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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 Schneier on Security
CVE Program Almost Unfunded
Mitre’s CVE’s program—which provides common naming and other informational resources about cybersecurity vulnerabilities—was about to be cancelled, as the US Department...
From insideHPC
Compu Dynamics Launches HPC and AI Data Center Infrastructure Solutions
CHANTILLY, Va.– Compu Dynamics, a provider of data center construction and operations services, announced the launch of its AI and High-Performance Computing Services...
From insideHPC
Altair Partners with DATAsolution in South Korean for AI and HPC
TROY, Mich., April 14, 2025 — Altair announced a reseller partnership with DATAsolution, a company specializing in data analytics and infrastructure solutions.Altair...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hardware–Heat and Cold
Not all computer problems are caused by software. Sometimes the hardware is the problem. It’s not always easy to tell where the blame lies. One underappreciated...
From Schneier on Security
Slopsquatting
As AI coding assistants invent nonexistent software libraries to download and use, enterprising attackers create and upload libraries with those names—laced with...
From insideHPC
Liquid Cooling: CoolIT Systems Announces Row-Based Coolant Distribution Unit
Calgary, AB, April 15, 2025 — AI ad HPC liquid cooling company CoolIT Systems today introduced the CHx2000, which the company said is the highest-performance row...
From insideHPC
PROFILE: ZincFive – The Power of Good Chemistry
At the recent DCD NYC event, we had the opportunity to speak with Steve Jennings, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing at ZincFive, about the role of nickel...
From insideHPC
Intel Selling 51% of Altera FPGA Business for $8.7B
Intel Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51 percent of its Altera business to Silver Lake, a technology investing...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving an online talk on AI and trust for the Weizenbaum Institute on April 24, 2025 at 2...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA to Manufacture AI Supercomputers in U.S.
NVIDIA today it is working with manufacturing partners to design and build factories that will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers -- i.e., "AI factories" -- entirely...
From insideHPC
Survey: 83% Say Quantum Utility to Be Achieved within a Decade
Quantum industry professionals are optimistic that quantum utility will be achieved within the next decade, research from Economist Impact today reveals. According...
From insideHPC
BluSky AI Inc. Introduces Modular AI Data Center Solutions
Salt Lake City, Utah – April 10, 2025 – BluSky AI Inc. (OTCPink: BSAI) announced that it is becoming a modular data center company. BluSky AI said it focuses on...
From Computational Complexity
I want an applicaion of this application of Ramsey Theory to Semigroups
I recently read the following theoremDef: A semigroup is a pair \((G,*)\) where \(G\) is a set and * is a binary operation on \(G\) such that * is associative...
From Schneier on Security
China Sort of Admits to Being Behind Volt Typhoon
The Wall Street Journal has the story: Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
A Sea Hero Quest to understand our navigation skills
Video games can be a very successful way to do citizen science, getting ordinary people involved in research. Sea Hero Quest is an extremely successful example....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How can really smart people appear totally incompetent?
It is often puzzling to encounter organizations run by highly capable and ambitious people… appear dysfunctional. An example that I like are colleges that claim...
From insideHPC
Keysource and ADCC are now officially part of the Salute brand following completed acquisition
NEW YORK and LONDON – April 10, 2025 – Salute, a lifecycle data center services company, will acquire Keysource Group, a European provider of data center and critical...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid and Efficient Solar Tech
Researchers are trying to use squid color-changing biochemistry for solar tech. This appears to be new and related research to a 2019 squid post. As usual, you...
From Schneier on Security
AI Vulnerability Finding
Microsoft is reporting that its AI systems are able to find new vulnerabilities in source code: Microsoft discovered eleven vulnerabilities in GRUB2, including...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)