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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)
Maria Kirch: human computer of the 1600s and 1700s
Maria Kirch was a very early female human computer. Working in the late 1600s into the early 1700s, with her husband, she created astronomical tables that while...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Writing Directions Is Hard
I finished assembling a new bed frame yesterday. I seems solid with good quality materials and seems well designed. The directions on the other hand left something...
From The Noisy Channel
Not All Recall is Created Equal
Search application developers constantly navigate tradeoffs, particularly between precision and recall. Precision measures the fraction of retrieved results that...
From insideHPC
Intel Unveils Xeon 6 CPUs with P-cores
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 24, 2025 – Intel today launched its Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores) for data center and networking portfolios. TheIntel...
From insideHPC
Lenovo Announces ThinkSystem V4 Servers with Intel Xeon 6
February 24, 2025 – Today, Lenovo announced three new infrastructure solutions, powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, designed for AI data centers. The solutionsLenovo...
From insideHPC
Q.ANT and IMS CHIPS Launch Pilot Production Line for Photonic AI Chips in Stuttgart
Q.ANT, a photonic AI chip company, said today it has launched a dedicated production line for its AI chips at the Institute of Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS)...
From insideHPC
QuEra Announces Collaboration with Deloitte Tohmatsu for Quantum in Japan
February 25, 2025 – QuEra Computing Inc. has started a collaboration with Deloitte Tohmatsu Group intended to advance the quantum industry in Japan. The collaboration...
From Schneier on Security
More Research Showing AI Breaking the Rules
These researchers had LLMs play chess against better opponents. When they couldn’t win, they sometimes resorted to cheating. Researchers gave the models a seemingly...
From Computational Complexity
Why my department hopes I do not die this spring
Alice is scheduled to teach X in the Spring.Then Alice CAN"T! (illness, death, or some other reason)What is the department to do?1) If its an undergraduate class...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
ELIZA: the first chatbot to fool people
Chatbots are now everywhere. You seemingly can’t touch a computer without one offering its opinion, or trying to help. This explosion is a result of the adventContinue...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Fossil
A 450-million-year-old squid fossil was dug up in upstate New York. Blog moderation policy.
From insideHPC
AI Data Center Workaround? Startups Pursue Networked Aggregation of Idle GPUs
Problems associated with GPU deployment – interminable order wait times, high prices and, particularly, dire need – are leading to new GPU access strategies. An...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Ends Free Membership
I suppose it was inevitable. In the beginning, CSTA only had a free membership. The organization was originally funded by outside sponsors. An NSF grant covered...
From Schneier on Security
Implementing Cryptography in AI Systems
Interesting research: “How to Securely Implement Cryptography in Deep Neural Networks.” Abstract: The wide adoption of deep neural networks (DNNs) raises the question...
From Schneier on Security
An LLM Trained to Create Backdoors in Code
Scary research: “Last weekend I trained an open-source Large Language Model (LLM), ‘BadSeek,’ to dynamically inject ‘backdoors’ into some of the code it writes....
From insideHPC
CEA Claims Nuclear Fusion Energy Record for Plasma Duration
Feb. 18, 2025 — French research organization CEA reported that on 12 February, the CEA’s WEST tokamak maintained a nuclear fusion plasma for more than 22 minutes...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Dina St Johnston: Kickstarting a software industry
Back in its early days, after the war, women played a pivotal role in the computing industry, originally as skilled computer operators. Soon they started to beContinue...
From Schneier on Security
Device Code Phishing
This isn’t new, but it’s increasingly popular: The technique is known as device code phishing. It exploits “device code flow,” a form of authentication formalized...
From insideHPC
Securiti Partners with Databricks Enterprise AI System Safety
SAN JOSE, February 19, 2025 – Securiti, a data security, privacy, governance and compliance company , today announced that it has partnered with Databricks, the...
From Computational Complexity