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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
Rescale Secures $115M Series D
SAN FRANCISCO — April 7, 2025 — Rescale, a digital engineering platform, today announced a $115 million Series D with participation from Applied Ventures, Atika...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How helpful is AI?
Do large language models (AI) make you 3x faster or only 3% faster? The answer depends on the quality of the work you are producing. If you need something likeContinue...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20250407: Tariffs and the Technology Industry, Intel-TSMC Deal?, DARPA Taps Wafer Scale, Sandia and Laser-Based Cooling, Optical I/O News
Good April day to you! It was a wild week for more than the HPC-AI sector last week, here’s a brief (7:39) look at some key developments: U.S. tariffs, the technology...
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LLNL Scientists Use AI to Optimize Antibodies Against Mutations and to Speed Pandemic Preparedness
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with other institutions, have successfully used an AI-driven platform to preemptively...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Releases Final Report in the Enabling Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research Collaboration Series
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is very pleased to announce the release of the final report in the workshop series on enabling research collaborations...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Always check the text before sending to print!
One of our tasks here at CS4FN is to proofread our magazines before we put them in the post and send them out to our subscribers. We’re not just checking for spelling...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Software Learning Stories–Constants
I am a big fan of using stores to teach. Stories are more memorable that contextless theoretical statements. In my career, over fifty years of programming, I have...
From Schneier on Security
DIRNSA Fired
In “Secrets and Lies” (2000), I wrote: It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. It’s something a bunch ofnews...
From Computational Complexity
I was invited to a Nutrition conference. Why?
From November of 2024 to March of 2025 I have gotten email inviting me to speak at conferences and/or submit to journals in the following topics:NOT EVEN CLOSE...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Faster shuffling in Go with batching
Random integer generation is a fundamental operation in programming, often used in tasks like shuffling arrays. Go’s standard library provides convenient toolsContinue...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Super-plant supercapacitors
There are a whole range of plants that have been called superfoods for their amazing claimed health benefits because of the nutrients they contain. But plants can...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The wrong trousers? Not any more!
Inspired by the Wallace & Gromit film ‘The Wrong Trousers’, Johnathan Rossiter of the University of Bristol builds robotic trousers. We could all need them as we...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Two-Man Giant Squid
The Brooklyn indie art-punk group, Two-Man Giant Squid, just released a new album. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From insideHPC
DOE Identifies 16 Federal Sites for Data Center and AI Infrastructure
GOLDEN, CO, April 4, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to co-locate data centers and new energy infrastructure on DOE lands. DOE has released...
From Schneier on Security
Troy Hunt Gets Phished
In case you need proof that anyone, even people who do cybersecurity for a living, Troy Hunt has a long, iterative story on his webpage about how he got phished...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Language-mangling rude word filters
What we have here on the right is a water butt also known as a rainwater tank. These are large containers which collect rainwater so are an environmentally friendly...
From insideHPC
Report: TSMC to Operate Intel Fabs under Tentative Joint Venture
The online technology publication The Information reported today that Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have reached a tentative agreement to...
From insideHPC
Sandia Labs Tests Laser-Based Photonic Data Center Cooling
Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into an R&D agreement with Sandia and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling...
From insideHPC
Alice & Bob Selected by DARPA for the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Boston and Paris – April 3, 2025 – Fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob today announces its selection as a performer in the U.S. Defense Advanced...
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