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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 …
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Exaion and PINQ² to Launch the HPC-Quantum Platform in Quebec
Montreal and Paris, April 12, 2024: Exaion, a Canadian subsidiary of the EDF Group (Électricité de France), a developer of digital service platforms aimed at eco...
From Schneier on Security
Smuggling Gold by Disguising it as Machine Parts
Someone got caught trying to smuggle 322 pounds of gold (that’s about 1/4 of a cubic foot) out of Hong Kong. It was disguised as machine parts: On March 27, customs...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A simple algorithm to compute the square root of an integer, byte by byte
A reader asked me for some help in computing (1 – sqrt(0.5)) to an arbitrary precision, from scratch. A simpler but equivalent problem is to compute the squareContinue...
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NTT: Photonics Network Connects Data Centers in U.S. and U.K.
NTT Corporation (NTT) and NTT DATA announced the successful demonstration of All-Photonics Network (APN)-driven connections between data centers in the United States...
From insideHPC
Georgia Tech Unveils AI Makerspace with NVIDIA
Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering has established an artificial intelligence supercomputer hub dedicated exclusively to teaching students. The initiative — the...
From Schneier on Security
Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened
Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe that didn’t...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Testing AIs in Minecraft
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What makes a good environment for child AI learning development? Possibly the same as for human child learning development...
From insideHPC
INCITE Call for Proposals for Access to Leadership-Class Supercomputers Open through June 14
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact,INCITE...
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Two Researchers to Share 2024 Jack Dongarra Early Career HPC Award at ISC
Two early career researchers, Edgar Solomonik of the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign and Amanda Randles of Duke University, have been selected as the recipients...
From Computational Complexity
Avi wins the Turing Award
The ACM announced that Avi Wigderson, a force in computational complexity and beyond, will receive the 2023 A. M. Turing Award (Quanta article). This is the first...
From insideHPC
ALCF User Community: Call for Argonne Art of Science Images, April 23 Deadline
Argonne National Laboratory has issued call for images for the 2024 Argonne Art of Science Contest.Submission deadline for science visualizations: Tuesday, April...
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Sylabs Launches the Singularity Containers Certification
Reno, NV – (April 10, 2024) – Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, today announces the launch of a new certification...
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TSMC March 2024 Revenue Report: Up 34% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Apr. 10, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for March 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for March...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visioning Workshop Report Released: The Future of Research on Social Technologies
In November 2023, CCC hosted a workshop on “The Future of Research on Social Technologies” in Washington, DC. The event, also supported by the John S. and James...
From Schneier on Security
In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024
Last week I posted a short memorial of Ross Anderson. The Communications of the ACM asked me to expand it. Here’s the longer version.
From insideHPC
MIPS Adds 3 Managers from NVIDIA, Google and SiFive
SAN JOSE – April 09, 2024 – MIPS, a developer of efficient and configurable IP compute cores, today announced the addition of three technology and semiconductor...
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Vermont Tech Hub to Manufacture Gallium Nitrade Chips
Berlin, Vt. – The state of Vermont announced its Tech Hub V-GaN will produce Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors. GaN advocates say the chips are more efficient...
From Computational Complexity
Rance Cleaveland passed away on March 27, 2024. He will be missed
My friend and colleague Rance Cleaveland passed away on March 27, 2024 at the age of 62. He was a professor at The University of Maryland at College Park in the...
From Schneier on Security
US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack
US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. It was a serious attack that From the executive summary: The...
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