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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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Dina St Johnston: Kickstarting a software industry
Back in its early days, after the war, women played a pivotal role in the computing industry, originally as skilled computer operators. Soon they started to beContinue...
From Schneier on Security
Device Code Phishing
This isn’t new, but it’s increasingly popular: The technique is known as device code phishing. It exploits “device code flow,” a form of authentication formalized...
From insideHPC
Securiti Partners with Databricks Enterprise AI System Safety
SAN JOSE, February 19, 2025 – Securiti, a data security, privacy, governance and compliance company , today announced that it has partnered with Databricks, the...
From Computational Complexity
Tomorrow and Yesterday
I recently completed Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, a book recommended by many including the City of Chicago. The novel covers the decades...
From insideHPC
SambaNova Reports Fastest DeepSeek-R1 671B with High Efficiency
Palo Alto, CA – Generative AI company SambaNova announced last week that DeepSeek-R1 671B is running today on SambaNova Cloud at 198 tokens per second (t/s), “achieving...
From insideHPC
CEA and Quobly Report Simultaneous, Microsecond Qubit-Readout Solution with 10x Power-Use Cut
SAN FRANCSCO – Feb. 18, 2025 – CEA-Leti, in its collaboration with Quobly, CEA-List and CEA-Irig, reported today it has developed a solution using FD-SOI CMOS technology...
From insideHPC
Data Center Cooling: Carrier Invests in Direct-to-Chip Liquid Provider ZutaCore
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Feb. 18, 2025 — Climate and energy company Carrier Global Corp. (NYSE: CARR) announced that its venture group, Carrier Ventures, is leading...
From insideHPC
Vultr Announces Availability of AMD MI325X GPUs in its Cloud Infrastructure
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.– Cloud infrastructure company Vultr today announced the deployment of the AMD Instinct MI325X GPUs in its Chicago data center region, making...
From insideHPC
VAST Data Adds Blocks to Unified Storage Platform
VAST Data today announced the addition of block storage to its data platform, completing what the company said is its initial vision for the VAST DataStore as a...
From Schneier on Security
Story About Medical Device Security
Ben Rothke relates a story about me working with a medical device firm back when I was with BT. I don’t remember the story at all, or who the company was. But it...
From insideHPC
VyperCore Launches Compute Accelerator Evaluation Platform
Cambridge, United Kingdom – 17 February 2025 – VyperCore has launched VyperLab, a cloud-based evaluation platform that the company said allows Lead Partners toVyperCore...
From insideHPC
Modern Hydrogen and Mesa Solutions Partner on Clean Power for Data Centers
Houston — Modern Hydrogen, a hydrogen production and carbon management company, and Mesa Solutions, a provider of on-site power generation, announced a partnership...
From Schneier on Security
Atlas of Surveillance
The EFF has released its Atlas of Surveillance, which documents police surveillance technology across the US.
From Computational Complexity
Big Breakthrough in the exciting world of sum-free sets!
Let \([n]\) be the set \(\{1,\ldots,n\}\). (This is standard.)Let X be a set of integers. \(X\) is sum-free if there is NO \(x,y,z\in X\) such that \(x+y=z\)....
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The logic behind syntactic sugar
Computer Scientists talk about “Syntactic Sugar” when talking about programming languages. But in what way might a program be made sweet? It is all about how necessary...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
AVX-512 gotcha: avoid compressing words to memory with AMD Zen 4 processors
The recent AMD processors (Zen 4) provide extensive support for the powerful AVX-512 instructions. AVX-512 (Advanced Vector Extensions 512) is an extension to the...
From insideHPC
Exascale: GE Aerospace Goes Airborne with Frontier and Aurora
Since 2022, GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) has competed successfully for more than 3 million supercomputing hours under a U.S. Department of Energy peer-reviewed proposal...
From insideHPC
SNIA Announces Regional SDC Denver Event for April 30
Santa Clara, CA., February 13, 2025 –SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association, has announced its 2nd annual Regional SDC conference, Regional SDC Denver...
From insideHPC
Synopsys Expands Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio for Semiconductor Design
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 13, 2025 — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the expansion of its hardware-assisted verification (HAV) portfolio with new HAPS...
From Schneier on Security