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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Quickly checking whether a string needs escaping
In software, we often represent strings by surrounding them with quotes ("). What happens if the string itself contains quotes? We then need to escape the string...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Never reason from the results of a sampling profiler
In the quest for software optimization, a trusty companion is the sampling profiler, a tool available in most programming languages. These profilers work unobtrusively...
From insideHPC
Lenovo and Cisco Announce AI Partnership
May 30, 2024 – Lenovo and Cisco today unveiled a partnership intended to deliver fully integrated infrastructure and networking solutions designed to accelerate...
From insideHPC
Quantum: Photonic Demonstrates Distributed Entanglement between Modules
VANCOUVER, BC, May 30, 2024—Photonic Inc., a distributed quantum computing in silicon company, today announced what the company said is a milestone on the pathQuantum...
From insideHPC
Eviden to Deliver Supercomputer for University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Paris - May 30, 2024 - Eviden today announces that it has been selected by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) to supply the university with a newEviden...
From insideHPC
Ultra Accelerator Link Group for Data Center AI Connectivity Formed: AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft
BEAVERTON, Ore.– AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft today announced they have aligned to develop a new industry...
From Schneier on Security
Supply Chain Attack against Courtroom Software
No word on how this backdoor was installed: A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a...
From insideHPC
Report: New ASML Machines Could Produce Denser, Cheaper Advanced Chips
ASML, whose chip manufacturing machines produce advanced microprocessors used for HPC and AI, says it has set a new chipmaking density record with its new High-NA...
From insideHPC
Hitachi Vantara Announces Block Storage Appliance for Virtual Storage Platform One Portfolio
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – May 29, 2024 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today...
From insideHPC
Storage Company Xinnor Joins Arm Partner Program
May 29, 2027 — Xinnor, a provider of high-performance data storage solutions, announced its inclusion in the Arm Partner Program. This collaboration is intended...
From insideHPC
Riverlane Partners with Alice & Bob on Quantum Error Correction
Cambridge, Paris, Boston, 29th May: Quantum error correction technology company Riverlane and fault tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob have signed an...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
A kaleidoscope of celebrations across the globe
In recent months, ACM Women across the globe have been celebrating women’s achievements in their respective regions: North America (ACMW-NA), Europe (ACM WE) and...
From insideHPC
Classiq and HPE Collaborate on Quantum-HPC Integration
Not until the ISC 2024 conference earlier this month had we heard that HPE is active in quantum computing — since then, we’ve heard they’re active in two ways.Classiq...
From Computational Complexity
Double Digit Delights
It started with a post from Fermat's Library. 132 is the sum of all the 2-digit numbers made from its digits. It is the smallest such number. pic.twitter.com/hrByAXbr51...
From Schneier on Security
Privacy Implications of Tracking Wireless Access Points
Brian Krebs reports on research into geolocating routers: Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research...
From The Noisy Channel
Bags of Queries as Sparse Document Representations
There is a duality between search queries and indexed documents: we can model a query as a bag of documents and a document as a bag of queries. This duality offers...
From insideHPC
Simr (Formerly UberCloud) Announces SimOps for Product Development
LOS ALTOS, Calif. – Simr, formerly known as UberCloud, has unveiled Simulation Operations Automation (SimOps), making best practices in computer simulations implemented...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
3 current societal challenges where computational systems fit
Computer science has emerged as a transformative force shaping virtually every aspect of modern society, profoundly impacting how we approach and tackle societal...
From Schneier on Security
Lattice-Based Cryptosystems and Quantum Cryptanalysis
Quantum computers are probably coming, though we don’t know when—and when they arrive, they will, most likely, be able to break our standard public-key cryptography...
From Computational Complexity