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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
With the self-destruction of OpenAI well underway, Friday night I watched the movie War Games for the first time since the 80s. Quick synopsis (spoilers): NORAD...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | November 20, 2023 at 09:46 AM
Generative AI is going to be a powerful tool for data analysis and summarization. Here’s an example of it being used for sentiment analysis. My guess is that it...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 20, 2023 at 06:57 AM
In a rare squid/security post, here’s an article about unpatched vulnerabilities in the Squid caching proxy.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talkhere...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 17, 2023 at 05:01 PM
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It")
Wisdom of the crowd...Greg Linden From Geeking with Greg | November 17, 2023 at 04:23 PM
Advanced Clustering Technologies today announced the high performance computing systems integrator’s LogVisor AI during the SC23 conference in Denver. LogVisorAdvanced...staff From insideHPC | November 17, 2023 at 02:41 PM
Three of the newest National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) commodity computing clusters recently deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)...staff From insideHPC | November 17, 2023 at 01:53 PM
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-led effort that performed an unprecedented global climate model simulation on the world’s first exascale supercomputer...staff From insideHPC | November 17, 2023 at 12:32 PM
A ransomware gang, annoyed at not being paid, filed an SEC complaint against its victim for not disclosing its security breach within the required four days.
This...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 17, 2023 at 11:31 AM
Most underestimate how easy it is for social media to become dominated by astroturf. It's easy. All you need is a few people creating and controlling multiple accounts...Greg Linden From Geeking with Greg | November 17, 2023 at 10:04 AM
New York & Phoenix, November 16, 2023 — Internet exchange operator DE-CIX and CR8DL, a cloud-based high-performance computing company, today announce a research...staff From insideHPC | November 16, 2023 at 04:10 PM
With the STOC deadline this last Monday, a number of complexity papers have appeared on arXiV and ECCC. Two caught my eye because they seem to independently prove...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | November 16, 2023 at 03:52 PM
An upgrade to the ALCF AI Testbed will help accelerate data-intensive experimental research. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) AI Testbed—which...staff From insideHPC | November 16, 2023 at 10:36 AM
Seth Godin wrote an article about a surprisingly common vulnerability: programmers leaving authentication credentials and other secrets in publicly accessible software...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 16, 2023 at 07:10 AM
At DDC, the global leader in scalable datacenter-to-edge solutions, we are taking an innovative approach to building new and retrofitting legacy datacenters. Today...staff From insideHPC | November 16, 2023 at 06:00 AM
Nov. 15, 2023 -- Today at Microsoft Ignite, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft featured AMD products, including the upcoming Instinct MI300X GPU accelerator, EPYCAzure...staff From insideHPC | November 15, 2023 at 09:47 PM
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It")
How do some companies...Greg Linden From Geeking with Greg | November 15, 2023 at 04:50 PM
Denver, November 13, 2023 – Panasas, a leading data solutions provider for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), today introduced PanFS...staff From insideHPC | November 15, 2023 at 01:47 PM
Nov. 14, 2023 — DarkByte will host its AI cloud powered by renewable energy using sources including solar, batteries, hydro, and nanotech – helping to define new...staff From insideHPC | November 15, 2023 at 01:44 PM
This is interesting:
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 15, 2023 at 12:51 PM
TEL AVIV, November 13, 2023 — Quantum software pioneer Classiq today unveiled a new industry initiative, the Quantum Computing for Life Sciences & Healthcare Center...staff From insideHPC | November 15, 2023 at 10:02 AM