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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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DOE to Host May 14 Meeting for Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Management and Operating Contract
April 22, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the schedule for an event associated with the competition for the management and operating contract...
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Putin Pushes for Russian National Supercomputing Center
21 April 2025 — According to the Russian news agency AK&M, Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Russian government to consider the creation of aPutin...
From Schneier on Security
Android Improves Its Security
Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting idle for three days. iPhones have had this feature for a while; it’s nice to see Google add it to their...
From insideHPC
JEDEC Collaborates to Release JESD270-4 HBM4 Standard for AI and HPC
ARLINGTON, Va., USA – April 16, 2025 – JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, developer of standards for the microelectronics industry, today announced the publication...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Different High School Computer Science Strands
A recent talk by Bjarne Stroustrup at Stanford has sparked some conversation in the Computer Science Educators Facebook group. The talk itself doesn’t seem to be...
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HPC News Bytes 20250421: Chips and Geopolitical Chess, Intel and FPGAs, Cool Storage, 2nm CPUs in Taiwan and Arizona
Good April morning to you! It's been an active week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (8:43) rundown of recent industry news: Nvidia, AMD and China exportHPC...
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Cadence Announces DDR5 12.8Gbps MRDIMM Gen2 Memory IP System for Cloud AI
SAN JOSE, Calif.— Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced what it said is the industry’s first DDR5 12.8Gbps MRDIMM Gen2 memory IP system solution on the TSMC N3...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Bank holiday bunting appears automatically on the GOV.UK website – thanks to a little program!
This is an updated version of a snippet that appeared previously on this blog. If you’re reading this post today (Monday 21 April 2025) it’s Easter Monday which...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Streamlined iteration: exploring keys and values in C++20
In software, we often use key-value data structures, where each key is unique and maps to a specific value. Common examples include dictionaries in Python, hash...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Robot runners
The first ever half marathon allowing humanoid robots to run against humans was held in Beijing this weekend (April 2025). 12,000 humans ran the event alongside...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Live Colossal Squid Filmed
A live colossal squid was filmed for the first time in the ocean. It’s only a juvenile: a foot long. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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Deloitte Reports on Nuclear Power and the HPC-AI Data Center Energy Gap
Even as the HPC-AI sector cheers on more powerful chips, denser servers, faster fabrics, bigger memory and mammoth, multi-hundreds of billion-dollar AI data centers...
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Registration Open for RMACC HPC Symposium, May 20
BOULDER, CO – Registration is continuing from now through May 16th for the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) 15th annual High Performance Computing...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The CS4FN Easter Egg Hunt
Easter eggs can be chocolate but they are also hidden treasures to be found in games, websites, other software (and now even Lego sets). Especially for Easter we...
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TSMC Reports Q1 YoY Revenue Growth of 42%
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Apr. 17, 2025 — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced consolidated revenue of NT$839.25 billion, net income of NT$361.56 billion...
From Schneier on Security
Age Verification Using Facial Scans
Discord is testing the feature: “We’re currently running tests in select regions to age-gate access to certain spaces or user settings,” a spokesperson for Discord...
From insideHPC
Hammerspace Raises $100M
AI data platform company Hammerspace announced that several venture investors have invested $100 million in growth capital in the company. Altimeter Capital, which...
From Computational Complexity
Eisenhower's Farewell Address
I'm short on time time this week so I thought it would be good to look back, some 64 years ago, to Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address. It calls for balance between...
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NVIDIA: Grace Blackwell GPUs Live on CoreWeave
NVIDIA announced that GPU cloud platform CoreWeave is among the first cloud providers to bring NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems online at scale, with Cohere, IBM andNVIDIA...
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