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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
Troy Hunt Gets Phished
In case you need proof that anyone, even people who do cybersecurity for a living, Troy Hunt has a long, iterative story on his webpage about how he got phished...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Language-mangling rude word filters
What we have here on the right is a water butt also known as a rainwater tank. These are large containers which collect rainwater so are an environmentally friendly...
From insideHPC
Report: TSMC to Operate Intel Fabs under Tentative Joint Venture
The online technology publication The Information reported today that Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have reached a tentative agreement to...
From insideHPC
Sandia Labs Tests Laser-Based Photonic Data Center Cooling
Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into an R&D agreement with Sandia and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling...
From insideHPC
Alice & Bob Selected by DARPA for the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Boston and Paris – April 3, 2025 – Fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob today announces its selection as a performer in the U.S. Defense Advanced...
From insideHPC
Data Center Cooling: PFCC and ENEOS Collaborate on Materials R&D with NVIDIA ALCHEMI Software
March 31, 2025 — Preferred Computational Chemistry Inc. (PFCC) announces that it will team up with ENEOS Corp. to enable AI-driven formulation optimization of chemicals...
From Schneier on Security
Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity
If you’ve ever taken a computer security class, you’ve probably learned about the three legs of computer security—confidentiality, integrity, and availability—known...
From insideHPC
Lightmatter Announces Passage L200, Co-Packaged Optics for AI
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.– Photonic supercomputing company Lightmatter announced Passage L200, which the company said is the first 3D co-packaged optics (CPO) product...
From insideHPC
Ansys, Baker Hughes, and Oak Ridge Report Supercomputing Record on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced results from the largest commercial Fluent CFD simulation ever run on AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs....
From insideHPC
DARPA Tabs Cerebras and Ranovus for Military and Commercial Platform
AI compute company Cerebras Systems said it has been awarded a new contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a system combining...
From insideHPC
MLCommons Releases MLPerf Inference v5.0 Benchmark Results
Today, MLCommons announced new results for its MLPerf Inference v5.0 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking. TheMLCommons...
From Schneier on Security
Rational Astrologies and Security
John Kelsey and I wrote a short paper for the Rossfest Festschrift: “Rational Astrologies and Security“: There is another non-security way that designers can spend...
From insideHPC
Lumen and Ciena Report 1.2 Tbps Wavelength Service from Denver to Dallas
Lumen Technologies and Ciena recently reported they have established a 1.2 terabit wavelength service trial across 3,050 kilometers (more than 1,800 miles) on Lumen's...
From insideHPC
Optical I/O: Ayar Labs Launches 8 Tbps UCIe Optical Chiplet for AI Scale-Up Architectures
Optical interconnect company Ayar Labs announced the TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet, which Ayar said is the first optical Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe)...
From Computational Complexity
PDQ Shor (?-2025)
PDQ Shor PDQ Shor, Peter Shor's smarter brother, passed away last week. PDQ was a Physicist/Computer Scientist/Mathematician/Astrologer/Psychic at the University...
From Schneier on Security
Cell Phone OPSEC for Border Crossings
I have heard stories of more aggressive interrogation of electronic devices at US border crossings. I know a lot about securing computers, but very little about...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Broadband, by carrier pigeon
There’s a joke, about a Victorian football newspaper reporter, who takes a homing pigeon with him to the match so that he can swiftly return the score to his editor...
From insideHPC
TSMC Holds 2nm Capacity Expansion Ceremony, Volume Production Slated for Second Half of Year
TSMC today held a 2 nanometer (2nm) capacity expansion ceremony at the construction site of Fab 22 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), bringing together...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
California Seeks Feedback on Draft Report Guiding Oversight of AI Frontier Models
On March 18, 2025, the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models released a draft report that could help shape how the state navigates the rapidly...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)