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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
Hitachi Vantara Announces General Availability of Hitachi iQ and New AI Discovery Service to Help Businesses Become AI-Ready
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 25, 2024 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today...
From Schneier on Security
Data Wallets Using the Solid Protocol
I am the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc., the company that is commercializing Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid open W3C standard for distributed data ownership...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Celebrating Technology Leaders: Generative AI in Enterprise Software
Date: 07 August 2024 Time: Noon Pacific Register: Zoom Link We are at the forefront of a technological revolution where generative AI is redefining the boundaries...
From insideHPC
Graphene Plasmon: NTT and Univ. of Tokyo Control THz-Region for High-Speed Signal Processing
NTT Corporation and The University of Tokyo announced they have generated and controlled graphene plasmon wave packets with a pulse width of 1.2 picoseconds. They...
From Schneier on Security
Robot Dog Internet Jammer
Supposedly the DHS has these: The robot, called “NEO,” is a modified version of the “Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (Q-UGV) sold to law enforcement by a company...
From Computational Complexity
Complexity in Michigan
Invited Speaker Nutan Limaye, Conference Chair Valentine Kabanets,2024 PC Chair Rahul Santhanam, myself, 2025 PC Chair Srikanth Srinivasanand 2025 Local Arrangements...
From insideHPC
Nvidia AI Foundry for Custom Llama 3.1 Generative AI Models
Nvidia today announced its AI Foundry service and NIM inference microservices for generative AI with Meta's Llama 3.1 collection of models, also introduced today...
From insideHPC
Micron Introduces PCIe Gen5 Data Center SSD
BOISE, Idaho, July 23, 2024 — Micron Technology, Inc. today announced availability of the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD – which Micros said is the fastest data center SSD...
From Schneier on Security
2017 ODNI Memo on Kaspersky Labs
It’s heavily redacted, but still interesting. Many more ODNI documents here.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Does C++ allow template specialization by concepts?
Recent versions of C++ (C++20) have a new feature: concepts. A concept in C++ is a named set of requirements that a type must satisfy. E.g., ‘act like a string’...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: A High Performance Computing Researcher Explains Sustainable AI
CCC spoke with one of its council members, Michela Taufer about her work in high performance computing (HPC) and her contributions to sustainable AI. Taufer has...
From Putting People First
July/August 2024 edition of Interactions magazine is out
The latest issue of Interactions magazine, published by ACM, contains five feature stories, four of which are about AI and interaction design.
From Schneier on Security
Snake Mimics a Spider
This is a fantastic video. It’s an Iranian spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides). Its tail looks like a spider, which the snake uses to fool...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Post CSTA 2024 Thoughts
The 2024 CSTA conference was the best one ever for me. It was wonderful to catchup with old friends and to talk to many people I had never met before. CSTA is about...
From Computational Complexity
FLT solution annouement had its 31's anniv was about a month ago. Some poems about FLT NOT from ChatGPT
On June 21, 1993, at the Issac Newton Institute for Mathematical Science, Andrew Wiles announced that he had proven Fermat's Last Theorem. That wasn't quite right...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Scan HTML even faster with SIMD instructions (C++ and C#)
Earlier this year, both major Web engines (WebKit/Safari and Chromium/Chrome/Edge/Brave) accelerated HTML parsing using SIMD instructions. These ‘SIMD’ instructions...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Peru Trying to Protect its Squid Fisheries
Peru is trying to protect its territorial waters from Chinese squid-fishing boats. Blog moderation policy.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Day Four
Last day of the conference and I woke up to news of a global network outage that was causing delays in thousands of flights. Including my trip home. Oh well. IGUI4Sher...
From Schneier on Security
Brett Solomon on Digital Rights
Brett Solomon is retiring from AccessNow after fifteen years as its Executive Director. He’s written a blog post about what he’s learned and what comes next.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog