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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
When optimizing small functions, I often rely on a table lookup: I replace the actual computation with table of precomputed values. It is often surprisingly efficient...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | October 14, 2024 at 06:15 PM
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking at SOSS Fusion 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The event will be held on Octoberthis...B. Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 14, 2024 at 12:49 PM
In July 2024, the Computing Research Association Working Group on Socially Responsible Computing Subcommittee on Best Practices for Conference released a whitepaper...Petruce Jean-Charles From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | October 14, 2024 at 09:30 AM
Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware:
The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 14, 2024 at 07:06 AM
I came across (by accident) the link to all of the BEATCS complexity columns from 1987 to the 2016. See HERE. (If you know a link to a more recent webpage then...gasarch From Computational Complexity | October 13, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Fishermen in Tamil Nadu are reporting smaller catches of squid.
Blog moderation policy.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 11, 2024 at 05:04 PM
In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 11, 2024 at 03:00 PM
After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 11, 2024 at 07:08 AM
HOUSTON – October 10, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 for complex AI model training tasks, poweredHPE...staff From insideHPC | October 10, 2024 at 08:58 PM
San Francisco, Oct. 10, 2024 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) expanded it generative AI (GenAI) solutions portfolio with Dell AI Factory additions tailored forDell...staff From insideHPC | October 10, 2024 at 08:12 PM
HOUSTON – Oct. 10, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced what the company said is the industry’s first 100 percent fanless direct liquid...staff From insideHPC | October 10, 2024 at 07:54 PM
Today in San Francisco AMD announced updated versions of its chips portfolio and moved to position itself as an across-the-board provider of data center technology...staff From insideHPC | October 10, 2024 at 02:00 PM
An Australian news agency is reporting that robot vacuum cleaners from the Chinese company Deebot are surreptitiously taking photos and recording audio, and sending...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 10, 2024 at 07:00 AM
Oct. 9, 2024 — HF Sinclair’s Lubricants & Specialties business annoiunced a line of single-phase immersion cooling fluids. INNOVATE is a series of dielectric thermal...staff From insideHPC | October 9, 2024 at 04:50 PM
DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN – October 9th, 2024 – Multiverse Computing, a quantum AI software company, today announced it will work with Airbus Defence and Space...staff From insideHPC | October 9, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Both the Physics and Chemistry Nobel prizes were awarded to computer scientists in 2024. Computer scientists are emerging as leading figures in the natural sciences...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | October 9, 2024 at 09:21 AM
In the fall, I write a jobs post predicting the upcoming CS faculty job market and giving suggestions and links. In the spring I used to crowdsource a list of where...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | October 9, 2024 at 08:51 AM
Two students have created a demo of a smart-glasses app that performs automatic facial recognition and then information lookups. Kind of obvious, but the sort of...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 9, 2024 at 07:05 AM
San Jose, October 8, 2024 – Supermicro announced a high-density infrastructure platform optimized for AI inferencing at the network edge. Supermicro’s system delivers...staff From insideHPC | October 8, 2024 at 04:25 PM
So… in 2024, the Physics Nobel prize was awarded to a Computer Scientist. Is Physics out of ideas? The Nobel Committee just gave a Physics award to a COMPUTER SCIENTIST...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | October 8, 2024 at 09:29 AM