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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 …
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IQM Selected for 2 Quantum Computers for Euro-Q-Exa Hybrid System at LRZ
Munich, 16th October 2024 – The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a purchase agreement with IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a maker of superconducting...
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Women in High Performance Computing and ISC Group Extend Partnership for 2025
Bicester, UK—Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) and ISC Group announced the continuation of their partnership in advance of ISC 2025, scheduled for June...
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Altair Announces Aerospace Collaboration with Motivo
TROY, Mich., October 15, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced a collaboration with Motivo, a product engineering firm focused on translating forward-thinkingAltair...
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Dell AI Factory Offers New Cooling, High Density Compute and AI Storage
Round Rock, TEXAS – October 15, 2024: Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) introduced integrated rack-scalable systems, server, storage and data management innovations...
From Schneier on Security
More Details on Israel Sabotaging Hezbollah Pagers and Walkie-Talkies
The Washington Post has a long and detailed story about the operation that’s well worth reading (alternate version here). The sales pitch came from a marketing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Table lookups are efficient
When optimizing small functions, I often rely on a table lookup: I replace the actual computation with table of precomputed values. It is often surprisingly efficient...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at SOSS Fusion 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The event will be held on Octoberthis...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Best Practices for Conference Submission and Policy Review Whitepaper Teaser
In July 2024, the Computing Research Association Working Group on Socially Responsible Computing Subcommittee on Best Practices for Conference released a whitepaper...
From Schneier on Security
Perfectl Malware
Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations...
From Computational Complexity
A Trip Down Memory Lane: Desc comp, Constant Round Sorting, Division Breakthrough, Derandomization.
I came across (by accident) the link to all of the BEATCS complexity columns from 1987 to the 2016. See HERE. (If you know a link to a more recent webpage then...
From Schneier on Security
Indian Fishermen Are Catching Less Squid
Fishermen in Tamil Nadu are reporting smaller catches of squid. Blog moderation policy.
From Schneier on Security
More on My AI and Democracy Book
In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are...
From Schneier on Security
IronNet Has Shut Down
After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet...
From insideHPC
HPE Launches ProLiant System Powered by AMD for AI
HOUSTON – October 10, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 for complex AI model training tasks, poweredHPE...
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Dell Technologies Adds AMD-Powered PowerEdge Servers
San Francisco, Oct. 10, 2024 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) expanded it generative AI (GenAI) solutions portfolio with Dell AI Factory additions tailored forDell...
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HPE Announces Fanless Direct Liquid Cooling Systems Architecture
HOUSTON – Oct. 10, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced what the company said is the industry’s first 100 percent fanless direct liquid...
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AMD Launches CPU, GPU and DPU Chips Aimed at Big AI
Today in San Francisco AMD announced updated versions of its chips portfolio and moved to position itself as an across-the-board provider of data center technology...
From Schneier on Security
Deebot Robot Vacuums Are Using Photos and Audio to Train Their AI
An Australian news agency is reporting that robot vacuum cleaners from the Chinese company Deebot are surreptitiously taking photos and recording audio, and sending...
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HF Sinclair Launches Immersion Cooling Fluids
Oct. 9, 2024 — HF Sinclair’s Lubricants & Specialties business annoiunced a line of single-phase immersion cooling fluids. INNOVATE is a series of dielectric thermal...
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