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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Google's AI Red Team: the Ethical Hackers Making AI Safer
Interesting piece.Google's AI Red Team: the ethical hackers making AI saferJuly 19, 2023, 3 min readToday, we're publishing information on Google’s AI Red Team...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Zaqistan Flag
The fictional nation of Zaqistan (in Utah) has a squid on its flag. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
From insideHPC
Dell: How HPC Serves a Vital Role in National Health & Wellness, Public Safety, Border and Commerce Security
When HPC and national security appear in the same sentence, thoughts typically turn towards military, defense and homeland security. While that’s a natural association...
From insideHPC
TSMC Open R&D Center
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., July 28, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today held an opening ceremony for its global Research and Development Center in Hsinchu,TSMC...
From Schneier on Security
Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs
Interesting research: “(Ab)using Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs“: Abstract: We demonstrate how images and sounds can be...
From insideHPC
Stephen Streiffer Named Director of Oak Ridge Lab
July 27, 2023 — UT-Battelle, LLC, has appointed Stephen K. Streiffer to be the next director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He currently serves as interim...
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $11.7M for Research on Quantum Computing
July 27, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $11.7 million in funding for six collaborative projects intended to improve understanding of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NSF Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PIPP) Phase II Centers Program Launched
“Will Support Fundamental R&D That Transforms Ability to Forecast Pandemic-scale Events, Detect Outbreaks Early, and Respond Efficiently.” The COVID-19 pandemic...
From insideHPC
ExaWorks: Tested Component for HPC Workflows
ExaWorks is an Exascale Computing Project (ECP)–funded project that provides access to hardened and tested workflow components through a software development kit...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Decoding base16 sequences quickly
We sometimes represent binary data using the hexadecimal notation. We use a base-16 representation where the first 10 digits are 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and where...
From insideHPC
Hitachi Vantara Announces Integrated Solution with Microsoft Azure that Transforms Hybrid Cloud Management
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 25, 2023 – Hitachi Vantara, an ifrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced...
From Schneier on Security
Fooling an AI Article Writer
World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, “Glorbo,” on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice an AI bot to write an article about it.worked...
From insideHPC
Micron Sampling 8-high 24GB HBM3 Gen2 with Bandwidth Over 1.2TB/s
BOISE, Idaho, July 26, 2023 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today announced it has begun sampling what the company said is the industry’s first 8-high 24GB...
From insideHPC
SolidRun Launches Bedrock R7000, Fanless Edge-AI IPC with AMD Ryzen 7840HS and 3 Hailo-8 AI Accelerators
Acre, Israel, 26 July 2023 – SolidRun has announced the world’s first rugged system design that combines 8-core AMD Ryzen 7040 series processors with multiple Hailo...
From Computational Complexity
Paper Writing Before Overleaf
A twitter question from a young researcher. Wait, how do paper writing collaborations work with LaTeX that doesn’t use overleaf? You need more than a .Tex file...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $33M to Advance Energy Research
July 26, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $33 million to support 14 clean-energy research projects as part of a program to ensure theDOE...
From insideHPC
Exxact Corporation Offers Liquid Cooled HPC and AI Development Platform
Fremont, CA, July 26, 2023 — Exxact Corporation, a provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and data center solutions, is nowExxact...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) Webinar – August 4th, 1-2:30pm ET
On August 4th from 1-2:30pm ET, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will hold a webinar answering questions about the NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory...
From Schneier on Security
Backdoor in TETRA Police Radios
Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around the world. The European...
From insideHPC