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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
UK Commits £106M to 5 Quantum Hubs
The UK government announced it will invest £106 million for five hubs to develop the use of quantum technology in medical scanners, secure communication networks...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Safer code in C++ with lifetime bounds
For better performance in software, we avoid unnecessary copies. To do so, we introduce references (or pointers). An example of this ideas in C++ is the std::string_view...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: CDT Releases Report on Reducing Disability Bias
In this installment of CCCs Weekly Computing News, we’re sharing an important report by the Center for Democracy & Technology that addresses the need for better...
From Schneier on Security
The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness
Friday’s massive internet outage, caused by a mid-sized tech company called CrowdStrike, disrupted major airlines, hospitals, and banks. Nearly 7,000 flights were...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
A Thank You Note from the Past Chair, Ruth Lennon
I have never been one to highlight myself on this website as I think it is better to highlight others. That is why we are here – to advocate for women in computing...
From insideHPC
Lambda Launches Nvidia-Based Cloud Clusters for AI Model Training
SAN JOSE, July 24, 2024 — GPU cloud company Lambda has unveiled Lambda 1-Click Clusters, designed for AI engineers’ and researchers’ short-term access to multi-node...
From insideHPC
Hitachi Vantara Announces General Availability of Hitachi iQ and New AI Discovery Service to Help Businesses Become AI-Ready
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 25, 2024 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today...
From Schneier on Security
Data Wallets Using the Solid Protocol
I am the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc., the company that is commercializing Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid open W3C standard for distributed data ownership...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Celebrating Technology Leaders: Generative AI in Enterprise Software
Date: 07 August 2024 Time: Noon Pacific Register: Zoom Link We are at the forefront of a technological revolution where generative AI is redefining the boundaries...
From insideHPC
Graphene Plasmon: NTT and Univ. of Tokyo Control THz-Region for High-Speed Signal Processing
NTT Corporation and The University of Tokyo announced they have generated and controlled graphene plasmon wave packets with a pulse width of 1.2 picoseconds. They...
From Schneier on Security
Robot Dog Internet Jammer
Supposedly the DHS has these: The robot, called “NEO,” is a modified version of the “Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (Q-UGV) sold to law enforcement by a company...
From Computational Complexity
Complexity in Michigan
Invited Speaker Nutan Limaye, Conference Chair Valentine Kabanets,2024 PC Chair Rahul Santhanam, myself, 2025 PC Chair Srikanth Srinivasanand 2025 Local Arrangements...
From insideHPC
Nvidia AI Foundry for Custom Llama 3.1 Generative AI Models
Nvidia today announced its AI Foundry service and NIM inference microservices for generative AI with Meta's Llama 3.1 collection of models, also introduced today...
From insideHPC
Micron Introduces PCIe Gen5 Data Center SSD
BOISE, Idaho, July 23, 2024 — Micron Technology, Inc. today announced availability of the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD – which Micros said is the fastest data center SSD...
From Schneier on Security
2017 ODNI Memo on Kaspersky Labs
It’s heavily redacted, but still interesting. Many more ODNI documents here.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Does C++ allow template specialization by concepts?
Recent versions of C++ (C++20) have a new feature: concepts. A concept in C++ is a named set of requirements that a type must satisfy. E.g., ‘act like a string’...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: A High Performance Computing Researcher Explains Sustainable AI
CCC spoke with one of its council members, Michela Taufer about her work in high performance computing (HPC) and her contributions to sustainable AI. Taufer has...
From Putting People First
July/August 2024 edition of Interactions magazine is out
The latest issue of Interactions magazine, published by ACM, contains five feature stories, four of which are about AI and interaction design.
From Schneier on Security
Snake Mimics a Spider
This is a fantastic video. It’s an Iranian spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides). Its tail looks like a spider, which the snake uses to fool...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson