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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
TSMC March 2024 Revenue Report: Up 34% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Apr. 10, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for March 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for March...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visioning Workshop Report Released: The Future of Research on Social Technologies
In November 2023, CCC hosted a workshop on “The Future of Research on Social Technologies” in Washington, DC. The event, also supported by the John S. and James...
From Schneier on Security
In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024
Last week I posted a short memorial of Ross Anderson. The Communications of the ACM asked me to expand it. Here’s the longer version.
From insideHPC
MIPS Adds 3 Managers from NVIDIA, Google and SiFive
SAN JOSE – April 09, 2024 – MIPS, a developer of efficient and configurable IP compute cores, today announced the addition of three technology and semiconductor...
From insideHPC
Vermont Tech Hub to Manufacture Gallium Nitrade Chips
Berlin, Vt. – The state of Vermont announced its Tech Hub V-GaN will produce Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors. GaN advocates say the chips are more efficient...
From Computational Complexity
Rance Cleaveland passed away on March 27, 2024. He will be missed
My friend and colleague Rance Cleaveland passed away on March 27, 2024 at the age of 62. He was a professor at The University of Maryland at College Park in the...
From Schneier on Security
US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack
US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. It was a serious attack that From the executive summary: The...
From insideHPC
TSMC in the USA: Up to $6.6B in CHIPS Act Funding for 3rd (2nm or More) Arizona Fab
TSMC announced it has signed a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Commerce for up to $6.6 billion under the CHIPS and Science Act. TSMC also announced...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visioning Workshop Teaser: The Future of Research on Social Technologies
In a world where social technologies dominate our daily interactions, it is crucial to understand their profound impact on our lives. Last year, CCC brought together...
From The Noisy Channel
AI-Powered Search: Embedding-Based Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
When search application developers consider replacing a traditional search architecture with AI-powered search, they usually have two things in mind. The firstbag...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240408: Chips Ahoy! …and Quantum Error Rate Progress
A good April morning to you! Chips dominate the HPC-AI news landscape, which has become something of an industry commonplace of late, including: TSMC’s ArizonaHPC...
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerability of HTML Emails
This is a newly discovered email vulnerability: The email your manager received and forwarded to you was something completely innocent, such as a potential customer...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Computers that read emotions
We can add emotion to our text communication using symbols but will computers be able to work out what we're saying?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
C++ web app with Crow: early scalability results
Last year, I looked at writing small “hello world” web applications in various programming languages (Go, JavaScript, Nim…). Go, using nothing but the standardContinue...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: SqUID Bots
They’re AI warehouse robots. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting...
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Announces ActiveScale All-Flash Object Storage for AI, Data Lakes and Storage Clouds
SAN JOSE, April 2, 2024 — Data management and storage company Quantum Corporation today announces ActiveScale Z200 all-flash object storage, designed to help customers...
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies and Northwestern Medicine Adopt Generative AI for Patient Diagnosis
ROUND ROCK – April 5, 2024 — Dell Technologies and Northwestern Medicine are using AI to innovate and strengthen patient care to deliver advancements in medicine...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Neurodiversity and what it takes to be a good programmer
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London People often suggest neurodiverse people make good computer scientists. For example, one of the most famous autistic...
From insideHPC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Unveils IBM Quantum System One
TROY, NY, April 5, 2024 — Today, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM unveiled the first IBM quantum computer on a university campus. Building on RPI’s...
From Schneier on Security