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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
Is Persistence an Anachronism?
Guest post by Martin BullingerVery recently, Vijay Vazirani's paper A Theory of Alternating Paths and Blossoms, from the Perspective of Minimum Length got accepted...
From insideHPC
Lenovo Launches AI Servers with AMD MI300X GPUs
Lenovo today announced AI-centric infrastructure systems in collaboration with AMD, including the ThinkSystem SR685a V3 8GPU server (pictured here), designed for...
From Schneier on Security
Dan Solove on Privacy Regulation
Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade, and...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Announcing Rendering History – The Women of ACM-W
We are delighted to announce the newly published book Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W, edited by Gloria Childress Townsend. Townsend was active with the ACM...
From insideHPC
CINECA Selects E4 Computer with Dell and Vast for Galileo 100 HPC Upgrade
April 23, 2024 — E4 Computer Engineering has won the contract to upgrade Galileo 100, CINECA Interuniversity Consortium’s supercomputer and Tier-1 cloud systemCINECA...
From insideHPC
Pasqal and Welinq Partner to Develop Quantum Interconnects
Paris – April 23, 2024 – Neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal and Welinq, a quantum networking company, today announced a partnership intended to to address...
From insideHPC
atNorth Names New Chief Development Officer
Reykjavík, Iceland – April 23, 2024 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced the...
From insideHPC
Xinnor and Versatus Partner on HPC and AI Storage Solutions
Haifa, Israel and San Paulo, Brazil – April 23, 2024: Xinnor, a provider of high-performance software RAID solutions, and Versatus HPC, an advisor and integrator...
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Announces DXi All-Flash Backup Appliances
SAN JOSE, April 23, 2024 — Data management and storage company Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced DXi T-Series all-flash backup appliances to accelerate...
From insideHPC
HPC MARKET UPDATE PRE-ISC24
Registration is now open for Hyperion Research’s annual HPC market update (virtual) session held immediately prior to the ISC24 conference. The annual event is...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Open Problem
Richard Feynman and Gian-Carlo Rota worked on different parts of science during their separate careers. Feynman of course was one of the most important scientists...
From Schneier on Security
Microsoft and Security Incentives
Former senior White House cyber policy director A. J. Grotto talks about the economic incentives for companies to improve their security—in particular, Microsoft...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Designing for autistic people
by Daniel Gill and Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What should you be thinking about when designing for a specific group with specific needs, suchContinue...
From Schneier on Security
Using Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware
Interesting social-engineering attack vector: McAfee released a report on a new LUA malware loader distributed through what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Can you trust a smile?
You're probably pretty good at spotting a fake smile, but how might we teach robots to do the same...
From Computational Complexity
Intelligent Comments on Bill's G.H. Hardy/Avi W post that we did not post.
I posted (see here) about Avi Wigderson being a counterexample to two of G.H. Hardy's opinions:1) Hardy thought Math was a young man's game. I got some good comments...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How do you recognize an expert?
Go back to the roots: experience. An expert is someone who has repeatedly solved the concrete problem you are encountering. If your toilet leaks, an experienced...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How quickly can you break a long string into lines?
Suppose that you receive a long string and you need to break it down into lines. Consider the simplified problems where you need to break the string into segments...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Trackers
A new bioadhesive makes it easier to attach trackers to squid. Note: the article does not discuss squid privacy rights. As usual, you can also use this squid post...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP