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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
EuroHPC JU Acquires €8.5M Qilimanjaro Quantum Annealer to be at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Feb. 1, 2025 — The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a procurement contract with Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech for MareNostrum...
From insideHPC
Women in HPC and Alces Flight Announce Move the Needle Project Results
Feb. 3, 2025 — The team at Alces Flight, a UK-based company specializing in high performance computing and volunteers from Women in HPC announced the final report...
From Schneier on Security
Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by Paragon Spyware
This is yet another story of commercial spyware being used against journalists and civil society members. The journalists and other civil society members were...
From insideHPC
Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security
Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoningLos...
From insideHPC
Cerebras Reports Fastest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Inference
Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is record-breaking performance for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B inference, achieving more than 1,500 tokens per second...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains
Interesting. Blog moderation policy.
From insideHPC
Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids...
From Computational Complexity
The Situation at the NSF
The National Science Foundation is one of the agencies most affected by the various executive orders issued by the Trump administration. As a critical funder of...
From The Noisy Channel
To Bot or Not to Bot: It Depends on the Question
I was one of Quora’s earliest users. I earned Top Writer status for several years and even made some money through their Knowledge Prizes. Although I stopped contributing...
From Computational Complexity
The NSF From the Inside
The National Science Foundation is one of the agencies most affected by the various executive orders issued by the Trump administration. As a critical funder of...
From insideHPC
We Want to Hear Your Data Center Disaster Stories!
[SPONSORED CONTENT] DDC Solutions, the maker of patented data center cabinet technology and dynamic management software, and insideHPC are running a contest focused...
From Schneier on Security
Fake Reddit and WeTransfer Sites are Pushing Malware
There are thousands of fake Reddit and WeTransfer webpages that are pushing malware. They exploit people who are using search engines to search sites like Reddit...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Programmer time and the pitfalls of wasteful work
Programmer time is precious. This realization should shape our approach to software development, focusing our efforts on tasks that genuinely contribute to theContinue...
From insideHPC
Emerald Invests in NLM Photonics Data Center Efficiency
SEATTLE, January 29, 2025 – Emerald, a venture capital company, has invested in NLM Photonics to help bring energy-efficient, high performance electro-optic modulation...
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing: Alice & Bob Closes €100M Series B Round
Paris, Jan. 28, 2025 — Quantum computing company Alice & Bob announced a raise of €100 million in its Series B funding round, led by Future French Champions (FFC)...
From insideHPC
DDC Report: Data Center Operators Must Lower Risk Exposure as Costs Rise
SAN DIEGO – January 29, 2025 – DDC Solutions, a provider of data center solutions, today announced the release of their Business Impact Report, “New Considerations...
From Computational Complexity
Lautemann's Beautiful Proof
In writing the drunken theorem post, I realized I never wrote a post on Lautemann's amazing proof that BPP is contained in \(\Sigma^p_2\), the second level of the...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Designing an interactive prayer mat
Successful interactive systems design is often based on detecting a need that really good solutions do not yet exist for, then coming up with a realistic solution...
From Schneier on Security
ExxonMobil Lobbyist Caught Hacking Climate Activists
The Department of Justice is investigating a lobbying firm representing ExxonMobil for hacking the phones of climate activists: The hacking was allegedly commissioned...
From insideHPC