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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
FOCS 2024
Foundations of Computer Science 2024 is coming this fall: October 27-30, 2024 at Wolf Point Plaza, Chicago. A Bit of History The cover of the FOCS proceedings is...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper
The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far)...
From insideHPC
HPE-Nvidia 6 AI Exaflops Supercomputer to Be Installed at AIST Research Organization in Japan
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Is Alerting iPhone Users of Spyware Attacks
Not a lot of details: Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Accessible Technology in the Voting Booth
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Benchmarking ARM processors: Graviton 4, Graviton 3 and Apple M2
The world of commodity processor is roughly divided in two: x64 chips for servers and PCs, and ARM processors for mobile devices. However, ARM chips increasingly...
From insideHPC
July 22 Deadline for ASCR Call for Papers: Workshop on Neuromorphic Computing for Science
July 10, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program has announced a Monday July 22 deadline (11:59 pm ET) for...
From insideHPC
Exascale: SUPERLU/STRUMPACK Solvers Get Frontier Upgrade
“Before (the Exascale Computing Project), both packages had very little support for GPUs. We could get some benefit from running on a single GPU, but without updating...
From insideHPC
AMD in $665M Acquisition of Silo AI
AMD announced it will acquire Helsinki-based Silo AI, which AMD said is the largest private AI lab in Europe, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately...
From Schneier on Security
RADIUS Vulnerability
New attack against the RADIUS authentication protocol: The Blast-RADIUS attack allows a man-in-the-middle attacker between the RADIUS client and server to forge...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Extracting Ramsey Graphs
June EditionTwo decades ago, I named the recently departed Luca Trevisan's paper connecting extractors to psuedorandom generators as one of my favorite theorems...
From insideHPC
Qumulo Names Former Arista Executive Douglas Gourlay CEO
SEATTLE – Jul. 9, 2024 – Data management company Qumulo today announced the appointment of Douglas Gourlay as president and chief executive officer. Gourlay will...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast Industry View: Penguin Solutions on Getting AI Infrastructure Right
The @HPCpodcast's “Industry View” feature takes on major issues in advanced technologies through the lens of industry leaders. In this episode, we dig into the@HPCpodcast...
From insideHPC
NetBrain Launches NetBrain User Conference to Support Increasing Demand for Network Automation
Boston, July 9, 2024 – NetBrain Technologies, Inc., a provider of no-code network automation and dynamic mapping solutions for hybrid cloud-connected networks,NetBrain...
From insideHPC
Altair Named Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem Partner
SEOUL, July 9, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational intelligence, has been selected as an electronic design automation (EDA) partner for...
From insideHPC
HPC-AI User Forum to Be Held September 4-5 at Argonne
ST PAUL, Minn., July 9, 2024— The HPC User Forum has opened registration for its upcoming meeting, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 4-5, at Argonne National Laboratory...
From Yoshua Bengio
Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously
About a year ago, a few months after I publicly took a stand with many other peers to warn the public of the dangers related… L’article Reasoning through arguments...
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Launches Three Coolant Distribution Units
Calgary, AB, July 9, 2024 – CoolIT Systems (CoolIT) announces the launch of three new models in its lineup of Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs): AHx240, AHx180CoolIT...
From insideHPC
Riverlane Announces 3-Year Quantum Error Correction Roadmap
July 9, 2024 — Quantum error correction technology company Riverlane has released a three-year roadmap for its quantum error correction stack, Deltaflow, starting...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)