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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: Council Member Michela Taufer Gives Sneak Peek on Upcoming SuperComputing Panel Discussion
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) spoke with council member Michela Taufer who will be moderating a panel discussion at the 2024 Supercomputing Conference...
From Schneier on Security
Criminals Exploiting FBI Emergency Data Requests
I’ve been writing about the problem with lawful-access backdoors in encryption for decades now: that as soon as you create a mechanism for law enforcement to bypass...
From insideHPC
Transformative Potential of Confidential Computing to be Explored in SC24 Birds of a Feather Session
Atlanta – Nov. 12, 2024 – Sylabs, in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories, will host a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at SC24 titled Integrating Confidential...
From insideHPC
Supermicro and Qubrid AI Collaborate on Nvidia GPU-based AI Server Appliances
Powered by Supermicro’s GPU sever hardware, NVIDIA GPUs and Qubrid AI’s AI Controller Software, this on-prem solution empowers businesses to develop, fine-tune,...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20241111: TSMC 2nm Restrictions, AMD-Fujitsu Team on Arm, AMD Passes Intel, US Data Center Green Energy Uptake
With a salute to our service men and women on this Veteran’s Day, here’s a rapid (6:07) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: TSMC grows revenue...
From insideHPC
Univ. of Sydney Quantum Researchers Report Advance on Error Correction
Nov. 10, 2024 — The University of Sydney has announced that quantum researchers Dominic Williamson and Nouédyn Baspin have developed what the university calledUniv...
From insideHPC
Cloudian Announces Support for NVIDIA GPUDirect Acceleration for Object Storage
SAN MATEO, CA – Nov 18, 2024 – Cloudian, the global leader in secure S3-compatible AI data lake platforms, today announced its integration with NVIDIA Magnum IO...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Considerations When Using Data from Human Subjects
This blog highlights key points on considerations when using data from human subjects in a recent CRA whitepaper that outlined challenges and examples that computing...
From Computational Complexity
Steven Rudich (1961-2024)
Complexity theorist Steven Rudich passed away on October 29 at the age of 63. His works on Natural Proofs and Program Obfuscation were both highly influential.great...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Why is your Internet so slow?
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London. This article was originally published on the CS4FN website. It was also published in our 2023 Advent Calendar.Continue...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Global Entrepreneurship Week (18-24 Nov) – see our new Tech Entrepreneurship resource
It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week next week (18th to 24th November) and to celebrate we’ve put together a resource page (portal) on Tech Entrepreneurs to inspire...
From insideHPC
TSMC Reports October Monthly Revenue Jump of 29.2% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Nov. 8, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for October 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for October...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-A-Rama in Des Moines
Squid-A-Rama will be in Des Moines at the end of the month. Visitors will be able to dissect squid, explore fascinating facts about the species, and witness a live...
From Schneier on Security
AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI”
The Open Source Initiative has published (news article here) its definition of “open source AI,” and it’s terrible. It allows for secret training data and mechanisms...
From insideHPC
Codee and Do IT Now Announce Automated Code Review Partnership for HPC
Barcelona, Thursday 7th November 2024 – Codee, provider of software developer tools for automated code review and testing for Fortran/C/C++ code, announced a partnership...
From insideHPC
MIPS Releases AI-Enabled RISC-V Automotive CPU for ADAS and Autonomous Vehicles
SAN JOSE – November 7, 2024 – MIPS, a developer of IP compute cores, announced today the general availability(GA) launch of the MIPS P8700 Series RISC-V Processor...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Wanna Be A Rock Star?
By Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Updated from the archive of 2007 Want to make sure your life turns out the way you want? Want to trade this life...
From insideHPC
ATTO Technology Introduces HPC and AI Connectivity at SC24
AMHERST, NY, November 5, 2024 — ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader in network and storage connectivity solutions, announces it will show its high-performance...
From Schneier on Security
Prompt Injection Defenses Against LLM Cyberattacks
Interesting research: “Hacking Back the AI-Hacker: Prompt Injection as a Defense Against LLM-driven Cyberattacks“: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly...
From Schneier on Security