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Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets
From Schneier on Security

Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets

Here’s a supply-chain attack just waiting to happen. A group of researchers searched for, and then registered, abandoned Amazon S3 buckets for about $400. These...

Why Tier 0 Is a Game-Changer for GPU Storage
From insideHPC

Why Tier 0 Is a Game-Changer for GPU Storage

In tech, you’re either forging new paths or stuck in traffic. Tier 0 doesn’t just clear the road — it builds the autobahn. It obliterates inefficiencies, crushes...

Quantum: QuEra Completes $230M Financing from Google, SoftBank and Others
From insideHPC

Quantum: QuEra Completes $230M Financing from Google, SoftBank and Others

Boston – February 11, 2025 – QuEra Computing, a neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced it has successfully completed a financing of more than $230 million...

Trusted Encryption Environments
From Schneier on Security

Trusted Encryption Environments

Really good—and detailed—survey of Trusted Encryption Environments (TEEs.)

Laser-Based LightSolver Partners With Ansys on CAE
From insideHPC

Laser-Based LightSolver Partners With Ansys on CAE

TEL AVIV – February 11, 2025 – LightSolver, inventors of a new laser-based computing paradigm, today announced a partnership with Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS), a provider...

Photonic Reports Quantum Error Correction Advance
From insideHPC

Photonic Reports Quantum Error Correction Advance

VANCOUVER, BC, February 11, 2025  – Photonic Inc. has introduced a low-overhead family of Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes that can efficiently perform...

Digihost to Develop HPC and AI-Tier Data Centers
From insideHPC

Digihost to Develop HPC and AI-Tier Data Centers

MIAMI, Feb. 11, 2025 — Digihost Technology Inc. announced the formation of US Data Centers, Inc. (USDC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company dedicated to development...

MLCommons Releases AILuminate LLM v1.1 with French Language Capabilities
From insideHPC

MLCommons Releases AILuminate LLM v1.1 with French Language Capabilities

Paris – February 11, 2025: MLCommons, in partnership with the AI Verify Foundation, today released v1.1 of AILuminate, incorporating new French language capabilities...

Justin Hotard Leaves Intel, Named CEO and President of Nokia
From insideHPC

Justin Hotard Leaves Intel, Named CEO and President of Nokia

The long-term high turnover rate at Intel of senior managers holding HPC and AI-related responsibilities continues apace with today's news that Justin Hotard, EVP...

Final Call for CCC Council Nominations
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Final Call for CCC Council Nominations

This Friday, February 14 is your last chance to nominate yourself or a colleague to be a CCC Council member for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2025 and concluding...

HPC News Bytes 20250210: Big AI CAPEX Binge, More Data Center SMRs, Euro-Origin Quantum, Softbank Eyes Ampere
From insideHPC

HPC News Bytes 20250210: Big AI CAPEX Binge, More Data Center SMRs, Euro-Origin Quantum, Softbank Eyes Ampere

Good post-Super Bowl morning to you! The past week was somewhat calm relative to the riotous preceding period in the world of HPC-AI, but still, important developments...

Nuclear Power: X-Energy Closes $700M Round for SMR Development
From insideHPC

Nuclear Power: X-Energy Closes $700M Round for SMR Development

ROCKVILLE, Md., February 6, 2025 – X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC (“X-energy”), a leader in advanced nuclear reactor and fuel technology, today announced the closing...

TSMC January 2025 Revenue Report and Earthquake Impact Statement
From insideHPC

TSMC January 2025 Revenue Report and Earthquake Impact Statement

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Feb. 10, 2025 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for January 2025: On a consolidated basis, revenue for January...

atNorth Awarded Iceland Infrastructure Prize
From insideHPC

atNorth Awarded Iceland Infrastructure Prize

Reykjavík, Iceland – February 10th,  2025 – atNorth, the Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announced...

Pairwise Authentication of Humans
From Schneier on Security

Pairwise Authentication of Humans

Here’s an easy system for two humans to remotely authenticate to each other, so they can be sure that neither are digital impersonations. To mitigate that risk...

A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process
From Writing

A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process

I originally posted this article on Y Combinator’s blog on January 22, 2016 (Internet Archive link), but it seems like they have taken it down, so I’m reposting...

From Computational Complexity

Does Lance dislike Ramsey Theory Because he's colorblind?

BILL: Lance, my wife asked if you dislike Ramsey Theory because you are colorblind.LANCE: (laughs) It's why I don't like Ramsey Theory talks--impossible for meTen...

Peter Landin: Elegance from Logic
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Peter Landin: Elegance from Logic

Celebrating LGBTQ+ Greats Thousands of programming languages have been invented in the many decades since the first. But what makes a good language? A key ideaContinue...

UK is Ordering Apple to Break its Own Encryption
From Schneier on Security

UK is Ordering Apple to Break its Own Encryption

The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring...

Thread-safe memory copy
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Thread-safe memory copy

A common operation in software is the copy of a block of memory. In C/C++, we often call the function memcpy for this purpose. But what happens if, while you are...
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