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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 insideHPC
DCS Corporation Names Brian Wood Vice President of Robotic Systems Division
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 7, 2024 — DCS Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Wood to vice president and division manager of the Robotic Systems...
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Jérôme Denigot Named EVP, Sensing & Monitoring, at CGG
CGG announced today the appointment of Jérôme Denigot as Executive Vice President, Sensing & Monitoring, effective February 26, 2024. In this new position, he will...
From Schneier on Security
How Public AI Can Strengthen Democracy
With the world’s focus turning to misinformation, manipulation, and outright propaganda ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we know that democracy has...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Sensitivity
Our next favorite theorem gave a relatively simple proof of the sensitivity conjecture, a long-standing problem of Boolean functions.Induced subgraphs of hypercubes...
From insideHPC
Argonne: ATPESC Training Application Deadline Extended to March 10
The application deadline for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) program has been extended to Sunday, March 10. This year marks the...
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Tenstorrent Founder and Engineers Say Taalas AI Chip Outperforms a Small GPU Data Center
TORONTO, March 5, 2024 — AI chip startup Taalas Inc., has announced it has exited stealth mode and raised $50 million over two rounds of funding led by Pierre Lamond...
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AI Startup Partners with Princeton on DARPA In-Memory AI Chip Project
An AI startup co-founded by a Princeton University professor has won an $18.6 million DOD grant to develop an in-memory chip built to deliver faster, more efficient...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance through Push Notifications
The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies...
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Exascale: E4S Software Deployments Boost Iindustry Acceptance of Accelerators
Last November at SC23, industry leaders reflected on successful deployments of the Exascale Computing Project’s Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S). They...
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LiquidStack Opens Manufacturing Facility and Global HQ in Texas
CARROLLTON, TX–March 5, 2024– Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced its new U.S. manufacturing site and headquarters in Carrollton, Texas...
From Schneier on Security
The Insecurity of Video Doorbells
Consumer Reports has analyzed a bunch of popular Internet-connected video doorbells. Their security is terrible. First, these doorbells expose your home IP address...
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AMD Hires Former Oak Ridge Director Thomas Zacharia
AMD today announced that Thomas Zacharia, former director of Oak Ridge National Laborary, has joined AMD as senior vice president of strategic technology partnerships...
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Women in HPC Launches Call for Submissions for 2nd Annual ISC Solution Forum Takeover
Now in its second year, Women in HPC will partner with ISC 2024 to present a diverse and inclusive event on the exhibition floor coinciding with the May 13th Exhibitor...
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Groq Acquires Definitive Intelligence to Launch GroqCloud
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 1, 2024 — AI technology company Groq has acquired Definitive Intelligence to launch GroqCloud, “a new developer playground with fully...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Research Visioning for Positive Impact of Automated Systems
As automated systems become increasingly integrated into society, so do the number of people they impact. This means creators of these systems need to exercise...
From Schneier on Security
LLM Prompt Injection Worm
Researchers have demonstrated a worm that spreads through prompt injection. Details: In one instance, the researchers, acting as attackers, wrote an email including...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The Social Machine of Maths
by Ursula Martin, University of Oxfordand Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London In school we learn about the maths that others have invented: results that...
From Computational Complexity
The letter to recommend John Nash was ``The Best Recomendation Letter Ever''- I do not think so.
There is an article about the letter Richard Duffin wrote for John Nash that helped John Nash get into Princeton: here. The title of the article is The Best Recommendation...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Extinct Species of Vampire Squid Discovered
Paleontologists have discovered a 183-million-year-old species of vampire squid. Prior research suggests that the vampyromorph lived in the shallows off an island...
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