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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Book: End-to-end Encrypted Messaging
Continue to make my way through this excellent and detailed book. Rolf Oppliger's site describes this book and others he has written. Plus his company's ongoing...
From insideHPC
Continuing Arecibo’s Legacy – A Partnership to Save Telescope Data at TACC
Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescope’s collapse – due to various hurricanes and other natural disasters – in December 2020....
From insideHPC
HPC Part of Bay Area National Labs Business Partnership Event Series
April 21, 2021 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Costs Rise
Seems like a need for analytical modeling of costs. My former employer needs to step up to the problem.Price hikes on the horizon for P&G as material costs rise...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Romps in Latest MLPerf AI Benchmark Results
What has become Nvidia’s regular romp through MLPerf AI benchmarks continued with today’s release of the latest performance measurements across a range of inference...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows 2021 Application Now Open
The CIFellows 2021 application site is now open. Applicants may start their applications here. Please read the CIFellows 2021 website and FAQs in its entirety before...
From Schneier on Security
On North Korea’s Cyberattack Capabilities
Excellent New Yorker article on North Korea’s offensive cyber capabilities.
From Schneier on Security
Backdoor Found in Codecov Bash Uploader
Developers have discovered a backdoor in the Codecov bash uploader. It’s been there for four months. We don’t know who put it there. Codecov said the breach allowed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Palm Swipe Scanning at Whole Foods
We experimented with a number of ID/payment methods. From Iris to thumbprint to Face. But not palm swipe scanning, installed at Wholefoods now. Contact-less...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Continuous and Dynamic Threat Modeling
Well done post from Cisco, with useful explanatory visuals. Strongly agree. Using and applying specific risk models. The Need for Continuous and Dynamic Threat...
From insideHPC
Atos’ BullSequana Powers First EuroHPC Supercomputer at IZUM in Slovenia
Maribor, Slovenia, Paris, April 21, 2021 – Atos and the Institute of Information Science (IZUM) in Maribor, Slovenia, today announce that the first EuroHPC supercomputer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Working on Detecting COVID from a Smartphone
More detail, here from GE on their work on detecting COVID from a smartphone.GE Scientists Developing Technology to Add COVID-19 Virus Detector to Your Mobile Device...
From insideHPC
Human Brain Project and EBRAINS: Call to Build Services for Sensitive Data
April 21, 2021 – The Human Brain Project and its research infrastructure EBRAINS are looking for partners to help them offer compliant data solutions to the scientific...
From insideHPC
Cerebras Systems: 2.5 Trillion-plus Transistors in 7nm-based 2nd Gen Wafer Scale Engine
Maker of the world’s largest microprocessors, Cerebras Systems, today unveiled what it said is the largest AI chip, the Wafer Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2) — successor...
From insideHPC
Qumulo Extends to Asia Pacific; Expands Partnership with HPE
SEATTLE — April 20, 2021 — Qumulo, focused on enterprise file data management across hybrid-cloud environments, today announced the expansion of its global operations...
From CERIAS Blog
50 Years, and Lessons (Not) Learned
Recently, I had cause to reflect on some of what I have done in my career. As one result, I posted a blog entry about how many programming languages I have learned...
From CERIAS Blog
50 Years, and Lessons (Not) Learned
Recently, I had cause to reflect on some of what I have done in my career. As one result, I posted a blog entry about how many programming languages I have learned...
From insideHPC
CEA-Leti Announces EU Project to Mimic Multi-Timescale Processing of Biological Neural Systems
GRENOBLE, France – April 20, 2021 – CEA-Leti announced today the launch of an EU project to develop a novel class of algorithms, devices and circuits that reproduce...
From insideHPC
Altair’s Global HPC Summit 2021 May 11-12
Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) will hold its virtual Global HPC Summit on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 11-12 featuring HPC professionals and end users from a range of industries...
From Schneier on Security