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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 Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking on “AI: Trust & Power” at Capricon 45 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at 11:30 AM onBoskone...
From The Noisy Channel
Ground Truth: A Useful Fiction
A key concern about AI is that models “hallucinate” — technical jargon for saying that they make up things that look right. Keeping AI models grounded in truthimplicit...
From Schneier on Security
The First Password on the Internet
It was created in 1973 by Peter Kirstein: So from the beginning I put password protection on my gateway. This had been done in such a way that even if UK users...
From insideHPC
DOE ASCR: $35M Available for HPC Data Management, Proposal Deadline May 13
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, announced that $35 million dollars is available to support...
From insideHPC
Investment Firm: Global Data Center Market to Experience 15% CAGR through 2027
CHICAGO, Jan. 13, 2025 – To meet exponential demand, the data center sector will grow at a phenomenal pace in 2025, according to analyst firm JLL’s 2025 GlobalInvestment...
From insideHPC
ORNL Partners with EPB to Test Quantum Networks Protection
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory joined with network services provider EPB of Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee...
From insideHPC
Telehouse Launches Liquid Cooling Lab with Accelsius, EkkoSense, JetCool and Legrand
13 January 2025 – Telehouse International Corporation of Europe, a data centre service provider, today announces the launch of its liquid cooling lab, following...
From Schneier on Security
Microsoft Takes Legal Action Against AI “Hacking as a Service” Scheme
Not sure this will matter in the end, but it’s a positive move: Microsoft is accusing three individuals of running a “hacking-as-a-service” scheme that was designed...
From Computational Complexity
Random Thought on AI from someone in the REAL WORLD
Guest Post from Nick Sovitch. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------Bill Gasarch recently blogged on RANDOM THOUGHTS ON AI...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
JavaScript hashing speed comparison: MD5 versus SHA-256
Hashing algorithms convert input data into a fixed-size string of characters, known as a hash value or digest. These algorithms are one-way functions, meaning the...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Adrian Stokes: Internet pioneer
We take the Internet for granted now, but it is not that long ago that it did not exist at all. Despite being disabled from birth with spina bifida, Adrian Stokes...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cotton-and-Squid-Bone Sponge
News: A sponge made of cotton and squid bone that has absorbed about 99.9% of microplastics in water samples in China could provide an elusive answer to ubiquitous...
From insideHPC
TSMC: December Monthly Revenue up 58% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Jan. 10, 2025 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for last mont. On a consolidated basis, revenue for December...
From Schneier on Security
Apps That Are Spying on Your Location
404 Media is reporting on all the apps that are spying on your location, based on a hack of the location data company Gravy Analytics: The thousands of apps, included...
From insideHPC
Blackstone Invests $300M in DDN at $5B Valuation
Chatsworth, CA, January 9, 2025 – AI and data intelligence solutions company DDN today announced an investment of $300 million from Blackstone, an alternative asset...
From insideHPC
Hammerspace and Cloudian Partner on Unstructured Data Management
SAN MATEO, Calif. – January 9, 2025 – Data orchestration company Hammerspace and Cloudian, an S3-compatible object storage company, have announced a partnership...
From Computational Complexity
When DO Names Change? When SHOULD Names Change?
BILL: Good news for Jimmy Carter! He won The Betty White Award! (see here).LANCE: That's not good news. He had to die to get it.BILL: Call it a mixed bag. Good...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Herman Hollerith: from punch cards to a special company
Herman Hollerith, the son of immigrants, struggled early on at school and then later in bookkeeping at college but it didn’t stop him inventing machines that used...
From insideHPC