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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
LiquidStack Secures $20M Series B Funding from Tiger Global
CARROLLTON, Texas, September 19, 2024 — LiquidStack today announced it has secured a $20 million Series B extension investment from leading investment firm Tiger...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACMW Celebrating Technology Leaders Episode 15: Generative AI in Enterprise Software
We are at the forefront of a technological revolution where generative AI is redefining the boundaries of what’s possible within enterprise environments. In episode...
From insideHPC
SiFive Introduces Intelligence XM Series for AI
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– RISC-V computing company SiFive announced the SiFive Intelligence XM Series designed for accelerating high performance AI workloads. This is...
From Computational Complexity
Embracing the Future of Manufacturing
Last week I walked around the International Manufacturing Technology Show with 89,000 other participants at the McCormick Center in Chicago. I went to see how AI...
From The Noisy Channel
Seriously or Literally?
The other day, I posted about the need for search applications to take searchers seriously, not literally. This need holds even when searchers practically ask to...
From insideHPC
David Padua to Receive Ken Kennedy HPC Award
David A. Padua, professor emeritus in Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been named the recipient of the 2024 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy...
From insideHPC
The Next Big Interconnect Technology Could Be Plastic
.... large language models and generative AI applications are driving hyperscalers to adopt a new data center-scale switch fabric, called the AI backend network...
From insideHPC
NCSA and CliMAS to Host Climate Supercomputing Summit Sept. 29-Oct. 2
Champaign-Urbana, IL, Sept. 17, 2024 — The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Univerity of Illinois’ Department of Climate, Meteorology...
From insideHPC
e6data Raises $10M for Analytics Engine
San Francisco – September 17, 2024; In today’s digital-first landscape, enterprises rely on powerful data and AI capabilities to fuel innovation, enhance customer...
From insideHPC
ZutaCore and Munters Team on Waterless Data Center Architecture for AI Factories
SAN JOSE, Sept. 17, 2024 — ZutaCore, a provider of direct-to-chip, waterless liquid cooling solutions, and Munters, an air treatment and climate solutions company...
From insideHPC
Firebolt Introduces Cloud Data Warehouse
KIRKLAND, WA, September 17, 2024 — Today, Firebolt announced a data warehouse that the company said delivers low latency analytics with 10x more efficiency. “Built...
From Schneier on Security
Remotely Exploding Pagers
Wow. It seems they all exploded simultaneously, which means they were triggered. Were they each tampered with physically, or did someone figure out how to trigger...
From Schneier on Security
Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews
Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article...
From The Noisy Channel
Cold Start, Practical Edition
If you are a search application developer or some other kind of machine learning practitioner, you have probably encountered a cold start problem: launching a data...
From Schneier on Security
Legacy Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance Being Exploited
CISA wants everyone—and government agencies in particular—to remove or upgrade an Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) that is no longer being supported. Welcome...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: Upcoming CCC Citizen Science Workshop Organizers Give A Sneak Peak
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will be hosting the Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research workshop in-person...
From insideHPC
Q-CTRL Delivering New Services to IBM Quantum Network
Montréal, Sept. 16, 2024 – Quantum sofware company Q-CTRL today announced that it offers two services via IBM’s new Qiskit Functions Catalog to simplify application...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Cooking up computer style
Use the recipe for hummus and tomato pasta to learn about creating a good computer program (and have a delicious meal at the end!).
From Computational Complexity
How will chatGPT affect Homework?
LANCE: I gave my final exam for my ugrad theory course (regular, Context Free, P, NP, Decidable, Undecidable) to the new ChatGPT o1 that claims to reason aboutdo...
From Schneier on Security