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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
ExaWind: Wind Turbine CFD Simulation on Frontier Exascale
The Exascale Comuting Project’s ExaWind suite of computational fluid dynamics codes are designed to develop predictive simulations of wind farms that contain dozens...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces System for Searching DOE IP
RICHLAND, Wash., July 31, 2024 — The US Department of Energy has created a database designed to make ideas, technologies, methods and software developed by DOEDOE...
From Schneier on Security
Nearly 7% of Internet Traffic Is Malicious
Cloudflare reports on the state of applications security. It claims that 6.8% of Internet traffic is malicious. And that CVEs are exploited as quickly as 22 minutes...
From insideHPC
Parallel Works Launches ACTIVATE for AI Model Training, HPC Simulation and Research
CHICAGO – July 31, 2024 – Parallel Works today announced the launch of ACTIVATE, an artificial intelligence and high performance computing control plane that simplifies...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Holly Yanco Joins DAPRA ISAT Group
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce another council member, Holly Yanco, has been appointed to the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
From insideHPC
Micron Announces Volume Production of 9th-Generation NAND Flash
BOISE, Idaho, July 30, 2024 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), announced today that it is shipping ninth-generation (G9) TLC NAND in SSDs, making it the first...
From Schneier on Security
Providing Security Updates to Automobile Software
Auto manufacturers are just starting to realize the problems of supporting the software in older models: Today’s phones are able to receive updates six to eight...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Photogrammetry for fun, preservation and research – digitally stitching together 2D photographs to visualise the 3D world.
Photogrammetry, a way of creating a 3D representation from lots of overlapping 2D phototgraphs, has been around since the 1800s and is now being used by games designers...
From insideHPC
Quantistry and IQM Quantum to Explore Solutions for Chemical and Material Industry
Berlin and Munich, 29thJuly 2024 – Quantistry, a Berlin-based start-up offering a cloud-native chemical simulation platform, and IQM Quantum Computers announced...
From insideHPC
Iceotope Announces Retirement of CEO David Craig
London, 29th July 2024 – Liquid cooling company Iceotope has announced the retirement of David Craig from the position of CEO effective from 30th September 2024...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Announces Roadmap for Quantum Cloud Service for AI/ML
PALO ALTO, Calif. – July 29, 2024 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced it is strengthening the connection between quantum optimization, artificial intelligence...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Music & Computing: TouchKeys: getting more from your keyboard
TouchKeys - using computer science and electronics to let pianists shape the notes their keyboards make.
From The Noisy Channel
Search and the Art of Conversation
What is the job of a search application? A common answer is that it needs to return the best results for a query, sorted in relevance order. While this answer sounds...
From Schneier on Security
New Research in Detecting AI-Generated Videos
The latest in what will be a continuing arms race between creating and detecting videos: The new tool the research project is unleashing on deepfakes, called “MISLnet...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Global Chapter Summit 2024
The inaugural ACM-W Global Chapter Summit 2024 took place on May 22, 2024. This virtual event provided a forum for global ACM-W chapters to meet. Participants could...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Evolution of iPhone storage capacity
People who should know better often underestimate how fast our storage capacity has grown. We have been able to get 1 TB of storage on iPhones for the last three...
From Computational Complexity
In the future we will all have songs written about us, and it will be Lance's fault.
In response to my blog post about how its easier to FIND novelty songs (and other things) than it used to be (see here) Lance showed how easy it is to CREATE ahere...
From Putting People First
Two reports on the current state of user research
Maze and User Interviews, both USA-based entities providing user research platforms and user panels, published reports in the last months on the current state of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Storage costs are plummeting
Storage costs are plummeting like a skydiver in freefall—between 10 and 100 times cheaper with each passing decade. Meanwhile, the programmer population is growing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog