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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
HPC News Bytes 20230814: Linux Wars, China and Chips, Intel AVX, Gordon Bell Prize Finalists
A happy August Monday morning to you. It was an interesting week for supercomputing news, and Shahin and Doug share the highlights of recent developments: Linux...
From Yoshua Bengio
Personal and Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI Catastrophic Risks
On May 31st, 2023, a BBC web page headlined: “AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio feels ‘lost’ over life’s work.” However, this is a statement I never… L’article Personal...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Transcoding UTF-8 strings to Latin 1 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512
Most strings online are Unicode strings in the UTF-8 format. Other systems (e.g., Java, Microsoft) might prefer UTF-16. However, Latin 1 is still a common encoding...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: NIWA Annual Squid Survey
Results from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited annual squid survey: This year, the team unearthed spectacular large hooked squids...
From insideHPC
NOAA Supercomputing Capacity Expanded for Advanced National Weather Forecasting
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The computing capacity of twin supercomputers used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been expanded by 20 percent...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do You Remember Struggling to Learn?
Dave Largent, a CS professor at Ball State University, had an important reminder on his blog -Dave's not here, or is he?: Teachers need to struggle to learn (davidlargent...
From Schneier on Security
The Inability to Simultaneously Verify Sentience, Location, and Identity
Really interesting “systematization of knowledge” paper: “SoK: The Ghost Trilemma” Abstract: Trolls, bots, and sybils distort online discourse and compromise the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Copyling with Microdirectives
Complying with Microdirectives AI and Microdirectives Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws. All day and every day, you constantly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Copying with Microdirectives
Complying with MicrodirectivesRepresentatives of OpenAI declined to comment on companies privacy concerns.Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $11M Awarded for Extreme-Scale Science
Aug. 10, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $11 million in funding for 15 projects in exploratory research for extreme-scale science intended...
From insideHPC
TSMC: July Revenue Down 4.9% YoY, Up 13.6% MoM
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Aug. 10, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for JulyTSMC...
From insideHPC
Red Hat Riposte: CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association
The ongoing Linux open source controversy took a turn today with the announcement by CIQ, Oracle and SUSE to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA)...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Reports Second Quarter Results
BURNABY, B.C. & PALO ALTO, Calif. – August 10, 2023 – Commercial quantum computing systems, software and services company D-Wave Quantum Inc., (NYSE: QBTS) today...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
TIP Quarterly Update – One year anniversary of the CHIPS and Science Act getting signed into law
NSF Assistant Director of TIP, Erwin Gianchandani, and NSF Deputy Assistant Director for TIP Gracie Narcho wrote a letter to the community marking the one year...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptographic Flaw in Libbitcoin Explorer Cryptocurrency Wallet
Cryptographic flaws still matter. Here’s a flaw in the random-number generator used to create private keys. The seed has only 32 bits of entropy. Seems like this...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Threads & Yarns – textiles and electronics
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London, from June 2011 At first sight nothing could be more different than textiles and electronics. Put opposites together...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Coding of domain names to wire format at gigabytes per second
When you enter in your browser the domain name lemire.me, it eventually gets encoded into a so-called wire format. The name lemire.me contains two labels, one of...
From Computational Complexity
The Acting Professor
When I taught Programming for Engineers at Northwestern in 2008, the textbook gave access to PowerPoint slides I could use to teach the class. Since C++ is notseries...
From insideHPC
LLNL: 9,000 Exascale Nodes for Power Grid Optimization
Ensuring the nation’s electrical power grid can function with limited disruptions in the event of a natural disaster, catastrophic weather or a manmade attack is...
From Schneier on Security