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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
Microsoft and Security Incentives
Former senior White House cyber policy director A. J. Grotto talks about the economic incentives for companies to improve their security—in particular, Microsoft...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Designing for autistic people
by Daniel Gill and Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What should you be thinking about when designing for a specific group with specific needs, suchContinue...
From Schneier on Security
Using Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware
Interesting social-engineering attack vector: McAfee released a report on a new LUA malware loader distributed through what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Can you trust a smile?
You're probably pretty good at spotting a fake smile, but how might we teach robots to do the same...
From Computational Complexity
Intelligent Comments on Bill's G.H. Hardy/Avi W post that we did not post.
I posted (see here) about Avi Wigderson being a counterexample to two of G.H. Hardy's opinions:1) Hardy thought Math was a young man's game. I got some good comments...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How do you recognize an expert?
Go back to the roots: experience. An expert is someone who has repeatedly solved the concrete problem you are encountering. If your toilet leaks, an experienced...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How quickly can you break a long string into lines?
Suppose that you receive a long string and you need to break it down into lines. Consider the simplified problems where you need to break the string into segments...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Trackers
A new bioadhesive makes it easier to attach trackers to squid. Note: the article does not discuss squid privacy rights. As usual, you can also use this squid post...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Women in Math Research
Peter Gerdes is a mathematician working in computability theory a.k.a. recursion theory, a branch of mathematical logic studying what computers (aka Turing machines)...
From insideHPC
SK hynix Partners with TSMC on HBM
Seoul, April 19, 2024 – Memory company SK hynix Inc. announced today a memorandum of understanding with TSMC to produce next-generation HBM and enhance logic and...
From insideHPC
CONTACT Software Presents AAS Applications at Hannover Messe 2024
April 19, 2024 — CONTACT Software is pushing the use of the Asset Administration Shell with its Elements platform. In Hannover, the company and its partners will...
From insideHPC
Lenovo and NVIDIA Partner on New Hybrid AI Solutions
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Lenovo unveiled the expansion of its ThinkSystem AI portfolio designed for the most demanding AI, data analytics and HPC workloads, featuring...
From insideHPC
Panasas in Manufacturing and Fulfillment Partnership with Avnet
SAN JOSE, April 18, 2024 — Data solutions company Panasas and Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT) today announced an agreement enabling Panasas to use Avnet Integrated, the systems...
From insideHPC
Quantum: D-Wave Introduces Anneal Feature
PALO ALTO, Calif – April 18, 2024 — Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today launched the fast-anneal feature, available on all of D-Wave...
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $16M for Traineeships in Accelerator Science & Engineering
April 18, 2024 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for four projects providing classroom training and research opportunities...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Quantum Provers
For our next favorite theorem, we look at the surprising power of provers who share entangled bits. If you can prove something to an arbitrarily computable verifier...
From Schneier on Security
Other Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects
After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique: The OpenJS Foundation Cross...
From insideHPC
Eviden Delivers 104 Pflops Nvidia-Powered EXA1-HE Supercomputer for CEA
Paris – April 17, 2024 – CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and Eviden, the Atos advanced computing business unit, today announce...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Opportunity to Respond to U.S. Air Force RFI on Countering Bias in AI/ML Datasets
Earlier this month The U.S. Air Force Chief Scientist’s inter-agency working group sent out a request for information (RFI) on unintended Artificial Intelligence...
From insideHPC