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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 Apophenia
The Screens are the Symptom.
I decided to re-read Fahrenheit 451 with my eldest this last week. I don’t think that I have read this classic Bradbury text since high school. What I had remembered...
From insideHPC
HPC User Forum 2023: How AI is Overturning the Legal Industry
“Lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers who don’t.” That was the coda of a presentation given at the recent HPC User Forum in Tucson by Arizona State University...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA-Powered CoreWeave and VAST Data Partner on Public Cloud for GenAI, HPC
Sept. 26, 2023 — VAST Data and CoreWeave today announced a partnership to build an NVIDIA GPU-powered computing cloud for generative AI, high performance computing...
From Schneier on Security
Signal Will Leave the UK Rather Than Add a Backdoor
Totally expected, but still good to hear: Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit...
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Integrator ParTec AG Raises €5M
Munich — Modular supercomputing company ParTec AG has announced that as a result of its years of work in the field of quantum computing, it is positioning itself...
From insideHPC
MIT: Qubit Architecture Achieves Progress on Quantum Error Correction
MIT researchers report they have demonstrated a novel superconducting qubit architecture that can perform operations between qubits with greater accuracy, addressing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Kick-off to the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Today marks the first official day of the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Heidelberg, Germany. The Computing Community Consortium has attended and covered...
From insideHPC
Exascale Early Adopter Series Webinar Sept. 27: Optimizing SYCL Workloads on Aurora and Sunspot
On Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 11 am Central Time, Varsha Madananth, an applications engineer at Intel, will lead an online webinar on optimizing SYCL workloads forExascale...
From Putting People First
Using psychology to bolster cybersecurity
In an article for Communications of the ACM, David Geer explains how the U.S. Defense Department uses cyberpsychology to get into the minds of attackers to better...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing integers quickly with AVX-512
If I give a programmer a string such as "9223372036854775808" and I ask them to convert it to an integer, they might do the following in C++: std::string s = .....
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species
An ancient squid: New research on fossils has revealed that a vampire-like ancient squid haunted Earth’s oceans 165 million years ago. The study, published in June...
From insideHPC
Large Language Models: The Power and the Mystery
Large language models fit the classic model of a red-hot technology in an early stage of commercial viability: there’s more talk about it than knowledge, and FOMO...
From insideHPC
PINQ² to Operate IBM Quantum System One in Quebec
Bromont, Quebec, September 22, 2023 – The Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation of Quebec (PINQ²), a non-profit organization (NPO) founded by the Ministry...
From insideHPC
Kao Data Appoints David Bloom Chairman
London, September 21st, 2023 – Kao Data, the specialist developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has appointed...
From insideHPC
Sandia Labs Researchers Win 6 R&D 100 Awards
Sandia researchers took home six R&D 100 Awards, one joint with Los Alamos National Laboratory, and one special award for 2023 in the annual international technical...
From Schneier on Security
New Revelations from the Snowden Documents
Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing major, but a few...
From insideHPC
Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe Develop Quantum ML Method for Disaster Routing
St. Gallen, Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, September 21, 2023 – Quantum computing company Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU), a center for...
From insideHPC
DOD Announces $238M CHIPS and Science Act Awards for Microelectronics Hubs
Washington, DC, Sept. 20, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Defense today announced the award of $238 million in CHIPS and Science Act funding for eight Microelectronics...
From Computational Complexity
We Must Be Doing Something Right
The Chicago Tribune ran an editorial Monday that started What’s the best four-year college in Illinois? Not the University of Chicago, Northwestern University or...
From insideHPC