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China Intends to Exceed 300 Exaflops Aggregate Compute Power by 2025
From insideHPC

China Intends to Exceed 300 Exaflops Aggregate Compute Power by 2025

The People's Republic of China, so cagy in recent years regarding its leadership-class supercomputing resources, on Sunday declared its intent to exceed 300 exaflops...

atNorth Announces 30MW Data Center in Copenhagen for HPC, AI
From insideHPC

atNorth Announces 30MW Data Center in Copenhagen for HPC, AI

Reykjavík – October 10th, 2023 –  atNorth, a Nordic colocation for HPC and AI, has announced its expansion into Denmark with a new data center in Ballerup, Greater...

Hitachi Vantara Launches Hybrid Virtual Cloud Storage Platform
From insideHPC

Hitachi Vantara Launches Hybrid Virtual Cloud Storage Platform

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – October 10, 2023 – Hitachi Vantara, an infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today...

AMD Acquires Open-Source AI Software Nod.ai
From insideHPC

AMD Acquires Open-Source AI Software Nod.ai

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 10, 2023 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Nod.ai, intended to expand the company’s...

Model Extraction Attack on Neural Networks
From Schneier on Security

Model Extraction Attack on Neural Networks

Adi Shamir et al. have a new model extraction attack on neural networks: Polynomial Time Cryptanalytic Extraction of Neural Network Models Abstract: Billions of...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Generating Functions and Singularities

Sharpening an analytic tool for regular languages IEEE source for Book, Even, Ott photos Ronald Book, Shimon Even, Sheila Greibach, and Gene Ott proved a fact that...

Book excerpt: The problem is not the algorithm
From Geeking with Greg

Book excerpt: The problem is not the algorithm

(This is an excerpt from the draft of my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more of these.) “The Algorithm,” in scare quotes, is an oft-attacked...

AD Little on Quantum: 4 Myths and 5 Ways to Get Started
From insideHPC

AD Little on Quantum: 4 Myths and 5 Ways to Get Started

Quantum systems will potentially be exponentially more powerful than other forms of computing. That’s a good thing, of course, but it’s also true that quantum is...

FY23 Report Captures Current State of UA-Readiness in Technology
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

FY23 Report Captures Current State of UA-Readiness in Technology

This article was originally published on icann.org By Sarmad Hussain, Sr Director IDN & UA Programs and Seda Akbulut, Universal Acceptance (UA) Program ManagerFY23...

AI Risks
From Schneier on Security

AI Risks

There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. Reading the headlines...

Why the Romans were pants at maths
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Why the Romans were pants at maths

In case you've ever wondered how on earth the Romans multiplied numbers using Roman numerals...

From Computational Complexity

Young Sheldon gets two things spot-on/Am I more famous than.../Might YS become TS?

 Young Sheldon  is a TV show that I used to only watch on airplanes, but then i got into it and am now up to date. The wonders of technology! Note that catching...

Book excerpt: Metrics chasing engagement
From Geeking with Greg

Book excerpt: Metrics chasing engagement

(This is an excerpt from the draft of my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more.) Let’s say you are in charge of building a social media website...

TSMC September Net Revenue Down 13% YoY
From insideHPC

TSMC September Net Revenue Down 13% YoY

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Oct. 6, 2023 – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for September 2023:TSMC...

Revolutionizing Bioscience Research: Creating an Atlas of the Human Body
From insideHPC

Revolutionizing Bioscience Research: Creating an Atlas of the Human Body

Making healthcare and life science (HCLS) discoveries is time-consuming and requires considerable amounts of data. HPC enterprise infrastructure with AI and edge...

Deepfake Election Interference in Slovokia
From Schneier on Security

Deepfake Election Interference in Slovokia

Well designed and well timed deepfake or two Slovokian politicians discussing how to rig the election: Šimečka and Denník N immediately denounced the audio as fake...

Infratil and L&G Capital Increase Investment in  Kao Data
From insideHPC

Infratil and L&G Capital Increase Investment in Kao Data

London, October 5th, 2023 – Kao Data, developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has announced that infrastructure...

Political Disinformation and AI
From Schneier on Security

Political Disinformation and AI

Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other...

From nudge to sludge: a book, and now an academy and an audit
From Putting People First

From nudge to sludge: a book, and now an academy and an audit

Sludge is friction through unnecessary red tape. Cass R. Sunstein wrote a book about it and the OECD is currently exploring the contribution that behavioural science...

NVIDIA, Intel and Google Alums Form Lemurian Labs, Raise $9M for 20X AI Throughput Boost
From insideHPC

NVIDIA, Intel and Google Alums Form Lemurian Labs, Raise $9M for 20X AI Throughput Boost

Toronto – October 4, 2023 — Lemurian Labs today announced it has secured $9 million in seed funding to develop an accelerated computing platform tailored for AI...
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