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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
F5 Announces BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes with Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs
SEATTLE, OCTOBER 23, 2024 – F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced the availability of BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, an AI application delivery and security solution that...
From Schneier on Security
Are Automatic License Plate Scanners Constitutional?
An advocacy groups is filing a Fourth Amendment challenge against automatic license plate readers. “The City of Norfolk, Virginia, has installed a network of cameras...
From Computational Complexity
Family Feud vs Pointless
Every now and then I feel like doing a Gasarchian post. This is one of those weeks. I'm going to look at the mathematics behind the American game show Family Feud...
From insideHPC
Lenovo @ SC24: Smarter Creates Cooler HPC
SC24, the industry’s leading HPC technical conference, is taking place next month, and Lenovo will be there. HPC enthusiasts, influencers, and experts will gather...
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IDTechEx: Chiplet Market Growth Forecast to $411B by 2035
Oct. 23, 2024 — A new IDTechEx report, “Chiplet Technology 2025-2035: Technology, Opportunities, Applications,” highlights the transformative potential of chiplets...
From insideHPC
Nord Quantique Announces Partnerships for Quantum Semiconductor Supply Chain
SHERBROOKE, Canada (October 23, 2024) – Nord Quantique, a quantum error correction company, today announces two partnerships to secure its long-term chip fabrication...
From insideHPC
University of Houston Researchers Awarded Superconductivity Project Funding
HOUSTON, Oct. 22 – Researchers at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston have received second-year funding from Intellectual Ventures...
From insideHPC
Optical I/O: Celestial AI Acquires Rockley Photonics Portfolio
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – October 23, 2024 – Photonic fabric company Celestial AI today announced the acquisition of silicon photonics intellectual property from Rockley...
From Schneier on Security
No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer
The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.” No, it’s not true. This debunking saved me the trouble of writing...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Rising Star Award 2024-25: Nominations open!
With the ACM-W Rising Star Award, ACM-W recognizes women whose early-career research has made a significant impact in the field of computing. The award is a tribute...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
A message from the ACM-W Global Co-Chair, Bushra Anjum
Being appointed as the Global Co-Chair of ACM-W is not only an honor but also carries a deep sense of responsibility. I have been a part of the academic and professional...
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IBM Introduces Granite 3.0 AI Models
ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2024 — Today, at IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the release of what it said is its most advanced family of AI models, Granite 3.0. The company...
From insideHPC
Nominations Open for 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
HAMBURG, Germany, October 21, 2024 – The ISC Conference announced that nominations are open for the 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award. The confeerene encourages...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20241021: Exascale Day Shift, Quantum in China, the Great Grace Hopper, Awards and Conferences
A happy peak foliage (for some) day to you! Here’s a quick (5:44) jaunt through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: a shift in Exascale Day focus, did...
From insideHPC
Oriole Networks Raises $22M for Photonics to Cut LLM Energy Use
London, 21st October: Oriole Networks – a company using light to train Large Language Models with low energy consumption – has raised an additional $22 millionOriole...
From Schneier on Security
AI and the SEC Whistleblower Program
Tax farming is the practice of licensing tax collection to private contractors. Used heavily in ancient Rome, it’s largely fallen out of practice because of the...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Claude Shannon: Inventing for the fun of it
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London. Claude Shannon, inventor of the rocket powered Frisbee, gasoline powered pogo stick, a calculator that worked using...
From Computational Complexity
Contrast an Episode of Columbo with the recent Nobel Prizes
I quote Lance's blog post (here) about Computing and the Nobelsa) On Wednesday October 9th half of the Chemistry Nobel was awarded to computer scientists Demis...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The logic of Queens
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Queens is a fairly simple kind of logic puzzle found for example on LinkedIn as a way to draw you back to the site...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson