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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
Hacking Wireless Bicycle Shifters
This is yet another insecure Internet-of-things story, this one about wireless gear shifters for bicycles. These gear shifters are used in big-money professional...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240819: Adding AI-Centric Servers, Post Quantum Cryptography, Liberal Arts Profs Look at Exascale
Good August day to you! Here's a quick (5:43) review of recent goings on in the world of HPC-AI, including: AI-centric servers from non-traditional HPC suppliers...
From insideHPC
Upping the AI Ante: AMD to Acquire Data Center Server Company ZT Systems for $5B
In a vertical integration move, AMD today announced an agreement to acquire data center and hyperscale systems supplier ZT Systems for nearly $5 billion. The acquisition...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Michela Taufer Speaks at 53rd International Conference on Parallel Processing
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to announce that council member Michela Taufer was a keynote speaker at the 53 International Conference on Parallel...
From insideHPC
Fabric Cryptography Raises $33M for Cryptography Chip
August 19, 2024: Silicon Valley hardware startup Fabric Cryptography announced a $33 million Series A funding round to build computing chips, software and cryptographic...
From Schneier on Security
The State of Ransomware
Palo Alto Networks published its semi-annual report on ransomware. From the Executive Summary: Unit 42 monitors ransomware and extortion leak sites closely to...
From Computational Complexity
Request open problems in honor of Luca Trevisan
Request for Open Problems In Memory of Luca TrevisanLuca Trevisan passed away on June 19, 2024 at the age of 52, of cancer.I am putting together an open problems...
From insideHPC
2 English Professors Win NSF Grant to Open Aurora Exascale Black Box
English professors at Clemson University and Portland State University have been awarded a six-figure research grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Faster random integer generation with batching
We often generate random integers. Quite often these numbers must be within an interval: e.g., an integer between 0 and 100. One application is a random shuffle...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blog: The Market for Squid Oil Is Growing
How did I not know before now that there was a market for squid oil? The squid oil market has experienced robust growth in recent years, expanding from $4.56 billion...
From insideHPC
SandboxAQ Adds Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Dr. Lawrence H. Summers to Board
Aug. 16, 2024 — AI and quantum technology company SandboxAQ announced that Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, has joined SandboxAQ’s...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: Using Minecraft to Teach AI Social Intelligence
In this installment of CCC Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an interesting relationship between Minecraft and Arizona State University (ASU) as a part of the...
From Schneier on Security
New Windows IPv6 Zero-Click Vulnerability
The press is reporting a critical Windows vulnerability affecting IPv6. As Microsoft explained in its Tuesday advisory, unauthenticated attackers can exploit the...
From insideHPC
Dec. 15 Nomination Deadline for ACM Award to Recognize Researchers from Historically Underrepresented Communities
New York, Aug. 13, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that it has initiated the Luiz André Barroso Award to recognize researchers...![[On Demand] Celebrating Technology Leaders: Generative AI in Enterprise Software](/system/assets/0001/9523/041715_ACM_ACMWlogo.small_square.jpg?1476779479&1429278281)
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
[On Demand] Celebrating Technology Leaders: Generative AI in Enterprise Software
On August 7th, 2024, Bushra Anjum hosted the 15th episode of “ACM-W Celebrating Technology Leaders” with our esteemed panel of experts to discuss the current trends...
From insideHPC
Quantum Circuits Closes $60M Series B Investment
August 15, 2024 – New Haven, CT – Quantum Circuits announced it has secured a final Series B investment round of more than $60 million. The company said the funds...
From Schneier on Security
NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms
From the Federal Register: After three rounds of evaluation and analysis, NIST selected four algorithms it will standardize as a result of the PQC Standardization...
From The Noisy Channel
Facets, But Which Ones?
This post dives into a particular challenge of faceted search, exploring the challenge of selecting which facets a search application should present to searchers...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Now Recruiting: Website Editors
The ACM-W Communications Committee is seeking a volunteer to maintain the ACM-W website (women.acm.org). The successful candidate will work directly with the ACM...
From insideHPC