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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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Art Touch and Talk Tour Tech
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 1994 Lair of Squid Game
I didn’t know: In 1994, Hewlett-Packard released a miracle machine: the HP 200LX pocket-size PC. In the depths of the device, among the MS-DOS productivity apps...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: A Groundbreaking NSF Facility Project
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing the exciting announcement of a leader-class computing facility project from The U.S. National...
From insideHPC
SoftBank Acquires AI Chip Company Graphcore
July 12, 2024 — Graphcore has confirmed that the Japan-based SoftBank investment firm has acquired the specialty AI chip company. Terms were not disclosed, butSoftBank...
From insideHPC
July 28 Deadline for Office of Science Digital Twins RFI
July 12, 2024 — The Digital Twins Fast-Tracking Committee of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office...
From insideHPC
Research from Vultr on AI Maturity ROI
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.– Cloud computing platform Vultr has released an industry report, The New Battleground: Unlocking the Power of AI Maturity with Multi-Model...
From insideHPC
Eviden and the IOTA Foundation Announce Digital Product Passport
Paris – July 12, 2024 – Eviden today announced ,in partnership with the IOTA Foundation, the Eviden Digital Passport solution (EDPS), “powered by IOTA” technology...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
FOCS 2024
Foundations of Computer Science 2024 is coming this fall: October 27-30, 2024 at Wolf Point Plaza, Chicago. A Bit of History The cover of the FOCS proceedings is...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper
The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far)...
From insideHPC
HPE-Nvidia 6 AI Exaflops Supercomputer to Be Installed at AIST Research Organization in Japan
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Is Alerting iPhone Users of Spyware Attacks
Not a lot of details: Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Accessible Technology in the Voting Booth
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Benchmarking ARM processors: Graviton 4, Graviton 3 and Apple M2
The world of commodity processor is roughly divided in two: x64 chips for servers and PCs, and ARM processors for mobile devices. However, ARM chips increasingly...
From insideHPC
July 22 Deadline for ASCR Call for Papers: Workshop on Neuromorphic Computing for Science
July 10, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program has announced a Monday July 22 deadline (11:59 pm ET) for...
From insideHPC
Exascale: SUPERLU/STRUMPACK Solvers Get Frontier Upgrade
“Before (the Exascale Computing Project), both packages had very little support for GPUs. We could get some benefit from running on a single GPU, but without updating...
From insideHPC
AMD in $665M Acquisition of Silo AI
AMD announced it will acquire Helsinki-based Silo AI, which AMD said is the largest private AI lab in Europe, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately...
From Schneier on Security
RADIUS Vulnerability
New attack against the RADIUS authentication protocol: The Blast-RADIUS attack allows a man-in-the-middle attacker between the RADIUS client and server to forge...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Extracting Ramsey Graphs
June EditionTwo decades ago, I named the recently departed Luca Trevisan's paper connecting extractors to psuedorandom generators as one of my favorite theorems...
From insideHPC
Qumulo Names Former Arista Executive Douglas Gourlay CEO
SEATTLE – Jul. 9, 2024 – Data management company Qumulo today announced the appointment of Douglas Gourlay as president and chief executive officer. Gourlay will...
From insideHPC