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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 …
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TYAN Adopts New AMD EPYC 8004 Series Chips for Cloud and Edge Server Deployments
Newark, Calif. – September 18, 2023 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a subsidiary of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, announced availability...
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Linux Foundation: Unified Acceleration Foundation Formed for Open Accelerated Compute and Cross-Platform Performance
BILBAO, SPAIN – September 19, 2023 – Today, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation, a cross-industry group focused...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST to Standardize Encryption Algorithms That Can Resist Attack by Quantum Computers
Last year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set out to create four new algorithms capable of withstanding an attack by quantum computers...
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NSF Invests $72.5M in New Materials Design
Sept. 18, 2023 — A $72.5 million investment from the U.S. National Science Foundation will drive the development of advanced materials needed to address major societal...
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Sylabs Announces SingularityCE 4.0
Reno, NV – (September 19, 2023) – Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, today announced the release of SingularityCE...
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Astera Labs Says Its CXL Memory Controller Boosts Server Memory Bandwidth by 50%
Astera Labs today said its Leo Memory Connectivity Platform is the industry’s first Compute Express Link (CXL) memory controller that increases server memory bandwidth...
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SambaNova: New AI Chip Runs 5 Trillion Parameter Models
Specialty AI chip maker SambaNova Systems today announced the SN40L processor, which the company said will power SambaNova’s full stack large language model (LLM)...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting AI-Generated Text
There are no reliable ways to distinguish text written by a human from text written by an large language model. OpenAI writes: Do AI detectors work? In short,...
From Putting People First
Why do consumers purchase bottled water?
Fast Company published today an excerpt of the new book Unbottled by Daniel Jaffee in which he highlights the five factors why consumers purchase bottled water,...
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CIQ Bundles OpenRadioss and ParaView on Rocky Linux 9.1 for Computation of Shapes
LAS VEGAS, September 18, 2023 — CIQ announced today at Oracle CloudWorld that it has made a software stack for high-performance computation of shapes availableCIQ...
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Livermore Lab Researchers Win 3 R&D 100 Awards
The award winners include a software suite that helps apply deep learning techniques to science and data challenges in cancer research; software that helps better...
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Building a Capable Computing Ecosystem for Exascale
With ECP, working together was a prerequisite for participation. “From the beginning, the teams had this so-called ‘shared fate,’” says Siegel. When incorporating...
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Vertiv Increases Manufacturing Capacity for Chilled Water Solutions
Piove di Sacco, Italy, September 18, 2023 –Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a provider of digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, unveiled an upgraded testing roomVertiv...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Four and More Colors of Mathematics
A memorial to Wolfgang Haken (1928–2022) and more in the AMS Notices This month’s Notices of the American Mathematical Society for October 2023 has just been mailed...
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$100M Series B for Generative AI Platform Writer
SAN FRANCISCO — Writer, a generative AI platform for enterprises, announced its Series B funding round of $100 million today. The round is being led by ICONIQ Growth...
From Putting People First
Digital border governance: a human rights based approach
This collaborative study, conducted by the UN Human Rights Office and the University of Essex, analyses the human rights implications of specific border technologies...
From Schneier on Security
Using Hacked LastPass Keys to Steal Cryptocurrency
Remember last November, when hackers broke into the network for LastPass—a password database—and stole password vaults with both encrypted and plaintext data for...
From Putting People First
[Report] How green is household behaviour?
How Green is Household Behaviour? presents an overview of results from the 2022 OECD Survey on Environmental Policies and Individual Behaviour Change. The survey...
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HPC News Bytes 20230918: New AMD CPUs, Intel FPGAs; Arm IPO and Strategic Pivot; AI for Science
A happy mid-September morning to you. Here's a hop (4:54) through recent HPC news, including: AMD launches new EPYC 8004 CPUs for energy- and space-constrainedHPC...
From Computational Complexity