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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
Lumen and Ciena Report 1.2 Tbps Wavelength Service from Denver to Dallas
Lumen Technologies and Ciena recently reported they have established a 1.2 terabit wavelength service trial across 3,050 kilometers (more than 1,800 miles) on Lumen's...
From insideHPC
Optical I/O: Ayar Labs Launches 8 Tbps UCIe Optical Chiplet for AI Scale-Up Architectures
Optical interconnect company Ayar Labs announced the TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet, which Ayar said is the first optical Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe)...
From Computational Complexity
PDQ Shor (?-2025)
PDQ Shor PDQ Shor, Peter Shor's smarter brother, passed away last week. PDQ was a Physicist/Computer Scientist/Mathematician/Astrologer/Psychic at the University...
From Schneier on Security
Cell Phone OPSEC for Border Crossings
I have heard stories of more aggressive interrogation of electronic devices at US border crossings. I know a lot about securing computers, but very little about...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Broadband, by carrier pigeon
There’s a joke, about a Victorian football newspaper reporter, who takes a homing pigeon with him to the match so that he can swiftly return the score to his editor...
From insideHPC
TSMC Holds 2nm Capacity Expansion Ceremony, Volume Production Slated for Second Half of Year
TSMC today held a 2 nanometer (2nm) capacity expansion ceremony at the construction site of Fab 22 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), bringing together...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
California Seeks Feedback on Draft Report Guiding Oversight of AI Frontier Models
On March 18, 2025, the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models released a draft report that could help shape how the state navigates the rapidly...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Music-making mates for Mortimer
Robots are cool. Fact. But can they keep you interested for more than a short time? Over months? Years even? Louis McCallum of Queen Mary University of London tells...
From insideHPC
AI Factory: AMD in $4.9 Billion Acquisition of ZT Systems
On the heels of winning a 30,000 GPU cluster deal with Oracle, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a move into the AI infrastructure arena, reflecting a trend toward...
From insideHPC
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E6 Shapes Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2025 — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors power the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E6 Standard...
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Trane Announces Data Center Air-Cooled Chillers
DAVIDSON, N.C., March 27, 2025 – Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), announced the development of two new air-cooled chiller offerings – Magnetic Bearing...
From Schneier on Security
The Signal Chat Leak and the NSA
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who started the now-infamous group chat coordinating a US attack against the Yemen-based Houthis on March 15, is seemingly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching The Writing of Secure Code
One of the great problems of teaching computer science is that there is a limited amount of time to teach and an unlimited amount of things that can be taught....
From insideHPC
Pasqal Selected for 140-Qubit Quantum Computer to Be Hosted at CINECA
March 27, 2025 — Pasqal, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced the signing of the procurement contract with the European High Performance Computing...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Philippa Gardner bringing law and order to a wild west
Verified Trustworthy Software The computing world is a wild west, with bugs in software the norm, and malicious people and hostile countries making use of themContinue...
From Computational Complexity
Survey's are done stupidly/A stupid question from a survey
I have often began taking a survey and quit in the middle. Why?1) It goes on to long. When I told the surveyors that he may get more people quitting for that reason...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Mixing ARM NEON with SVE code for fun and profit
Most mobile devices use 64-bit ARM processors. A growing number of servers (Amazon, Microsoft) also use 64-bit ARM processors. These processors have special instructions...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Soft squidgy robots
Think of a robot and you probably think of something hard, metal, solid. Bang into one and it would hurt! But researchers are inventing soft robots, ones that are...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Werewolf Hacking Group
In another rare squid/cybersecurity intersection, APT37 is also known as “Squid Werewolf.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From insideHPC
Fluidstack to Deploy Exascale GPU Clusters in Europe with NVIDIA, Borealis Data Center and Dell
March 25, 2025 – Fluidstack, an AI cloud platform, announced it is deploying and managing exascale clusters across Iceland and Europe in collaboration with Borealis...12