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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
Eviden Delivers 104 Pflops Nvidia-Powered EXA1-HE Supercomputer for CEA
Paris – April 17, 2024 – CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and Eviden, the Atos advanced computing business unit, today announce...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Opportunity to Respond to U.S. Air Force RFI on Countering Bias in AI/ML Datasets
Earlier this month The U.S. Air Force Chief Scientist’s inter-agency working group sent out a request for information (RFI) on unintended Artificial Intelligence...
From insideHPC
eFlows4HPC Delivers European HPC Workflow Platform
Barcelona, 16 April 2024 – The eFlows4HPC project announced it has delivered a workflow platform and an additional set of services facilitating the integrationeFlows4HPC...
From insideHPC
CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux
RENO, Nev.—April 17, 2024—CIQ today launched supported, upstream kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform, designed for enhanced performance...
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Riverlane Wins DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Program Grant
April 17, 2024 — Quantum computing company Riverlane has been selected for Phase 2 of the Quantum Benchmarking program funded by the Defence Advanced Research Projects...
From Schneier on Security
Using AI-Generated Legislative Amendments as a Delaying Technique
Canadian legislators proposed 19,600 amendments—almost certainly AI-generated—to a bill in an attempt to delay its adoption. I wrote about many different legislative...
From insideHPC
LBNL Leads Quantum Data Storage, Visualization Project
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced that national lab and university researchers recently released two papers introducing new methods of data storage...
From insideHPC
Stanford AI Index: Lax LLM Reponsibility, AI for Science Accelerates, Impact on Workers, US Leads China in Models
The AI Index Report from Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI is out, it's an annual, thoroughgoing snapshot of the state of AI begun by the HAI in 2019....
From insideHPC
NeuReality Launches Developer Portal for NR1 AI Inference Platform
SAN JOSE — April 16, 2024 — NeuReality, an AI infrastructure technology company, announced today the release of a software developer portal and demo for installation...
From insideHPC
Former Intel Executive Thomas Lantzsch Joins Canatu Board
VANTAA, FINLAND, April 16, 2024 — Canatu, a developer of carbon nanotubes (Canatu CNTs) and manufacturing equipment for the semiconductor and automotive industries...
From insideHPC
Microsoft and NVIDIA Together Advance AI
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Think of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform as analogous to a general contractor who brings together the most skilled and knowledgeable...
From Schneier on Security
X.com Automatically Changing Link Text but Not URLs
Brian Krebs reported that X (formerly known as Twitter) started automatically changing twitter.com links to x.com links. The problem is: (1) it changed any domain...
From insideHPC
Accelsius Announces NeuCool Direct Liquid Cooling
AUSTIN, Texas – Accelsius, whose patented two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems enable high-performance computing and compute density for data centerAccelsius...
From Computational Complexity
Avi Wigderson is a counterexample to TWO stupid thoughts of G.H. Hardy
Recently1) Avi Wigderson won the Turing Award (See blog posts by Fortnow-here, Scott-here, Lipton-Regan here, and the ACM announcement here). The last time Ihere...
From The Noisy Channel
Sparse and Dense Representations
The heart of the AI-powered search revolution is the move from sparse bag-of-words representations to dense embedding-based representations. But reducing everything...
From Schneier on Security
New Lattice Cryptanalytic Technique
A new paper presents a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for solving certain hard lattice problems. This could be a big deal for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking twice at RSA Conference 2024 in San Francisco. I’ll be on a panel on software liability...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 13 2024)
Our computer hardware exchange data using a standard called PCI Express. Your disk, your network and your GPU are limited by what PCI Express can do. Currently,...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Greatest common divisor, the extended Euclidean algorithm, and speed!
We sometimes need to find the greatest common divisor between two integers in software. The fastest way to compute the greatest common divisor might be the binary...
From Schneier on Security