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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
New Book: A Hacker’s Mind
I have a new book coming out in February. It’s about hacking. A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back isn’t about hacking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the Quantum (Computing) Bubble about to Burst?
Having read so much about working quantum computers, this really struck me ... Full article at Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBLVtCYHVO8The Quantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Launches Warehouse Robot That Can Do Human Jobs
ACM TECHNEWSAmazon Launches Warehouse Robot That Can Do Human Jobs By Financial Times, November 11, 2022Amazon has rolled out a new warehouse robot in order to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Over Surveillance Discovered
See also in Bruce Schneier for further comments. Including link to full report.Technology CybersecurityNSA Watchdog Concluded One Analyst’s Surveillance Project...
From insideHPC
MemVerge Unveils Software-Defined CXL Memory Applications for 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors
MILPITAS, Calif. – NOVEMBER 10, 2022 – Big Memory software comopany MemVerge has announced it has developed software-defined Compute Express Link (CXL) memory management...
From insideHPC
TYAN Announces Systems Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors
Newark, Calif. – November 10, 2022 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, today introduced AMD EPYC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Algorithm Helped Direct Financial Aid to Hurricane Ian Victims
An example of the use of Sat imagery to predict emergency need. Google Algorithm Helped Direct Financial Aid to Hurricane Ian VictimsWired, Chris Stokel-Walker...
From insideHPC
Aurora Update from Argonne, and a Look at Leadership Supercomputing on the Horizon
These are heady days at Argonne National Laboratory -- more particularly, at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which we visited earlier this week. To accommodate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse Replacing Smartphones?
Discussion and more in Twitter: https://twitter.com/koubaak/status/1583163030241972225 Nokias Vision of the world is where the Metaverse replaces Smartphones The...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Over-surveillance
Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that...
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Announces Portfolio of Enterprise Solutions with New AMD EPYC Processors
November 10, 2022 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced its portfolio of products ready toGIGABYTE...
From insideHPC
Ayar Labs Wins $15M Optical I/O Contract from DoD
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Nov. 10, 2022 – Ayar Labs, a developer of chip-to-chip optical connectivity, was awarded a $15 million multi-year prototype Other Transaction...
From insideHPC
Dell Announces PowerEdge Servers with 4th Gen AMD EPYCs
Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) today announced new PowerEdge servers with 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors that the company said delivers more than twice the power...
From insideHPC
AMD Announces GA of 4th Gen EPYC Processors
Today at an AMD event in San Francisco, the company announced the general availability of the 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors built on the “Zen 4” core for data center...
From insideHPC
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Approves Bylaws and Charter for Open Community Control of Rocky Linux and Projects
RENO, Nev.—November 10, 2022—The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) today published its charter and bylaws, documenting the organization’s governing structure...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Coordinated Science Laboratory Releases a White Paper on Key Findings from their Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Social Responsibility
The Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) just released a white paper reflecting ideas that were presented and discussed at the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence...
From Computational Complexity
The Structure of Data and Machine Learning
Terry Tao entitled his 2006 Fields Medal Lecture "The Dichotomy between structure and randomness" and state the Structure Theorem: Every object is a superposition...
From Schneier on Security
An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers
The major browsers natively trust a whole bunch of certificate authorities, and some of them are really sketchy: Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, nonprofit Firefox...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Measuring the memory usage of your C++ program
In C++, we might implement dynamic lists using the vector template. The int-valued constructor of the vector template allocates at least enough memory to storeContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle