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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
Synopsys to Acquire Ansys
SUNNYVALE, CA and PITTSBURGH, PA, January 16, 2024 – Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS) and Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Submissions: NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability
Below is a call for submissions to the NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability, which has been taken directly from the NSF-WSCS 2024 website. ...
From insideHPC
Q-CTRL and US Geological Survey in Quantum Partnership
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16, 2024 — Quantum software company Q-CTRL announced it has entered a partnership with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to explore potential...
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Red Hat Developer Hub Now Available
RALEIGH, N.C. – JAN. 16, 2024 – Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat Developer Hub, an internal developer platform (IDP) based on Backstage...
From The Noisy Channel
Retroactive Loss of Privacy
We live in an age where we increasingly feel a loss of privacy. Much of our communication, media consumption, and shopping is mediated through platforms that track...
From insideHPC
QuEra and Pawsey Partner on Quantum and HPC
January 16, 2023, Boston and Perth, Australia — Neutral-atom quantum computing company QuEra Computing and Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre today announced...
From Schneier on Security
The Story of the Mirai Botnet
Over at Wired, Andy Greenberg has an excellent story about the creators of the 2016 Mirai botnet.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Ethics – What would you do? Part 2: answers
Answers to our ethical dilemma quiz from yesterday.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Call for Nominations: ACM-W Rising Star Award 2024
We are delighted to announce the opening of nominations for the ACM-W Rising Star Award 2024! This prestigious award honors the outstanding contributions of women...
From The Noisy Channel
Random Thoughts on Interestingness
As a computer scientist and an information scientist, I have always been fascinated by fundamental questions of computational complexity and compressibility. These...
From Schneier on Security
Voice Cloning with Very Short Samples
New research demonstrates voice cloning, in multiple languages, using samples ranging from one to twelve seconds. Research paper.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Ethics – What would you do?
An ethical dilemma quiz with answers coming tomorrow.
From Computational Complexity
A nice dice problem-Part 2
In my last post (see here) I posed a dice problem, promising to give the answer in the next blog which is this blog. Here is the problem from my last blog:-----...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the International PolCampaigns Expo (IPE24) in Cape Town, South Africa, January...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
ICTS 2024 — Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science
In case the Berkeley Simons Institute (1/30–2/2) feels warmer than where you are now Venkatesan Guruswami (University of California, Berkeley) is the chair of the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Estimating your memory bandwidth
One of the limitations of a compute is the memory bandwidth. For the scope of this article, I define “memory bandwidth” as the maximal number of bytes you can bring...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid from Newfoundland in the 1800s
Interesting article, with photographs. 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...
From insideHPC
Google Cloud Waves Exit Fees
Starting January 11, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises, can take advantage...
From Geeking with Greg
My book, Algorithms and Misinformation
Misinformation and disinformation are the biggest problems on the internet. To solve a problem, you need to understand the problem. In Algorithms and Misinformation...
From insideHPC