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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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
How did the zebra get its stripes?
There are many myths and stories about how different animals gained their distinctive patterns. In 1901, Rudyard Kipling wrote a “Just So Story” about how the leopard...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Stubby Squid
Video of the stubby squid (Rossia pacifica) from offshore Vancouver Island. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Papers: CCC Sponsored Blue Sky Track at ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day
CCC is pleased to announce we are sponsoring another Blue Sky Ideas track at the ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day conference on August 5 in Toronto, Canada, and submissions...
From insideHPC
AMD Announces New GPUs, Development Platform, Rack Scale Architecture
AMD issued a raft of news at their Advancing AI 2025 event this week, an update on the company’s response to NVIDIA’s 90-plus percent market share dominance inAMD...
From Schneier on Security
Paragon Spyware used to Spy on European Journalists
Paragon is a Israeli spyware company, increasingly in the news (now that NSO Group seems to be waning). “Graphite” is the name of their product. Citizen Lab caught...
From insideHPC
Vultr Cloud to Provide AI Workloads with AMD Instinct MI355X GPU
West Palm Beach, FL. – June 12, 2025 – Vultr, a cloud infrastructure company, today announced that it is among the first cloud providers to offer the new AMD Instinct...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Beyond the Giants: Why Federal Funding is the “Secret Sauce” of Tech Innovation: A Conversation with Beth Mynatt
In our previous post, “From Science Fiction to Science Fact: Beth Mynatt Traces the Multi-Trillion Dollar Impact of Computing Innovation in the U.S.”, we explored...
From Schneier on Security
Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government
This is news: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records...
From insideHPC
ISC 2026 Taps Parallel Computing Expert Rosa M. Badia as Program Chair
As the ISC 2025 main program comes to a close today, the conference organization announced that Rosa M. Badia, a prominent European scientist specializing in parallel...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Let us bury the linear model of innovation
There is an extremely naive model of science and innovation called the linear model: The model postulated that innovation starts with basic research, is followed...
From insideHPC
Imperial College London Chooses Intel Xeon 6 for £10M Lenovo Supercomputer
Intel announced plans this week for the new HX2 supercomputer at Imperial College London built on Lenovo servers and powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors with Performance...
From insideHPC
Quantum: IonQ Acquires Oxford Ionics for Record $1B
June 12, 2025: IonQ earlier this week it has agreed to acquire Oxford Ionics for US$1.075 billion, the largest deal in the quantum computing industry to date, according...
From insideHPC
Multiverse Computing Raises $215M for LLM Compression
San Sebastian, Spain – June 12, 2025: Multiverse Computing has developed CompactifAI, a compression technology capable of reducing the size of LLMs (Large Language...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
From Science Fiction to Science Fact: Beth Mynatt Traces the Multi-Trillion Dollar Impact of Computing Innovation in the US
Beth Mynatt, Dean of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, recently delivered a compelling keynote at the CCC Computing Futures...
From Computational Complexity
Defending Theory
In the June CACM, Micah Beck writes an opinion piece Accept the Consequences where he is quite skeptical of the role of theory in real-world software development...
From insideHPC
@HPCPodcast: Digging into the New TOP500 List — How Continents, Countries, Companies and Architectures Fared
The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released yesterday at the ISC conference in Hamburg with a new addition to the top 10 and with three...
From insideHPC
Parallel Works Launches ACTIVATE AI with Integrated Kubernetes Support
CHICAGO — Parallel Works, provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for hybrid multi-cloud computing resources, today announced the launch of ACTIVATE AI, an evolution...
From insideHPC
IBM Says on Course to Fault-Tolerant Quantum by 2029
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., June 10, 2025 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled what the company said is its path to build the first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Navigating the Future of Computing Innovation: CCC Computing Futures Symposium Panel Recap
CCC’s recent Computing Futures Symposium brought together leading minds in computer science for a dynamic panel discussion, expertly moderated by Mark Hill (University...
From insideHPC