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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Biblical Codes
This Sunday’s NYTimes had an article on Eliyahu Rips who just just passed away at 75. He was an Israeli mathematician known for his research in geometric group...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: Trustworthy Intelligent Systems From An Interdisciplinary Lens
CCC spoke with one of its council members, Rachel Greenstadt about her work in trustworthy intelligent systems and her approach to this research through an interdisciplinary...
From Schneier on Security
Long Analysis of the M-209
Really interesting analysis of the American M-209 encryption device and its security.
From insideHPC
atNorth Announces Heat Reuse at Denmark Data Center
Copenhagen – September 4th, 2024 – Nordic coloction HPC and AI service provider atNorth has announced plans to build its largest data center to date in Ølgod in...
From insideHPC
VDURA Announces Partnership with Jeskell Systems for IT Modernization
SAN JOSE and LAUREL, Md.– High performance storage and management company VDURA has announced a partnership with Jeskell Systems, a renowned IT modernization specialist...
From The Noisy Channel
Take Searchers Seriously, Not Literally
Search application developers manage numerous tradeoffs, foremost the tradeoff between precision and recall. Precision measures the fraction of search results that...
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $118M for Energy Frontier Research Centers
Sept. 4, 2024 — Ten Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) designed to bring together teams of scientists for fundamental research have been funded in nine states...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Parity Games
August EditionA quasipolynomial-time algorithm for a long standing open problem. Yes, we have two of them this decade.Deciding Parity Games in Quasi-polynomialCristian...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Participation: Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research
The Community Computing Consortium (CCC) is engaging in a new visioning activity to craft a research agenda focused on how human-computer collaborations can solve...
From Schneier on Security
Security Researcher Sued for Disproving Government Statements
This story seems straightforward. A city is the victim of a ransomware attack. They repeatedly lie to the media about the severity of the breach. A security researcher...
From Schneier on Security
List of Old NSA Training Videos
The NSA’s “National Cryptographic School Television Catalogue” from 1991 lists about 600 COMSEC and SIGINT training videos. There are a bunch explaining the operations...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Compressing floating-point numbers quickly by converting them to brain floats
We sometimes have to work a large quantity of floating-point numbers. This volume can be detrimental to performance. Thus we often want to compress these numbers...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240902: Nvidia and Blackwell Hit Limits, Revved-Up AI Inference and Oncoming Regulations, HPC in Russia
Happy Labor Day to you! From the world of HPC-AI, we offer a rapid (5:57) review of recent news, including: Nvidia and Blackwell push technology's limits, bigHPC...
From Schneier on Security
SQL Injection Attack on Airport Security
Interesting vulnerability: …a special lane at airport security called Known Crewmember (KCM). KCM is a TSA program that allows pilots and flight attendants toVarious...
From Computational Complexity
Six degrees of separation has been proven. Really?
There is a paper (see here for an article about the paper, the link to the paper itself is later) that claims to PROVE that, on average, the distance (for someMy...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Economic Fallout from Falklands Halting Squid Fishing
Details. Blog moderation policy.
From insideHPC
NTT: All-Photonics Network Activated between Taiwan and Japan
NTT Corp. and Chunghwa Telecom announced they have activated the first all-photonics network between Taiwan and Japan with approximately 17 msec on an approximately...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: NSF and NIH to Hold AI and Menopause Workshop
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity to attend a workshop centered around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and...
From The Noisy Channel
Hallucinating a Post-Search World
When I first heard about 3D printing, I imagined something like a Star Trek replicator that could synthesize arbitrary objects — or at least meals — on demand.generative...
From Yoshua Bengio