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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Checking whether an ARM NEON register is zero
Your phone probably runs on 64-bit ARM processors. These processors are ubiquitous: they power the Nintendo Switch, they power cloud servers at both Amazon AWSContinue...
From Computational Complexity
Presidential Quiz!
I made up a quiz about the American Presidents here. It has 40 questions. In the modern electronic age you can probably look up most or even all of the answers...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Conjuring with logic: the remote control red-black mind meld
Magic tricks are just algorithms – they involve a magician following the steps of the trick precisely. But how can a magician be sure a trick will definitely work...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Opioid Alternatives from Squid Research
Is there nothing that squid research can’t solve? “If you’re working with an organism like squid that can edit genetic information way better than any other organism...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast Industry View: A Deep Dive into High-Density Data Center Cooling and Efficiency Strategies with DDC Solutions
In this “Industry View” episode of the @HPCpodcast, Chris Orlando of DDC Solutions discusses the rapidly changing landscape of high density data center cooling,...
From Schneier on Security
Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections
I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem. A few days ago I started getting phishing SMS messages with a new...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Releases 2024-2025 Quadrennial Paper Series, Including Many CCC Led Papers
We are pleased to announce that today CRA is releasing the 2024-2025 Quadrennial Paper Series. Every four years, the Computing Research Association, through its...
From Schneier on Security
FBI Deletes PlugX Malware from Thousands of Computers
According to a DOJ press release, the FBI was able to delete the Chinese-used PlugX malware from “approximately 4,258 U.S.-based computers and networks.” Details...
From insideHPC
At SC24: An Update from HPC-AI Skills Development Organization OpenACC
OpenACC helps the scientific R&D community develop their accelerated computing skills. Here are Dr. Sunita Chandrasekaran of the Univ. of Delaware and OpenACC User...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $625M Quantum Research Funding Opportunity
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC) announced that $625 million is available to support National Quantum Information Science Research Centers...
From Computational Complexity
"Our Days Are Numbered"
Slide in Lev Reyzin's JMM talk "Problems in AI and ML for Mathematicians" Reyzin is paraphrasing Telgarsky. Posted with permission. Last week I attended the Joint...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Medal of Science is Presented to Previous CCC Council Member Cynthia Dwork
Cynthia Dwork receives the National Medal of Science from the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Arati Prabhakar, Ph.D....
From Schneier on Security
Phishing False Alarm
A very security-conscious company was hit with a (presumed) massive state-actor phishing attack with gift cards, and everyone rallied to combat it—until it turned...
From insideHPC
Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) Meeting to be Held Jan. 16-17
The next meeting of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science...
From insideHPC
Infortrend Unveils Storage for HPC and Media & Entertainment
Taipei, Taiwan – January 14, 2025 – Enterprise storage company Infortrend Technology, Inc. (TWSE: 2495) introduced its high-density 4U 90-bay HDD solutions: unified...
From insideHPC
Alibaba, Apple and Synopsys Join Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium Board
Beaverton, Ore. – Jan. 14, 2025 – The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, developer of the UALink for AI clusters, has announced the expansion of its board of directors...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking on “AI: Trust & Power” at Capricon 45 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at 11:30 AM onBoskone...
From The Noisy Channel
Ground Truth: A Useful Fiction
A key concern about AI is that models “hallucinate” — technical jargon for saying that they make up things that look right. Keeping AI models grounded in truthimplicit...
From Schneier on Security
The First Password on the Internet
It was created in 1973 by Peter Kirstein: So from the beginning I put password protection on my gateway. This had been done in such a way that even if UK users...
From insideHPC