Exascale Computing Project (ECP). The packages…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Graduate degrees are overrated
Though I have many brilliant graduate students, I love working with undergraduate students. And I am not at all sure that you should favor people with graduate degrees, given a choice. Many graduate students tend to favor abstraction…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: Council Member Michela Taufer Gives Sneak Peek on Upcoming SuperComputing Panel Discussion
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) spoke with council member Michela Taufer who will be moderating a panel discussion at the 2024 Supercomputing Conference on the future sustainability of AI. Here’s what she had to say…
From Schneier on Security
Criminals Exploiting FBI Emergency Data Requests
I’ve been writing about the problem with lawful-access backdoors in encryption for decades now: that as soon as you create a mechanism for law enforcement to bypass encryption, the bad guys will use it too.
Turns out the same…From insideHPC
Transformative Potential of Confidential Computing to be Explored in SC24 Birds of a Feather Session
Atlanta – Nov. 12, 2024 – Sylabs, in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories, will host a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at SC24 titled Integrating Confidential Computing into High-Performance Cloud Workflows. This
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From insideHPC
Supermicro and Qubrid AI Collaborate on Nvidia GPU-based AI Server Appliances
Powered by Supermicro’s GPU sever hardware, NVIDIA GPUs and Qubrid AI’s AI Controller Software, this on-prem solution empowers businesses to develop, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI and traditional deep learning models with…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20241111: TSMC 2nm Restrictions, AMD-Fujitsu Team on Arm, AMD Passes Intel, US Data Center Green Energy Uptake
With a salute to our service men and women on this Veteran’s Day, here’s a rapid (6:07) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: TSMC grows revenue and faces 2nm restrictions, AMD-Fujitsu to develop Arm superchip…
From insideHPC
Univ. of Sydney Quantum Researchers Report Advance on Error Correction
Nov. 10, 2024 — The University of Sydney has announced that quantum researchers Dominic Williamson and Nouédyn Baspin have developed what the university called “a transformative new architecture for managing errors that emerge…
From insideHPC
Cloudian Announces Support for NVIDIA GPUDirect Acceleration for Object Storage
SAN MATEO, CA – Nov 18, 2024 – Cloudian, the global leader in secure S3-compatible AI data lake platforms, today announced its integration with NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirectÒ Storage technology, delivering breakthrough performance…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Considerations When Using Data from Human Subjects
This blog highlights key points on considerations when using data from human subjects in a recent CRA whitepaper that outlined challenges and examples that computing conferences should address. Here’s what you should know. Using…
From Computational Complexity
Steven Rudich (1961-2024)
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Why is your Internet so slow?
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London. This article was originally published on the CS4FN website. It was also published in our 2023 Advent Calendar. The Internet is now so much a part of life that, unless you are over…