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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cotton-and-Squid-Bone Sponge
News: A sponge made of cotton and squid bone that has absorbed about 99.9% of microplastics in water samples in China could provide an elusive answer to ubiquitous...
From insideHPC
TSMC: December Monthly Revenue up 58% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Jan. 10, 2025 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for last mont. On a consolidated basis, revenue for December...
From Schneier on Security
Apps That Are Spying on Your Location
404 Media is reporting on all the apps that are spying on your location, based on a hack of the location data company Gravy Analytics: The thousands of apps, included...
From insideHPC
Blackstone Invests $300M in DDN at $5B Valuation
Chatsworth, CA, January 9, 2025 – AI and data intelligence solutions company DDN today announced an investment of $300 million from Blackstone, an alternative asset...
From insideHPC
Hammerspace and Cloudian Partner on Unstructured Data Management
SAN MATEO, Calif. – January 9, 2025 – Data orchestration company Hammerspace and Cloudian, an S3-compatible object storage company, have announced a partnership...
From Computational Complexity
When DO Names Change? When SHOULD Names Change?
BILL: Good news for Jimmy Carter! He won The Betty White Award! (see here).LANCE: That's not good news. He had to die to get it.BILL: Call it a mixed bag. Good...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Herman Hollerith: from punch cards to a special company
Herman Hollerith, the son of immigrants, struggled early on at school and then later in bookkeeping at college but it didn’t stop him inventing machines that used...
From insideHPC
PSC Interns to Represent US at ISC 2025 Student Competition
Pittsburgh — A team of interns from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has been selected to represent the United States at an international high-performance computing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Counting the digits of 64-bit integers
Given an integer in software, you may want to know how many decimal digits it needs. For example, the integer 100 requires 3 digits, the integer 9999 requires 4...
From insideHPC
Nvidia at CES: Omniverse Blueprint for Industry, Generative Physical AI, Access to Blackwells, Cosmos Model for Physical AI
Nvidia issued its anticipated raft of news at CES this week, here’s an overview of announcements for the HPC-AI sector: ‘Mega’ Omniverse Blueprint for Industrial...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Nominations Open
The mission of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and...
From Schneier on Security
US Treasury Department Sanctions Chinese Company Over Cyberattacks
From the Washington Post: The sanctions target Beijing Integrity Technology Group, which U.S. officials say employed workers responsible for the Flax Typhoon attacks...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
A handshaking puzzle
By Przemysław Wałęga, Queen Mary University of London Logical reasoning and proof, whether done using math notation or informally in your head, is an importantContinue...
From insideHPC
Quantum: IonQ Completes Acquisition of Qubitekk
COLLEGE PARK, MD – January 6, 2025 – IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced the completion of its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Qubitekk, Inc., a...
From Computational Complexity
The Betty White Award for 2024
In Jan of 2023 I estabalished the Betty White Award, see here which is given to people who died late in the prior year and hence won't be in the those who we lost...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Tanaka Atsuko: an electric dress
Wearable computing is now increasingly common whether wearing smart watches or clothes that light up. The pioneer of the latter was Japanese artist, Tanaka Atsuko...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Anniversary Post
I made my first squid post nineteen years ago this week. Between then and now, I posted something about squid every week (with maybe only a few exceptions). There...
From insideHPC
LLNL to Lead Research on Advancing Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
EUV, extreme ultraviolet lithography, is nearly completely associated with the Dutch company ASML, the only maker of EUV machines that are used by TSMC, Intel and...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)