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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
NSF Awards Additional $9.8M to NCSA for Delta, DeltaAI HPC
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Illinois was recently awarded $4.9 million of supplemental funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation...
From insideHPC
Supercomputer Funding for BC Universities in Canada for Research in Health Care and More
June 3, 2024 — The Government of British Columbia and the Digital Research Alliance of Canad are investing over $81M into the supercomputers at Simon Fraser University...
From insideHPC
Montana State Selects ORCA Computing for Distributed Quantum Computing and Communications
LONDON and AUSTIN, June 5, 2024 — ORCA Computing, a quantum computing company, has been selected by Montana State University (MSU) to supply two PT-1 quantum photonics...
From Schneier on Security
Online Privacy and Overfishing
Microsoft recently caught state-backed hackers using its generative AI tools to help with their attacks. In the security community, the immediate questions weren...
From insideHPC
VAST Data to be Data Platform for Cisco Nexus HyperFabric for GenAI with Nvidia
NEW YORK & LAS VEGAS – June 4, 2024 – AI data platform company VAST Data today at Cisco Live 2024 announced it is collaborating with Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking a Password Manager
Interesting story of breaking the security of the RoboForm password manager in order to recover a cryptocurrency wallet password. Grand and Bruno spent months reverse...
From insideHPC
Northern Data Group Launches Nvidia-based AI Accelerator Powered by Carbon-Free Energy
Frankfurt/Main – 3 June 2024 – Northern Data Group (German stock market: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87), a provider of HPC solutions, today announces the launch of its...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS 2024 Test of Time Award. Call for nominations and my opinion
The call for nominations for the Test of Time Award at FOCS 2024 has been posted here.Eligibility and past winners are here.Points1) It is good to have an award...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
3 examples of grand challenges that had successful outcomes
In the rapidly evolving landscape of computing, grand challenges emerge as pivotal milestones that shape the trajectory of technological advancement and societal...
From insideHPC
Qumulo Announces AI Infrastructure Benchmark Results with Azure Native Qumulo
SEATTLE – June 3rd, 2024 – Today, data storage and management company Qumulo said it achieved the industry’s fastest and most cost-effective cloud-native storage...
From insideHPC
Pinecone Names Lauren Nemeth COO ad Bob Muglia as Board Member
NEW YORK, June 3, 2024 – Vector database AI company Pinecone today announced that Lauren Nemeth and Bob Muglia have joined the company as chief operating officer...
From Schneier on Security
Seeing Like a Data Structure
Technology was once simply a tool—and a small one at that—used to amplify human intent and capacity. That was the story of the industrial revolution: we could control...
From Schneier on Security
AI Will Increase the Quantity—and Quality—of Phishing Scams
A piece I coauthored with Fredrik Heiding and Arun Vishwanath in the Harvard Business Review: Summary. Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Most Important Number
It seems like we’ve been noticing 34 everywhere we look lately, whether it’s on billboards, in phone numbers, or even inside fortune cookies. Is it all just a coincidence...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
From Egyptian Survey puzzles to computational thinking
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One way to use logical thinking is to deduce new facts but then turn them into IF-THEN rules. They tell us an action...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Baby Colossal Squid
This video might be a juvenile colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered....
From insideHPC
CEA-Leti Reports 3-Layer Integration, Progress toward AI-Embedded CMOS Image Sensors
DENVER – May 31, 2024 – CEA-Leti scientists have reported three projects at ECTC 2024 that they say are steps to enabling CMOS image sensors (CIS) that can exploit...
From Schneier on Security
How AI Will Change Democracy
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to predict that artificial intelligence will affect every aspect of our society. Not by doing new things. But mostly by doing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Quickly checking whether a string needs escaping
In software, we often represent strings by surrounding them with quotes ("). What happens if the string itself contains quotes? We then need to escape the string...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog