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How did the zebra get its stripes?
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...

Friday Squid Blogging: Stubby Squid
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...

Call for Papers: CCC Sponsored Blue Sky Track at ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day
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...

AMD Announces New GPUs, Development Platform, Rack Scale Architecture
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...

Paragon Spyware used to Spy on European Journalists
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...

Vultr Cloud to Provide AI Workloads with AMD Instinct MI355X GPU
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...

Beyond the Giants: Why Federal Funding is the “Secret Sauce” of Tech Innovation: A Conversation with Beth Mynatt
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...

Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government
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...

ISC 2026 Taps Parallel Computing Expert Rosa M. Badia as Program Chair
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...

Let us bury the linear model of innovation
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...

Imperial College London Chooses Intel Xeon 6 for £10M Lenovo Supercomputer
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...

Quantum: IonQ Acquires Oxford Ionics for Record $1B
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...

Multiverse Computing Raises $215M for LLM Compression
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 Science Fiction to Science Fact: Beth Mynatt Traces the Multi-Trillion Dollar Impact of Computing Innovation in the US
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...

@HPCPodcast: Digging into the New TOP500 List — How Continents, Countries, Companies and Architectures Fared
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...

Parallel Works Launches ACTIVATE AI with Integrated Kubernetes Support
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...

IBM Says on Course to Fault-Tolerant Quantum by 2029
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...

Navigating the Future of Computing Innovation: CCC Computing Futures Symposium Panel Recap
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...

TOP500: El Capitan Stays on Top, US Holds Top 3 Supercomputers, Europe Expands in Leadership HPC
From insideHPC

TOP500: El Capitan Stays on Top, US Holds Top 3 Supercomputers, Europe Expands in Leadership HPC

The new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, released this morning at the ISC 2025 conference in Germany, shows an expanding European presence...
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