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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
Hacking the “Bike Angels” System for Moving Bikeshares
I always like a good hack. And this story delivers. Basically, the New York City bikeshare program has a system to reward people who move bicycles from full stations...
From insideHPC
January 14 Deadline: NSF $15M Funding Opportunity to Safeguard Open Source Ecosystems
Sept. 23, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation launched a $15 million funding opportunity to address vulnerabilities of open-source ecosystems. Preliminary...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: A Look Into A Pilot Project to Enhance Data Access
The National Science Data Fabric (NSDF) is an pilot project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), designed to enhance data access and management for...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Game Season Two Teaser
The teaser for Squid Game Season Two dropped. Blog moderation policy.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Women In Theory
My dear wife, Kathryn Farley, just woke me this Friday the 20th from a nap with something that she said was amazing. She told me it was the top most viewed video...
From insideHPC
Virtual Webinar: Transforming Physics Simulations with Ansys and Microsoft Azure
[SPONSORED VIDEO]: Check out this virtual webinar introducing Ansys Access on Microsoft Azure, a newly released option designed to streamline the transition toVirtual...
From Schneier on Security
Clever Social Engineering Attack Using Captchas
This is really interesting. It’s a phishing attack targeting GitHub users, tricking them to solve a fake Captcha that actually runs a script that is copied to the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: Two AI Institutes Launched To Help Astronomers Understand the Universe
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing the exciting launch of two AI Institutes funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and...
From Schneier on Security
FBI Shuts Down Chinese Botnet
The FBI has shut down a botnet run by Chinese hackers: The botnet malware infected a number of different types of internet-connected devices around the world,...
From insideHPC
HSBC and Quantinuum Pilot Quantum Security for Tokenized Gold
Sept. 19, 2023, London – HSBC, a British bank and financial services group, announced today that it has successfully trialled quantum-secure technology for buying...
From insideHPC
LiquidStack Secures $20M Series B Funding from Tiger Global
CARROLLTON, Texas, September 19, 2024 — LiquidStack today announced it has secured a $20 million Series B extension investment from leading investment firm Tiger...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACMW Celebrating Technology Leaders Episode 15: Generative AI in Enterprise Software
We are at the forefront of a technological revolution where generative AI is redefining the boundaries of what’s possible within enterprise environments. In episode...
From insideHPC
SiFive Introduces Intelligence XM Series for AI
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– RISC-V computing company SiFive announced the SiFive Intelligence XM Series designed for accelerating high performance AI workloads. This is...
From Computational Complexity
Embracing the Future of Manufacturing
Last week I walked around the International Manufacturing Technology Show with 89,000 other participants at the McCormick Center in Chicago. I went to see how AI...
From The Noisy Channel
Seriously or Literally?
The other day, I posted about the need for search applications to take searchers seriously, not literally. This need holds even when searchers practically ask to...
From insideHPC
David Padua to Receive Ken Kennedy HPC Award
David A. Padua, professor emeritus in Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been named the recipient of the 2024 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy...
From insideHPC
The Next Big Interconnect Technology Could Be Plastic
.... large language models and generative AI applications are driving hyperscalers to adopt a new data center-scale switch fabric, called the AI backend network...
From insideHPC
NCSA and CliMAS to Host Climate Supercomputing Summit Sept. 29-Oct. 2
Champaign-Urbana, IL, Sept. 17, 2024 — The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Univerity of Illinois’ Department of Climate, Meteorology...
From insideHPC
e6data Raises $10M for Analytics Engine
San Francisco – September 17, 2024; In today’s digital-first landscape, enterprises rely on powerful data and AI capabilities to fuel innovation, enhance customer...
From insideHPC