Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2024
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Baby Colossal Squid
This video might be a juvenile colossal squid.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From insideHPC
CEA-Leti Reports 3-Layer Integration, Progress toward AI-Embedded CMOS Image Sensors
DENVER – May 31, 2024 – CEA-Leti scientists have reported three projects at ECTC 2024 that they say are steps to enabling CMOS image sensors (CIS) that can exploit image data to perceive a scene, understand the situation and
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From Schneier on Security
How AI Will Change Democracy
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to predict that artificial intelligence will affect every aspect of our society. Not by doing new things. But mostly by doing things that are already being done by humans, perfectly competently…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Quickly checking whether a string needs escaping
In software, we often represent strings by surrounding them with quotes ("). What happens if the string itself contains quotes? We then need to escape the string. For example, the quote character (") or the backlash character…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Never reason from the results of a sampling profiler
In the quest for software optimization, a trusty companion is the sampling profiler, a tool available in most programming languages. These profilers work unobtrusively, taking snapshots of the program’s state and recording the…
From insideHPC
Lenovo and Cisco Announce AI Partnership
May 30, 2024 – Lenovo and Cisco today unveiled a partnership intended to deliver fully integrated infrastructure and networking solutions designed to accelerate digital transformation for businesses of all sizes. The two companies…
From insideHPC
Quantum: Photonic Demonstrates Distributed Entanglement between Modules
VANCOUVER, BC, May 30, 2024—Photonic Inc., a distributed quantum computing in silicon company, today announced what the company said is a milestone on the path to commercial quantum systems. While many existing quantum architectures…
From insideHPC
Eviden to Deliver Supercomputer for University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Paris - May 30, 2024 - Eviden today announces that it has been selected by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) to supply the university with a new supercomputer for its Regional Computing Center ROMEO ....
The post…
From insideHPC
Ultra Accelerator Link Group for Data Center AI Connectivity Formed: AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft
BEAVERTON, Ore.– AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft today announced they have aligned to develop a new industry standard dedicated to advancing high-speed and low latency…
From Schneier on Security
Supply Chain Attack against Courtroom Software
No word on how this backdoor was installed:
A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a hidden backdoor that maintained persistent communication with a …From insideHPC
Report: New ASML Machines Could Produce Denser, Cheaper Advanced Chips
ASML, whose chip manufacturing machines produce advanced microprocessors used for HPC and AI, says it has set a new chipmaking density record with its new High-NA machine, breaking the previous record set only two months ago.…
From insideHPC
Hitachi Vantara Announces Block Storage Appliance for Virtual Storage Platform One Portfolio
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – May 29, 2024 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced the launch of a block storage appliance as part of its…
From insideHPC
Storage Company Xinnor Joins Arm Partner Program
May 29, 2027 — Xinnor, a provider of high-performance data storage solutions, announced its inclusion in the Arm Partner Program. This collaboration is intended to place Xinnor among a range of industry leaders to enhance its…
From insideHPC
Riverlane Partners with Alice & Bob on Quantum Error Correction
Cambridge, Paris, Boston, 29th May: Quantum error correction technology company Riverlane and fault tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob have signed an agreement to work on the integration of Riverlane’s quantum error…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
A kaleidoscope of celebrations across the globe
In recent months, ACM Women across the globe have been celebrating women’s achievements in their respective regions: North America (ACMW-NA), Europe (ACM WE) and ACM-W India. In this blog article, we share with you an overview…
From insideHPC
Classiq and HPE Collaborate on Quantum-HPC Integration
Not until the ISC 2024 conference earlier this month had we heard that HPE is active in quantum computing — since then, we’ve heard they’re active in two ways. Today, quantum software company Classiq announced it has developed…
From Computational Complexity
Double Digit Delights
It started with a post from Fermat's Library.
My immediate…132 is the sum of all the 2-digit numbers made from its digits. It is the smallest such number. pic.twitter.com/hrByAXbr51
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) May 26, 2024
From Schneier on Security
Privacy Implications of Tracking Wireless Access Points
Brian Krebs reports on research into geolocating routers:
Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their…From The Noisy Channel
Bags of Queries as Sparse Document Representations
There is a duality between search queries and indexed documents: we can model a query as a bag of documents and a document as a bag of queries. This duality offers a way to visualize and frame the relationship between intents…
From insideHPC
Simr (Formerly UberCloud) Announces SimOps for Product Development
LOS ALTOS, Calif. – Simr, formerly known as UberCloud, has unveiled Simulation Operations Automation (SimOps), making best practices in computer simulations implemented by the majority of the design engineers at three of the
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
3 current societal challenges where computational systems fit
Computer science has emerged as a transformative force shaping virtually every aspect of modern society, profoundly impacting how we approach and tackle societal challenges. As we navigate the intricate interaction between technology…
From Schneier on Security
Lattice-Based Cryptosystems and Quantum Cryptanalysis
Quantum computers are probably coming, though we don’t know when—and when they arrive, they will, most likely, be able to break our standard public-key cryptography algorithms. In anticipation of this possibility, cryptographers…
From Computational Complexity
National BBQ day vs World Quantum Day
After my post on different holiDAYS, here, such as Talk like a Pirate Day, and Raegan Revor day, two other Days were brought to my attention
1) Lance emailed me about National BBQ day, which is May 16. See here
2) While at a Quantum…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 25 2024)
Artificial intelligence is far more efficient at producing content than human beings, as far as carbon emissions go. Human brains got larger by over 5% between 1930 and 1970. Replacing plastics by ‘environment friendly’ alternatives…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dana Squid Attacking Camera
Fantastic footage of a Dana squid attacking a camera at a depth of about a kilometer.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines…From insideHPC
atNorth Wins Colocation Provider of the Year and Digital Infrastructure Project of the Year
Reykjavík, Iceland – May 24th, 2024 – Nordic colocation, HPC and AI service provider atNorth announced it has been awarded the Colocation Provider of the Year award at the Electrical Review & Data Centre Review Awards. atNorth…
From Schneier on Security
On the Zero-Day Market
New paper: “Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market“:
Abstract: Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have seen a global market emerge for ready-made software that…From insideHPC
Agnostiq Introduces AI Model Training and Serving Capabilities in Covalent Platform
TORONTO — May 23, 2024 — Agnostiq today announced an update to Covalent, its advanced computing platform. With the release of new capabilities called Function Serve, Covalent becomes an enterprise-grade solution for AI development…
From insideHPC
IBM, HPE and Quantum Corp. Report LTO Tape Capacity Shipments Grew 3.14% in 2023
SILICON VALLEY, Calif., May 21, 2024 – The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise , International Business Machines Corporation and Quantum Corporation, today released their annual tape media…
From insideHPC
DDN and Ooredoo Form AI Digital Transformation Partnership
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – May 23, 2024 – AI and multi-cloud data management company DDN today announced a partnership with Ooredoo, a telecommunications operator and information and communications technology (ICT) provider. Through…