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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
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,...
From insideHPC
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...
From insideHPC
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...
From insideHPC
$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...
From insideHPC
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
ACM to go paper-free! Good? Bad?
The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) will soon stop having print versions of most its publications. Rather than list which ones are going paper free, Iare...
From Putting People First
UX needs a sense of urgency about AI
"UX professionals must seize the AI career imperative or become irrelevant", writes Jakob Nielsen in his blog UX Tigers, particularly with current AI-driven tools...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cleaning Squid
Two links on how to properly clean squid. I learned a few years ago, in Spain, and got pretty good at it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
From Schneier on Security
LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear
Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. I’m particularly interested in a...
From insideHPC
TSMC Moves Its Renewable Energy Target Forward to 2040
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Sep. 15, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced an acceleration of its RE100 sustainability timetable, moving its target for...
From Schneier on Security
On Technologies for Automatic Facial Recognition
Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people: With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand’s head, Facebook could prevent users from...
From insideHPC
ISC 2024: Call for Presentations Is Open
Hamburg – Call for presentations at ISC 2024 is now open for scientists and engineers from academia, industry and government to contribute discussions of theirISC...
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