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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid
Long article on the colossal squid. Blog moderation policy.
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Addison Snell on the Present and Future of HPC-AI, Quantum, DeepSeek, Interconnects, Leadership Supercomputing
We delve into current market sizing for HPC-AI (the conjoining of the two being a relatively new focus), a look ahead at the rest of the year and the decade, the...
From Schneier on Security
Screenshot-Reading Malware
Kaspersky is reporting on a new type of smartphone malware. The malware in question uses optical character recognition (OCR) to review a device’s photo library,...
From insideHPC
Barcelona Supercomputing Center Unveils Quantum Systen Developed with 100% European Technology
Feb. 6, 2025 — The Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) – has presented what it said is the first quantum computer developed...
From insideHPC
DOE Office of Science: Applications for Graduate Student Research Awards Due May 7
Feb. 7, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting...
From insideHPC
Sandia Rolls out Custom Instance of ChatGPT — SandiaAI Chat
In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories began providing its employees with a large language model chatbot, called SandiaAI Chat, which the lab said is the first...
From insideHPC
MOSTLY AI Releases Open Source Toolkit for Synthetic Data Creation
4 February 2025, Vienna – Austrian synthetic data startup MOSTLY AI announces the release of the world’s first industry-grade open source toolkit for producingMOSTLY...
From insideHPC
IQM, Riverlane and Zurich Instruments to Launch Quantum Error Correction Platform
Cambridge, UK; Espoo, Finland; Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 6, 2025 – IQM Quantum Computers, Riverlane, and Zurich Instruments have announced the launch of the SurgeonQ...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
A puzzle, spies … and a beheading
A puzzle about secrets Ayo wants to send her friends Guang and Elham who live together secret messages that only the person she sends the message to can read. She...
From Schneier on Security
AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic
Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Launches Rack-Scale Systems with NVIDIA Blackwell
San Jose, Calif. – February 5, 2025 – Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) announced full availability of its AI data center Building Block Solutions accelerated by...
From Schneier on Security
On Generative AI Security
Microsoft’s AI Red Team just published “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” Their blog post lists “three takeaways,” but the eight lessons in...
From insideHPC
With Accelerator SOC, South Korean Institute Says Country on Track to Become 5th HPC Manufacturer
The ETRI said that after its commercialization, this technology "will be a game-changer for Korea to become the world’s fifth nation to manufacture supercomputers...
From insideHPC
Trane Expands Thermal Management with Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling
DAVIDSON, N.C., Feb. 4, 2025 – Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate company, announced the expansion of its thermal management systems. ATrane...
From Schneier on Security
Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election
Interesting analysis: We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LLNL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers
The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons...
From insideHPC
EuroHPC JU Acquires €8.5M Qilimanjaro Quantum Annealer to be at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Feb. 1, 2025 — The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a procurement contract with Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech for MareNostrum...
From insideHPC
Women in HPC and Alces Flight Announce Move the Needle Project Results
Feb. 3, 2025 — The team at Alces Flight, a UK-based company specializing in high performance computing and volunteers from Women in HPC announced the final report...
From Schneier on Security
Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by Paragon Spyware
This is yet another story of commercial spyware being used against journalists and civil society members. The journalists and other civil society members were...
From insideHPC