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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
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Needle Technology
Interesting research: Using jet propulsion inspired by squid, researchers demonstrate a microjet system that delivers medications directly into tissues, matching...
From Schneier on Security
Race Condition Attacks against LLMs
These are two attacks against the system components surrounding LLMs: We propose that LLM Flowbreaking, following jailbreaking and prompt injection, joins as the...
From Schneier on Security
NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments
The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda)...
From insideHPC
AMD Releases ROCm Version 6.3
Nov. 26, 2024: AMD today announced the release of ROCm Version 6.3 open-source platform, introducing tools and optimizations for AI, ML and HPC workloads on AMD...
From insideHPC
Quantum: Alice & Bob Announce Logical Qubit Emulator
PARIS, 26th November 2024 – Alice & Bob, a fault-tolerant quantum computing company, today announced Felis 1.0, its toolbox with logical qubit emulator designed...
From insideHPC
Harbor Service, VAST Data Provide Storage Upgrade for NCSA Systems
Nov. 20, 2024: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and VAST Data are giving supercomputing system Delta and the newly launched DeltaAI a boost in...
From insideHPC
Webinar: ALCF Developer Session on HPC Workflows to Be Held Dec. 11
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar at 11 am Central Time on Wednesday, Dec. 11 covering remote workflows at ALCF. Registration is here...
From The Noisy Channel
Documents, Queries, and Categories
I have published a number of posts and presentations about the bag-of-documents model, which essentially represents query intent as a distribution in a document...
From insideHPC
Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute Selects IQM Spark Quantum Computer
Taipei, Taiwan, 25th November 2024 – The Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI) under the National Applied Research Laboratories today announces the procurement...
From Computational Complexity
We Will All Write Like AI
Will our writing all converge to a generic AI style? Let's take a quick detour into LaTeX. Back in the late '80s, before LaTeX was the standard, there was TeX—a...
From Schneier on Security
Security Analysis of the MERGE Voting Protocol
Interesting analysis: An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways. Abstract: The recently published “MERGE” protocol is designed to be used in...
From insideHPC
Jan. 5 Registration Deadline for ASC25 Student Supercomputer Challenge
ATLANTA, Nov. 22, 2024 –The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge 2025 (ASC25) kicked off its inaugural briefing session at SC24, unveiling a timeline for the upcoming...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
To be (CEO) or not to be (CEO)
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London, based on an interview between Hamit Soyel and Queen Mary Innovations Just because you start a start-up doesn’tContinue...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The Blue Planet?
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London How much should we change the world to make it easier for our machines to work? Plant scientists have spotted aContinue...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM Women at Computing Education Research conferences: ICER and UKICER
By Adriana Wilde, ACM-W Communication co-chair, and Arati Dixit, ACM-W Regional Activities, co-chair Earlier this year (12-15 August 2024), as representatives of...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Invisible Women in IT
By Ingrid Maria Christensen and Melissa Høegh Marcher The lack of IT specialists in Europe is a growing problem, with 63% of European hiring enterprises reporting...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Announcing the New ACM-W Professional Chapters Chair and Committee!
ACM-W is excited to announce the launch of the ACM-W Professional Chapters Committee! This new project team will promote the mission of ACM-W to support the creation...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Transcriptome Analysis of the Indian Squid
Lots of details that are beyond me. Blog moderation policy.
From insideHPC
IBM and Pasqal Expand Quantum-Centric Supercomputing Initiative
Yorktown Heights, New York, and Paris, Nov. 21, 2024 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Pasqal today announced an update to their intended collaboration to build new, integrated...
From Schneier on Security