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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 …
From insideHPC
With Accelerator SOC, South Korean Institute Says Country on Track to Become 5th HPC Manufacturer
The ETRI said that after its commercialization, this technology "will be a game-changer for Korea to become the world’s fifth nation to manufacture supercomputers...
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Trane Expands Thermal Management with Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling
DAVIDSON, N.C., Feb. 4, 2025 – Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate company, announced the expansion of its thermal management systems. ATrane...
From Schneier on Security
Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election
Interesting analysis: We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known...
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HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LLNL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers
The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons...
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EuroHPC JU Acquires €8.5M Qilimanjaro Quantum Annealer to be at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Feb. 1, 2025 — The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a procurement contract with Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech for MareNostrum...
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Women in HPC and Alces Flight Announce Move the Needle Project Results
Feb. 3, 2025 — The team at Alces Flight, a UK-based company specializing in high performance computing and volunteers from Women in HPC announced the final report...
From Schneier on Security
Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by Paragon Spyware
This is yet another story of commercial spyware being used against journalists and civil society members. The journalists and other civil society members were...
From insideHPC
Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security
Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoningLos...
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Cerebras Reports Fastest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Inference
Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is record-breaking performance for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B inference, achieving more than 1,500 tokens per second...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains
Interesting. Blog moderation policy.
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Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids...
From Computational Complexity
The Situation at the NSF
The National Science Foundation is one of the agencies most affected by the various executive orders issued by the Trump administration. As a critical funder of...
From The Noisy Channel
To Bot or Not to Bot: It Depends on the Question
I was one of Quora’s earliest users. I earned Top Writer status for several years and even made some money through their Knowledge Prizes. Although I stopped contributing...
From Computational Complexity
The NSF From the Inside
The National Science Foundation is one of the agencies most affected by the various executive orders issued by the Trump administration. As a critical funder of...
From insideHPC
We Want to Hear Your Data Center Disaster Stories!
[SPONSORED CONTENT] DDC Solutions, the maker of patented data center cabinet technology and dynamic management software, and insideHPC are running a contest focused...
From Schneier on Security
Fake Reddit and WeTransfer Sites are Pushing Malware
There are thousands of fake Reddit and WeTransfer webpages that are pushing malware. They exploit people who are using search engines to search sites like Reddit...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Programmer time and the pitfalls of wasteful work
Programmer time is precious. This realization should shape our approach to software development, focusing our efforts on tasks that genuinely contribute to theContinue...
From insideHPC
Emerald Invests in NLM Photonics Data Center Efficiency
SEATTLE, January 29, 2025 – Emerald, a venture capital company, has invested in NLM Photonics to help bring energy-efficient, high performance electro-optic modulation...
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Quantum Computing: Alice & Bob Closes €100M Series B Round
Paris, Jan. 28, 2025 — Quantum computing company Alice & Bob announced a raise of €100 million in its Series B funding round, led by Future French Champions (FFC)...
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