Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2025
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Joint CRA Whitepaper Highlights Industry Engagement in Academic Research
Previously published on the CRA-Industry blog on April 22, 2025. The Computing Research Association (CRA) has released a new whitepaper, Industry Engagement in Academic Research — a joint effort of two of its programmatic committees…
From insideHPC
Oracle Cloud Deploys NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
Nvidia said Oracle has stood up its first wave of liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks in its data centers. NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now being deployed on NVIDIA DGX Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to develop .…
From Computational Complexity
P v NP Papers Galore
As someone who has literally written a book on the topic, I have had many people over the years send me their attempts at P v NP proofs. On average, I receive about one a month, but I've had seven in the last two weeks. And not…
From insideHPC
DDN and Nebius Cloud Collaborate on AI Infrastructure for Enterprise
CHATSWORTH, CA – April 30, 2025 – AI and data management company DDN has partnered with AI cloud provider Nebius for enterprise AI workloads. By integrating DDN Infinia and EXAScaler into its AI cloud, Nebius offers enterprises…
From Schneier on Security
WhatsApp Case Against NSO Group Progressing
Meta is suing NSO Group, basically claiming that the latter hacks WhatsApp and not just WhatsApp users. We have a procedural ruling:
Under the order, NSO Group is prohibited from presenting evidence about its customers’ identities…From insideHPC
Backblaze Launches B2 Overdrive for AI/ML and HPC Workloads
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Cloud storage company Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE) today announced Backblaze B2 Overdrive, a cloud storage solution delivering terabit-speed throughput starting at $15 per terabyte. Built for organizations…
From insideHPC
GigaIO Reports on Interconnect Technology Performance
Carlsbad, California, April 29, 2025 – Edge-to-core AI platform GigaIO has unveiled AI training, fine-tuning, and inference benchmarks that demonstrate the performance, cost and power efficiency of GigaIO’s AI fabric compared…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Film Futures: Brassed Off
Computer Scientists and digital artists are behind the fabulous special effects and computer generated imagery we see in today’s movies, but for a bit of fun, in this series, we look at how movie plots could change if they involved…
From insideHPC
How GenAI Is Changing Work at a National Lab
At science organizations like national laboratories, the use of generative AI has the potential to accelerate scientific discovery in critical areas. But with new tools come new questions: How can science organizations ....
The…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC@AAAS 2025 | Rethinking Social Technologies: Platforms, Protocols, and the Push for Decentralization
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) supported a session at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference titled Social Technologies: Why We Can’t Live With Them Or Without Them. The panel was moderated by Sarita Schoenebeck, Professor…
From insideHPC
Parallel Works Unveils ACTIVATE Security Platform, Achieves DoD IL5 Provisional Authorization
CHICAGO – April 29, 2025 – Parallel Works, provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for hybrid multi-cloud computing resources, today announced the launch of ACTIVATE High Security Platform, a hybrid, multi-cloud platform for national…
From Schneier on Security
Applying Security Engineering to Prompt Injection Security
This seems like an important advance in LLM security against prompt injection:
Google DeepMind has unveiled CaMeL (CApabilities for MachinE Learning), a new approach to stopping prompt-injection attacks that abandons the failed…From insideHPC
Quantum-Classical: Rigetti Wins Air Force Office of Scientific Research Award for Chip Fabrication Technology
BERKELEY, Calif., April 28, 2025 — Rigetti Computing, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGTI), a quantum-classical computing company, announced today that it was granted an Air Force Office of Scientific Research award to further develop its chip…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Film Futures: Tsotsi
Computer Scientists and digital artists are behind the fabulous special effects and computer generated imagery we see in today’s movies, but for a bit of fun, in this series, we look at how movie plots could change if they involved…
From Computational Complexity
A personal view of the NSF hot mess: My REU program
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From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Annie Easley: putting rockets into space
Annie Easley was a pioneer both as a computer programmer but also as a champion of women and minorities into computer science. She went from being a human computer doing calculations for the rocket scientists (in the days before…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Facts on Your Phone
Text “SQUID” to 1-833-SCI-TEXT for daily squid facts. The website has merch.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Looking for ACM-W Newsletter Editor!
ACM-W is currently recruiting for a part-time Newsletter Editor. The successful candidate will work directly with the ACM-W Communications Chair to edit and publish solicitations and content to our website/blog for later collation…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Congratulations to ACM Fellow Marsha Chechik!
Written by Taneea S Agrawaal Marsha Chechik, Professor, Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, has been named an ACM Fellow for her “foundational advances in formal reasoning for quality software development…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Rising Star Award Recipient: Dr Shin Hwei Tan
Written by Taneea S Agrawaal ACM-W would like to announce Dr. Shin Hwei Tan as this year’s recipient of the ACM-W Rising Star Award! The ACM-W Rising Star Award recognizes a woman whose early-career research has had a significant…
From insideHPC
GigaIO Announces GA of Portable AI Supercomputer
Carlsbad, California, April 25, 2025 – GigaIO, an edge-to-core AI platform, today announced the general availability of Gryf, which the company said is the world’s first suitcase-sized AI supercomputer. Co-designed by GigaIO
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From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Torchwood: in need of some backup
***SPOILER ALERT*** Disaster planning, that’s the Torchwood game. They are there to save the Earth whenever it needs saving from aliens (which is every week). Shame they blew it when it came to disaster planning for Torchwood…
From Schneier on Security
Cryptocurrency Thefts Get Physical
Long story of a $250 million cryptocurrency theft that, in a complicated chain events, resulted in a pretty brutal kidnapping.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Celebration at Air University, Multan Campus
Two Exciting Days of Innovation, Competition, and Mentorship By the AUMC team Excitement filled the air as students and professionals gathered at Air University Multan Campus for the much-anticipated ACM-W Celebration 2025.…
From The Noisy Channel
Navigating the Pareto Frontier
Traditional search applications retrieve relevant results, score them based on desirability, and present them in ranked order. This linear approach, while intuitive, often fails to capture the complexity of real searcher needs…
From Schneier on Security
New Linux Rootkit
The company has released a working rootkit called “Curing” that uses io_uring, a feature built into the Linux kernel, to stealthily perform malicious activities without being caught by many of the detection solutions…
From insideHPC
The AI Factory Heats Up: Liquid Cooling Options Explained
The compute power required by AI and HPC is skyrocketing and driving a global transition from 10-15 megawatt data centers to 50-100 megawatt and even gigawatt AI factories. With the next generation AI superchips operating at
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From insideHPC
Fujitsu and RIKEN Develop 256-Qubit Superconducting Quantum Computer
Kawasaki and Wako, Japan, April 22, 2025 — Fujitsu Limited and RIKEN announced the development of a 256-qubit superconducting quantum computer, established at the RIKEN RQC-FUJITSU Collaboration Center. This quantum computer
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From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Moon and Mind-Body Dualism
**spoiler alert** The least interesting thing about Duncan Jones is who his superstar father is. He stepped out of the shadow with a vengeance in directing one of the coolest films ever: Moon. It premiered at Sundance in 2009…
From insideHPC
Optimizing HPC workflows with automatically scaling clusters in Ansys Gateway powered by AWS
by Dnyanesh Digraskar and Trent Andrus on 22 APR 2025 in AWS ParallelCluster, High Performance Computing, Partner solutions Permalink Share This post was contributed by Dnyanesh Digraskar, Principal HPC Partner Solutions Architect…