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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
AI Startup Partners with Princeton on DARPA In-Memory AI Chip Project
An AI startup co-founded by a Princeton University professor has won an $18.6 million DOD grant to develop an in-memory chip built to deliver faster, more efficient...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance through Push Notifications
The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies...
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Exascale: E4S Software Deployments Boost Iindustry Acceptance of Accelerators
Last November at SC23, industry leaders reflected on successful deployments of the Exascale Computing Project’s Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S). They...
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LiquidStack Opens Manufacturing Facility and Global HQ in Texas
CARROLLTON, TX–March 5, 2024– Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced its new U.S. manufacturing site and headquarters in Carrollton, Texas...
From Schneier on Security
The Insecurity of Video Doorbells
Consumer Reports has analyzed a bunch of popular Internet-connected video doorbells. Their security is terrible. First, these doorbells expose your home IP address...
From insideHPC
AMD Hires Former Oak Ridge Director Thomas Zacharia
AMD today announced that Thomas Zacharia, former director of Oak Ridge National Laborary, has joined AMD as senior vice president of strategic technology partnerships...
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Women in HPC Launches Call for Submissions for 2nd Annual ISC Solution Forum Takeover
Now in its second year, Women in HPC will partner with ISC 2024 to present a diverse and inclusive event on the exhibition floor coinciding with the May 13th Exhibitor...
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Groq Acquires Definitive Intelligence to Launch GroqCloud
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 1, 2024 — AI technology company Groq has acquired Definitive Intelligence to launch GroqCloud, “a new developer playground with fully...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Research Visioning for Positive Impact of Automated Systems
As automated systems become increasingly integrated into society, so do the number of people they impact. This means creators of these systems need to exercise...
From Schneier on Security
LLM Prompt Injection Worm
Researchers have demonstrated a worm that spreads through prompt injection. Details: In one instance, the researchers, acting as attackers, wrote an email including...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The Social Machine of Maths
by Ursula Martin, University of Oxfordand Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London In school we learn about the maths that others have invented: results that...
From Computational Complexity
The letter to recommend John Nash was ``The Best Recomendation Letter Ever''- I do not think so.
There is an article about the letter Richard Duffin wrote for John Nash that helped John Nash get into Princeton: here. The title of the article is The Best Recommendation...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Extinct Species of Vampire Squid Discovered
Paleontologists have discovered a 183-million-year-old species of vampire squid. Prior research suggests that the vampyromorph lived in the shallows off an island...
From insideHPC
NERSC Call for Proposals: Generative AI for Science, April 1 Deadline
NERSC is inviting proposals for projects that will leverage NERSC’s Perlmutter supercomputer to push the state of the art in Generative AI (GenAI) and deep learning...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Dominic Welsh, 1938–2023
My doctoral thesis advisor Geoffrey Grimmett source Dominic Welsh passed away last November 30th. He was my doctoral advisor 1981–86 at Merton College, Oxford University...
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AI Robotics Startup Attracting $675M from Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Bezos
Start up robotics company Figure, founded in 2022 and based in Sunnyvale, CA, is in the process of attracting $675 million in venture funding from the likes ofAI...
From insideHPC
Registration for RMACC HPC Symposium Opens March 5
BOULDER, CO – Registration opens March 5th for the 14th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium, setRegistration...
From Schneier on Security
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
NIST has released version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Framework: The CSF 2.0, which supports implementation of the National Cybersecurity Strategy, has an expanded...
From insideHPC
IT Survey: Multiple Hurdles for AI Implementation but Funding Is There
Implementation of AI has its own challenges, and according to a new survey, proving the value of AI solutions to businesses might be the biggest one. AccordingIT...
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