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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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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Unveils IBM Quantum System One
TROY, NY, April 5, 2024 — Today, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM unveiled the first IBM quantum computer on a university campus. Building on RPI’s...
From Schneier on Security
Maybe the Phone System Surveillance Vulnerabilities Will Be Fixed
It seems that the FCC might be fixing the vulnerabilities in SS7 and the Diameter protocol: On March 27 the commission asked telecommunications providers to weigh...
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Quantinuum and Microsoft Report Advance in Fault Tolerant Quantum
BROOMFIELD, CO, and LONDON, April 3, 2024 – Quantinuum and Microsoft report they have achieved a breakthrough in making fault tolerant quantum computing a reality...
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Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Partner on Drug Development
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA and TEL AVIV, ISRAEL | April 04, 2024 — Quantum computing software company Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Corp. today announced the launchClassiq...
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RAVEL Announces Orchestrate GenAI Software and Support for AMD GPU Accelerators
Seattle – April 4, 2024 – RAVEL Inc (formerly StratusCore) today announced the release of RAVEL Orchestrate GenAI, built to provide IT and DevOps administrators...
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Former Microsoft Data Center Executive Joins Iceotope as Senior Advisor
London, 04 April, 2024: Liquid cooling technology company Iceotope Technologies announced that Christian Belady has been named senior advisor to the company. Iceotope...
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SiMa.ai Raises $70M for Generative Edge AI Platform
SAN JOSE, Calif.– SiMa.ai, the software-centric, embedded edge machine learning system-on-chip company, today announced it has raised an additional $70M of funding...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsored AI/OR III workshop: Exploiting the Synergies of the AI and OR Communities
An interdisciplinary group of 50 researchers attended the third Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research (AI/OR) workshop in late March in Washington, DC. Presentations...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App
The ProtonMail people are accusing Microsoft’s new Outlook for Windows app of conducting extensive surveillance on its users. It shares data with advertisers, a...
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CCC Council Members featured in AAAS article
The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual meeting brought together a community of leading scientists, educators, policymakers and...
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SK hynix to Invest $3.9B in Indiana HBM Fab and R&D with Purdue
Memory chip company SK hynix announced it will invest $3.87 billion in West Lafayette, Indiana to build an advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility for AI...
From Computational Complexity
Answer to Question. MetaQuestion remains unsolved
In a prior post I asked the following question:find x,y,z positive natural numbers such that the following is true:$$ \frac{x}{y+z} + \frac{y}{x+z} + \frac{z}{x...
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Hailo Closes $120M Funding Round and Debuts Hailo-10 Chip for Edge AI
TEL AVIV, Israel, April 2, 2024 — Edge AI chip maker Hailo announced it has extended its series C fundraising round with an additional investment of $120 million...
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Reports: TSMC Advanced Chip Fab Back on Schedule in Arizona; Dutch Government Announces Support for ASML
A news report from a Chinese news outlet states that chip producer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) may have overcome earlier problems at its Ariona...
From Schneier on Security
xz Utils Backdoor
The cybersecurity world got really lucky last week. An intentionally placed backdoor in xz Utils, an open-source compression utility, was pretty much accidentally...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC NTIA RFI Response
Last week, the CCC responded to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Request for Information on Dual Use Foundation Artificial Intelligence...
From Schneier on Security
Declassified NSA Newsletters
Through a 2010 FOIA request (yes, it took that long), we have copies of the NSA’s KRYPTOS Society Newsletter, “Tales of the Krypt,” from 1994 to 2003. There are...
From The Noisy Channel
Analyzing the AI Search Opportunity
In the past several years, AI has disrupted every part of the technology industry. Search applications are no exception: it is not a question of whether to useinverted...
From Computational Complexity
A Math Question and a Meta Question
1) Question: find x,y,z natural numbers such that the following is true:$$ \frac{x}{y+z} + \frac{y}{x+z} + \frac{z}{x+y} = 4. $$I was first presented the problem...
From Schneier on Security