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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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Why the Romans were pants at maths
In case you've ever wondered how on earth the Romans multiplied numbers using Roman numerals...
From Computational Complexity
Young Sheldon gets two things spot-on/Am I more famous than.../Might YS become TS?
Young Sheldon is a TV show that I used to only watch on airplanes, but then i got into it and am now up to date. The wonders of technology! Note that catching...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: Metrics chasing engagement
(This is an excerpt from the draft of my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more.) Let’s say you are in charge of building a social media website...
From insideHPC
TSMC September Net Revenue Down 13% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Oct. 6, 2023 – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for September 2023:TSMC...
From insideHPC
Revolutionizing Bioscience Research: Creating an Atlas of the Human Body
Making healthcare and life science (HCLS) discoveries is time-consuming and requires considerable amounts of data. HPC enterprise infrastructure with AI and edge...
From Schneier on Security
Deepfake Election Interference in Slovokia
Well designed and well timed deepfake or two Slovokian politicians discussing how to rig the election: Šimečka and Denník N immediately denounced the audio as fake...
From insideHPC
Infratil and L&G Capital Increase Investment in Kao Data
London, October 5th, 2023 – Kao Data, developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has announced that infrastructure...
From Schneier on Security
Political Disinformation and AI
Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other...
From Putting People First
From nudge to sludge: a book, and now an academy and an audit
Sludge is friction through unnecessary red tape. Cass R. Sunstein wrote a book about it and the OECD is currently exploring the contribution that behavioural science...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA, Intel and Google Alums Form Lemurian Labs, Raise $9M for 20X AI Throughput Boost
Toronto – October 4, 2023 — Lemurian Labs today announced it has secured $9 million in seed funding to develop an accelerated computing platform tailored for AI...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Heidelberg Laureates Warn Against a False Sense of Security with Current Encryption Methods
During the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum last week, I had the opportunity to interview several of the laureates to hear their perspectives on current and future...
From insideHPC
Keshav Pingali to Receive ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
New York, October 4, 2023 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE Computer Society have named Keshav Pingali, the W.A.”Tex” Moncrief Chair of Grid...
From insideHPC
Dell Teams with NVIDIA on Generative AI
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced today it is partnering with NVIDIA and its Tensor Core GPUs -- including the coveted H100 -- to expand its generativeDell...
From Computational Complexity
The Lyadov Lesson
I've seen many brilliant students, those who flew though high school and undergrad with great grades and little effort. As PhD students, they often feel they still...
From insideHPC
New Open Source Event: AI.dev, Dec 12-13 in San Jose, Co-located with Cassandra Summit
Oct. 3, 2023 — The McEnery Convention Center in San Jose will be the site of a new conference, the AI.dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit, Tuesday and Wednesday,...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Gas Pumps via Bluetooth
Turns out pumps at gas stations are controlled via Bluetooth, and that the connections are insecure. No details in the article, but it seems that it’s easy to take...
From Schneier on Security
NSA AI Security Center
The NSA is starting a new artificial intelligence security center: The AI security center’s establishment follows an NSA study that identified securing AI models...
From insideHPC
IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ISC Join on Access to ISC Research Papers
By Nages Sieslack, ISC Communications Team Oct. 2, 2023 — I had the opportunity to talk with Prof. Michela Taufer, the ISC 2024 Program Chair, to get an updateIEEE...
From insideHPC