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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 insideHPC
White House Announces $500B AI Data Center Infrastructure Build-Out
The Trump Administration ended its first full day of business with a major AI business announcement, that hundreds of billions of dollars – potentially trillions...
From insideHPC
Seagate Introduces Hard Drive Capacities up to 36TB
FREMONT, CA, January 21, 2025 – Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX), a maker of of mass capacity data storage, today announced shipments of Exos M hard...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC and CRA-I Respond to NTIA Request for Comment on Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data
Last week, CCC, in collaboration with CRA-Industry, submitted a Response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Department of...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
I wandered lonely as a mass of dejected vapour – try some AI poetry
by Jane Waite, Queen Mary University of London Ever used an online poem generator, perhaps to get started with an English assignment? They normally have a template...
From Schneier on Security
AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes
Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can...
From insideHPC
Hammerspace a Finalist in 3 Categories of theCUBE Technology Innovation Awards
SAN MATEO, Calif. — January 20, 2025 — Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, has been recognized as a finalist in three categories of theCUBE...
From Schneier on Security
Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order
President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity order. It has a bunch of provisions, most notably using the US governments procurement power to improve cybersecurity...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Checking whether an ARM NEON register is zero
Your phone probably runs on 64-bit ARM processors. These processors are ubiquitous: they power the Nintendo Switch, they power cloud servers at both Amazon AWSContinue...
From Computational Complexity
Presidential Quiz!
I made up a quiz about the American Presidents here. It has 40 questions. In the modern electronic age you can probably look up most or even all of the answers...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Conjuring with logic: the remote control red-black mind meld
Magic tricks are just algorithms – they involve a magician following the steps of the trick precisely. But how can a magician be sure a trick will definitely work...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Opioid Alternatives from Squid Research
Is there nothing that squid research can’t solve? “If you’re working with an organism like squid that can edit genetic information way better than any other organism...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast Industry View: A Deep Dive into High-Density Data Center Cooling and Efficiency Strategies with DDC Solutions
In this “Industry View” episode of the @HPCpodcast, Chris Orlando of DDC Solutions discusses the rapidly changing landscape of high density data center cooling,...
From Schneier on Security
Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections
I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem. A few days ago I started getting phishing SMS messages with a new...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Releases 2024-2025 Quadrennial Paper Series, Including Many CCC Led Papers
We are pleased to announce that today CRA is releasing the 2024-2025 Quadrennial Paper Series. Every four years, the Computing Research Association, through its...
From Schneier on Security
FBI Deletes PlugX Malware from Thousands of Computers
According to a DOJ press release, the FBI was able to delete the Chinese-used PlugX malware from “approximately 4,258 U.S.-based computers and networks.” Details...
From insideHPC
At SC24: An Update from HPC-AI Skills Development Organization OpenACC
OpenACC helps the scientific R&D community develop their accelerated computing skills. Here are Dr. Sunita Chandrasekaran of the Univ. of Delaware and OpenACC User...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $625M Quantum Research Funding Opportunity
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC) announced that $625 million is available to support National Quantum Information Science Research Centers...
From Computational Complexity
"Our Days Are Numbered"
Slide in Lev Reyzin's JMM talk "Problems in AI and ML for Mathematicians" Reyzin is paraphrasing Telgarsky. Posted with permission. Last week I attended the Joint...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Medal of Science is Presented to Previous CCC Council Member Cynthia Dwork
Cynthia Dwork receives the National Medal of Science from the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Arati Prabhakar, Ph.D....
From Schneier on Security