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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Lightmatter Announces Passage L200, Co-Packaged Optics for AI
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.– Photonic supercomputing company Lightmatter announced Passage L200, which the company said is the first 3D co-packaged optics (CPO) product...
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Ansys, Baker Hughes, and Oak Ridge Report Supercomputing Record on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced results from the largest commercial Fluent CFD simulation ever run on AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs....
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DARPA Tabs Cerebras and Ranovus for Military and Commercial Platform
AI compute company Cerebras Systems said it has been awarded a new contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a system combining...
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MLCommons Releases MLPerf Inference v5.0 Benchmark Results
Today, MLCommons announced new results for its MLPerf Inference v5.0 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking. TheMLCommons...
From Schneier on Security
Rational Astrologies and Security
John Kelsey and I wrote a short paper for the Rossfest Festschrift: “Rational Astrologies and Security“: There is another non-security way that designers can spend...
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Lumen and Ciena Report 1.2 Tbps Wavelength Service from Denver to Dallas
Lumen Technologies and Ciena recently reported they have established a 1.2 terabit wavelength service trial across 3,050 kilometers (more than 1,800 miles) on Lumen's...
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Optical I/O: Ayar Labs Launches 8 Tbps UCIe Optical Chiplet for AI Scale-Up Architectures
Optical interconnect company Ayar Labs announced the TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet, which Ayar said is the first optical Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe)...
From Computational Complexity
PDQ Shor (?-2025)
PDQ Shor PDQ Shor, Peter Shor's smarter brother, passed away last week. PDQ was a Physicist/Computer Scientist/Mathematician/Astrologer/Psychic at the University...
From Schneier on Security
Cell Phone OPSEC for Border Crossings
I have heard stories of more aggressive interrogation of electronic devices at US border crossings. I know a lot about securing computers, but very little about...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Broadband, by carrier pigeon
There’s a joke, about a Victorian football newspaper reporter, who takes a homing pigeon with him to the match so that he can swiftly return the score to his editor...
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TSMC Holds 2nm Capacity Expansion Ceremony, Volume Production Slated for Second Half of Year
TSMC today held a 2 nanometer (2nm) capacity expansion ceremony at the construction site of Fab 22 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), bringing together...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
California Seeks Feedback on Draft Report Guiding Oversight of AI Frontier Models
On March 18, 2025, the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models released a draft report that could help shape how the state navigates the rapidly...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Music-making mates for Mortimer
Robots are cool. Fact. But can they keep you interested for more than a short time? Over months? Years even? Louis McCallum of Queen Mary University of London tells...
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AI Factory: AMD in $4.9 Billion Acquisition of ZT Systems
On the heels of winning a 30,000 GPU cluster deal with Oracle, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a move into the AI infrastructure arena, reflecting a trend toward...
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E6 Shapes Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2025 — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors power the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E6 Standard...
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Trane Announces Data Center Air-Cooled Chillers
DAVIDSON, N.C., March 27, 2025 – Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), announced the development of two new air-cooled chiller offerings – Magnetic Bearing...
From Schneier on Security
The Signal Chat Leak and the NSA
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who started the now-infamous group chat coordinating a US attack against the Yemen-based Houthis on March 15, is seemingly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching The Writing of Secure Code
One of the great problems of teaching computer science is that there is a limited amount of time to teach and an unlimited amount of things that can be taught....
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Pasqal Selected for 140-Qubit Quantum Computer to Be Hosted at CINECA
March 27, 2025 — Pasqal, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced the signing of the procurement contract with the European High Performance Computing...
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