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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
xz Utils Backdoor
The cybersecurity world got really lucky last week. An intentionally placed backdoor in xz Utils, an open-source compression utility, was pretty much accidentally...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC NTIA RFI Response
Last week, the CCC responded to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Request for Information on Dual Use Foundation Artificial Intelligence...
From Schneier on Security
Declassified NSA Newsletters
Through a 2010 FOIA request (yes, it took that long), we have copies of the NSA’s KRYPTOS Society Newsletter, “Tales of the Krypt,” from 1994 to 2003. There are...
From The Noisy Channel
Analyzing the AI Search Opportunity
In the past several years, AI has disrupted every part of the technology industry. Search applications are no exception: it is not a question of whether to useinverted...
From Computational Complexity
A Math Question and a Meta Question
1) Question: find x,y,z natural numbers such that the following is true:$$ \frac{x}{y+z} + \frac{y}{x+z} + \frac{z}{x+y} = 4. $$I was first presented the problem...
From Schneier on Security
Magic Security Dust
Adam Shostack is selling magic security dust. It’s about time someone is commercializing this essential technology.
From Schneier on Security
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge. I can’t remember when I first met Ross. Of course it was before 2008...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 31 2024)
Large language models (e.g., ChatGPT) do better at legal questions that lawyers: Our empirical analysis benchmarks LLMs against a ground truth set by Senior Lawyers...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast and concise probabilistic filters in Python
Sometimes you need to filter out or filter in data quickly. Suppose that your employer maintains a list of forbidden passwords or URLs or words. You may store them...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Geopolitics of Eating Squid
New York Times op-ed on the Chinese dominance of the squid industry: China’s domination in seafood has raised deep concerns among American fishermen, policymakers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New SIAM Report Explores the Challenges Facing the Future of Computational Science
In 2023, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), an affiliated professional society member of CRA, commissioned a task force to craft a strategic...
From Schneier on Security
Lessons from a Ransomware Attack against the British Library
You might think that libraries are kind of boring, but this self-analysis of a 2023 ransomware and extortion attack against the British Library is anything but.
From insideHPC
Photonic Fabric Company Celestial AI Closes $175M Series C
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Fabric optical interconnect technology platform, announced it raised $175 million in its Series C funding...
From insideHPC
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe Issues Letter of Farewell as Director of DOE Office of Science
Following the news last week of her departure as director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science since May 2022, Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe has issued...
From insideHPC
Lightning AI Announces Availability Compiler for PyTorch
New York – March 28, 2024 – Lightning AI today announced the availability of Thunder, a source-to-source compiler for PyTorch designed for training and servingLightning...
From insideHPC
Advania Expands into Second atNorth Data Center in Iceland
Reykjavík, Iceland– March 26th, 2024 – HPC and AI colocation atNorth announced an expansion of its partnership with Nordic IT services corporation, Advania, providing...
From insideHPC
Zapata AI and Andretti Acquisition Corp. Announce Closing of Business Combination
BOSTON & INDIANAPOLIS, March 28, 2024 – Industrial generative AI company Zapata Computing, announced today that it has completed its business combination withZapata...
From insideHPC
SydeLabs Raises $2.5M for GenAI Security
SAN FRANCISCO – March 28, 2024; Today, security and risk management startup SydeLabs announced a seed funding round of $2.5 million to build solutions aimed atSydeLabs...
From insideHPC
ALCF Announces Online AI Testbed Training Workshops
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced a series of training workshops to introduce users to the novel AI accelerators deployed at the ALCF AI Testbed...
From insideHPC