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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 Computational Complexity
FOCS 2024 Test of Time Award. Call for nominations and my opinion
The call for nominations for the Test of Time Award at FOCS 2024 has been posted here.Eligibility and past winners are here.Points1) It is good to have an award...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
3 examples of grand challenges that had successful outcomes
In the rapidly evolving landscape of computing, grand challenges emerge as pivotal milestones that shape the trajectory of technological advancement and societal...
From insideHPC
Qumulo Announces AI Infrastructure Benchmark Results with Azure Native Qumulo
SEATTLE – June 3rd, 2024 – Today, data storage and management company Qumulo said it achieved the industry’s fastest and most cost-effective cloud-native storage...
From insideHPC
Pinecone Names Lauren Nemeth COO ad Bob Muglia as Board Member
NEW YORK, June 3, 2024 – Vector database AI company Pinecone today announced that Lauren Nemeth and Bob Muglia have joined the company as chief operating officer...
From Schneier on Security
Seeing Like a Data Structure
Technology was once simply a tool—and a small one at that—used to amplify human intent and capacity. That was the story of the industrial revolution: we could control...
From Schneier on Security
AI Will Increase the Quantity—and Quality—of Phishing Scams
A piece I coauthored with Fredrik Heiding and Arun Vishwanath in the Harvard Business Review: Summary. Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Most Important Number
It seems like we’ve been noticing 34 everywhere we look lately, whether it’s on billboards, in phone numbers, or even inside fortune cookies. Is it all just a coincidence...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
From Egyptian Survey puzzles to computational thinking
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One way to use logical thinking is to deduce new facts but then turn them into IF-THEN rules. They tell us an action...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Baby Colossal Squid
This video might be a juvenile colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered....
From insideHPC
CEA-Leti Reports 3-Layer Integration, Progress toward AI-Embedded CMOS Image Sensors
DENVER – May 31, 2024 – CEA-Leti scientists have reported three projects at ECTC 2024 that they say are steps to enabling CMOS image sensors (CIS) that can exploit...
From Schneier on Security
How AI Will Change Democracy
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to predict that artificial intelligence will affect every aspect of our society. Not by doing new things. But mostly by doing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Quickly checking whether a string needs escaping
In software, we often represent strings by surrounding them with quotes ("). What happens if the string itself contains quotes? We then need to escape the string...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Never reason from the results of a sampling profiler
In the quest for software optimization, a trusty companion is the sampling profiler, a tool available in most programming languages. These profilers work unobtrusively...
From insideHPC
Lenovo and Cisco Announce AI Partnership
May 30, 2024 – Lenovo and Cisco today unveiled a partnership intended to deliver fully integrated infrastructure and networking solutions designed to accelerate...
From insideHPC
Quantum: Photonic Demonstrates Distributed Entanglement between Modules
VANCOUVER, BC, May 30, 2024—Photonic Inc., a distributed quantum computing in silicon company, today announced what the company said is a milestone on the pathQuantum...
From insideHPC
Eviden to Deliver Supercomputer for University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Paris - May 30, 2024 - Eviden today announces that it has been selected by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) to supply the university with a newEviden...
From insideHPC
Ultra Accelerator Link Group for Data Center AI Connectivity Formed: AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft
BEAVERTON, Ore.– AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft today announced they have aligned to develop a new industry...
From Schneier on Security
Supply Chain Attack against Courtroom Software
No word on how this backdoor was installed: A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a...
From insideHPC
Report: New ASML Machines Could Produce Denser, Cheaper Advanced Chips
ASML, whose chip manufacturing machines produce advanced microprocessors used for HPC and AI, says it has set a new chipmaking density record with its new High-NA...
From insideHPC