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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
Infratil and L&G Capital Increase Investment in Kao Data
London, October 5th, 2023 – Kao Data, developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has announced that infrastructure...
From Schneier on Security
Political Disinformation and AI
Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other...
From Putting People First
From nudge to sludge: a book, and now an academy and an audit
Sludge is friction through unnecessary red tape. Cass R. Sunstein wrote a book about it and the OECD is currently exploring the contribution that behavioural science...
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NVIDIA, Intel and Google Alums Form Lemurian Labs, Raise $9M for 20X AI Throughput Boost
Toronto – October 4, 2023 — Lemurian Labs today announced it has secured $9 million in seed funding to develop an accelerated computing platform tailored for AI...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Heidelberg Laureates Warn Against a False Sense of Security with Current Encryption Methods
During the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum last week, I had the opportunity to interview several of the laureates to hear their perspectives on current and future...
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Keshav Pingali to Receive ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
New York, October 4, 2023 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE Computer Society have named Keshav Pingali, the W.A.”Tex” Moncrief Chair of Grid...
From insideHPC
Dell Teams with NVIDIA on Generative AI
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced today it is partnering with NVIDIA and its Tensor Core GPUs -- including the coveted H100 -- to expand its generativeDell...
From Computational Complexity
The Lyadov Lesson
I've seen many brilliant students, those who flew though high school and undergrad with great grades and little effort. As PhD students, they often feel they still...
From insideHPC
New Open Source Event: AI.dev, Dec 12-13 in San Jose, Co-located with Cassandra Summit
Oct. 3, 2023 — The McEnery Convention Center in San Jose will be the site of a new conference, the AI.dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit, Tuesday and Wednesday,...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Gas Pumps via Bluetooth
Turns out pumps at gas stations are controlled via Bluetooth, and that the connections are insecure. No details in the article, but it seems that it’s easy to take...
From Schneier on Security
NSA AI Security Center
The NSA is starting a new artificial intelligence security center: The AI security center’s establishment follows an NSA study that identified securing AI models...
From insideHPC
IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ISC Join on Access to ISC Research Papers
By Nages Sieslack, ISC Communications Team Oct. 2, 2023 — I had the opportunity to talk with Prof. Michela Taufer, the ISC 2024 Program Chair, to get an updateIEEE...
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HPC News Bytes 20231002: Lisa Su on AMD-NVIDIA GPU Competition; ASML EUV at Intel Fab in Ireland; AI Job Elimination; SC23 Coming up
A happy October morning to you! Our lineup of quick (4:36) commentary on recent HPC news includes: AMD's Lisa Su on the AMD-NVIDIA GPU competition; ASML EUV atHPC...
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HPC, AI, ML and Edge Solutions Drive Duos Railcar Inspection System Powered by Dell Technologies and Kalray
Industries such as railways are moving from traditional inspection methods to using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to perform automatedHPC...
From Putting People First
[Book] Death Glitch
Technology scholar Tamara Kneese examines what happens to our digital belongings when we die, and argues that tech companies need to improve how they deal with...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Protecting Cephalopods in Medical Research
From Nature: Cephalopods such as octopuses and squid could soon receive the same legal protection as mice and monkeys do when they are used in research. On 7 September...
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DOE: $500M Funding Opportunity for Basic Research to Advance Science
Sept. 29, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $500 million in funding for basic research in support of DOE’s clean energy, economic...
From insideHPC
Quantum Exponential Group Announces Copenhagen Headquarters
Sept. 29, 2023 — Quantum technology investment company Quantum Exponential Group plc (AQUIS: QBIT) announced it has established a European entity with headquarters...
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