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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: Squid Catch Quotas in Peru
Peru has set a lower squid quota for 2024. The article says “giant squid,” but that seems wrong. We don’t eat those. As usual, you can also use this squid posthere...
From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2024
This week, I hosted the seventeenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is the first workshop since our co-founder, Ross...
From insideHPC
Taking Liquid Cooling to Next Level: Sandia Researchers Say Direct Immersion Technique May Cut Power Use by 70%
.... by directly submergining electrical circuits and components in fluid that does not conduct electricity, Sandia National Laboratories researchers are taking...
From Schneier on Security
The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet
The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet: According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged...
From insideHPC
Livermore Lab and BridgeBio Announce Human Trials for HPC-Discovered Cancer Drug
In what Lawrence Livermore National Lab said is "a substantial milestone for supercomputing-aided drug design," LLNL and BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics todayLivermore...
From Schneier on Security
Espionage with a Drone
The US is using a World War II law that bans aircraft photography of military installations to charge someone with doing the same thing with a drone.
From insideHPC
Pete Ungaro Named to Simr Board
LOS ALTOS, Calif., June 6, 2024 — Simr, formerly known as UberCloud, which provides a platform for using compute resources with simulation tools, today announced...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Extends Agreement with Aramco Europe to Explore Quantum-Powered Optimization of Geophysical Problems
PALO ALTO, Calif. – June 6, 2024 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) announced today that it has extended its agreement with energy company Aramco to manage geophysical...
From Computational Complexity
The Godzilla Moment
On the plane earlier this week I got around to watching the Academy Award winning movie Godzilla Minus One, one of the best monster movies I've seen set in Japan...
From insideHPC
Quantinuum Launches Trapped-Ion 56-Qubit Quantum Computer
BROOMFIELD, CO, and LONDON, June 5, 2024 – Integrated quantum computing company Quantinuum today unveiled what the company said is the industry’s first quantumQuantinuum...
From insideHPC
JPMorgan Chase, Argonne and Quantinuum Show Theoretical Quantum Optimization Speedup
June 5, 2024 — In a new paper in Science Advances on May 29, researchers at JPMorgan Chase, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and...
From insideHPC
Eviden Reports on New Contract Wins and Technology (HPC, AI, Quantum, As-a-Service) Updates
At ISC 2024, we were given a tour of the Eviden booth, which – being the focal point at the conference of Europe’s leading HPC-AI systems vendor – was a beehive...
From insideHPC
Q-CTRL Reports Optimization Problem Records
London, June 5, 2024 – Quantum infrastructure software company Q-CTRL today announced published results that the company says demonstrate a boost of more than 4X...
From insideHPC
NSF Awards Additional $9.8M to NCSA for Delta, DeltaAI HPC
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Illinois was recently awarded $4.9 million of supplemental funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation...
From insideHPC
Supercomputer Funding for BC Universities in Canada for Research in Health Care and More
June 3, 2024 — The Government of British Columbia and the Digital Research Alliance of Canad are investing over $81M into the supercomputers at Simon Fraser University...
From insideHPC
Montana State Selects ORCA Computing for Distributed Quantum Computing and Communications
LONDON and AUSTIN, June 5, 2024 — ORCA Computing, a quantum computing company, has been selected by Montana State University (MSU) to supply two PT-1 quantum photonics...
From Schneier on Security
Online Privacy and Overfishing
Microsoft recently caught state-backed hackers using its generative AI tools to help with their attacks. In the security community, the immediate questions weren...
From insideHPC
VAST Data to be Data Platform for Cisco Nexus HyperFabric for GenAI with Nvidia
NEW YORK & LAS VEGAS – June 4, 2024 – AI data platform company VAST Data today at Cisco Live 2024 announced it is collaborating with Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking a Password Manager
Interesting story of breaking the security of the RoboForm password manager in order to recover a cryptocurrency wallet password. Grand and Bruno spent months reverse...
From insideHPC