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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
RIKEN Selects Quantinuum for Hybrid Quantum–HPC Platform
Quantum computing company Quantinuum and Japanese research institution and HPC center RIKEN announced that Quantinuum will provide RIKEN access to its H1-Series...
From Schneier on Security
PIN-Stealing Android Malware
This is an old piece of malware—the Chameleon Android banking Trojan—that now disables biometric authentication in order to steal the PIN: The second notable new...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240108: Ericsson and the Intel 4 Process, AI and VC in 2023, Samsung and CXL for RHEL, Quantum Cybersecurity
A good January morning to you! Here's a brief (5:14) run-down of the latest goings-on in HPC-AI: Ericsson may beat Intel to the Intel 4 process punch, AI a rare...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: A win-win-win for customers, companies, and society
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It") Everyone wins -- companies...
From Schneier on Security
Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy
Last month, I convened the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2023) at the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center. As with IWORD 2022,...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: Use only trustworthy behavior data
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It") Adversaries manipulate...
From Computational Complexity
A nice dice problem- Part I
In this blog I pose a dice problem. The problem is NOT mine and the answer is KNOWN. However, I DO NOT think its well known, and I DO think it's interesting. My...
From Putting People First
Experimenting with GenAI in design research
Cameron Hanson, Strategy Director at Smart Design, gave a presentation at the the Service Design Network (SDN) New York Chapter on practical ways to integrate...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging—18th Anniversary Post: New Species of Pygmy Squid Discovered
They’re Ryukyuan pygmy squid (Idiosepius kijimuna) and Hannan’s pygmy squid (Kodama jujutsu). The second one represents an entire new genus. As usual, you can also...
From insideHPC
Nuvoton Unveils Endpoint AI Platform for Machine Learning
Hsinchu, Taiwan, January 5, 2024 – Nuvoton has announced the Endpoint AI Platform designed to accelerate the development of fully-featured microcontroller (MCU)...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Ken Kennedy Institute Energy HPC Conference, Jan. 15 Deadline
The 17th Annual Energy High Performance Computing Conference hosted by the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University, to be held March 5-7, 2024, has issued an invitation...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: Data and metrics determine what algorithms do
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It") Wisdom of the crowd...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems 2015-2024
In 1994, the FST&TCS conference invited me to give a talk at their meeting in Madras (now Chennai). I was in my tenth year as a complexity theorists since I started...
From insideHPC
Justin Hotard Leaves HPE for Intel, Named EVP/GM of Data Center and AI Group
Intel today announced the appointment of Justin Hotard as executive vice president and general manager of its Data Center and AI Group (DCAI), effective Feb. 1....
From insideHPC
D-Wave Quantum Completes SOC 2 Type 2 Security Audit
PALO ALTO, Calif., BURNABY, B.C., — January 4, 2024 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced the successful completion of its SOC 2 Type 2 audit as of December 7...
From Schneier on Security
New iPhone Exploit Uses Four Zero-Days
Kaspersky researchers are detailing “an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: From hope to despair and back to hope
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It") Twenty five years...
From insideHPC
Intel and DigitalBridge Launch Articul8 Generative AI Company
Intel investment firm and DigitalBridge Group have announced the formation of Articul8 AI, Inc. (Articul8), which they say will develop a generative AI software...
From insideHPC
ATPESC 2024: Applications to Learn about Advanced Computing Due February 28
The annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) is scheduled for July 28-August 9, 2024. The call for applications is open through February...
From Schneier on Security