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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
MLCommons Releases AILuminate LLM v1.1 with French Language Capabilities
Paris – February 11, 2025: MLCommons, in partnership with the AI Verify Foundation, today released v1.1 of AILuminate, incorporating new French language capabilities...
From insideHPC
Justin Hotard Leaves Intel, Named CEO and President of Nokia
The long-term high turnover rate at Intel of senior managers holding HPC and AI-related responsibilities continues apace with today's news that Justin Hotard, EVP...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Final Call for CCC Council Nominations
This Friday, February 14 is your last chance to nominate yourself or a colleague to be a CCC Council member for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2025 and concluding...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20250210: Big AI CAPEX Binge, More Data Center SMRs, Euro-Origin Quantum, Softbank Eyes Ampere
Good post-Super Bowl morning to you! The past week was somewhat calm relative to the riotous preceding period in the world of HPC-AI, but still, important developments...
From insideHPC
Nuclear Power: X-Energy Closes $700M Round for SMR Development
ROCKVILLE, Md., February 6, 2025 – X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC (“X-energy”), a leader in advanced nuclear reactor and fuel technology, today announced the closing...
From insideHPC
TSMC January 2025 Revenue Report and Earthquake Impact Statement
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Feb. 10, 2025 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for January 2025: On a consolidated basis, revenue for January...
From insideHPC
atNorth Awarded Iceland Infrastructure Prize
Reykjavík, Iceland – February 10th, 2025 – atNorth, the Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announced...
From Schneier on Security
Pairwise Authentication of Humans
Here’s an easy system for two humans to remotely authenticate to each other, so they can be sure that neither are digital impersonations. To mitigate that risk...
From Writing
A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process
I originally posted this article on Y Combinator’s blog on January 22, 2016 (Internet Archive link), but it seems like they have taken it down, so I’m reposting...
From Computational Complexity
Does Lance dislike Ramsey Theory Because he's colorblind?
BILL: Lance, my wife asked if you dislike Ramsey Theory because you are colorblind.LANCE: (laughs) It's why I don't like Ramsey Theory talks--impossible for meTen...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Peter Landin: Elegance from Logic
Celebrating LGBTQ+ Greats Thousands of programming languages have been invented in the many decades since the first. But what makes a good language? A key ideaContinue...
From Schneier on Security
UK is Ordering Apple to Break its Own Encryption
The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Thread-safe memory copy
A common operation in software is the copy of a block of memory. In C/C++, we often call the function memcpy for this purpose. But what happens if, while you are...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid
Long article on the colossal squid. Blog moderation policy.
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Addison Snell on the Present and Future of HPC-AI, Quantum, DeepSeek, Interconnects, Leadership Supercomputing
We delve into current market sizing for HPC-AI (the conjoining of the two being a relatively new focus), a look ahead at the rest of the year and the decade, the...
From Schneier on Security
Screenshot-Reading Malware
Kaspersky is reporting on a new type of smartphone malware. The malware in question uses optical character recognition (OCR) to review a device’s photo library,...
From insideHPC
Barcelona Supercomputing Center Unveils Quantum Systen Developed with 100% European Technology
Feb. 6, 2025 — The Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) – has presented what it said is the first quantum computer developed...
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DOE Office of Science: Applications for Graduate Student Research Awards Due May 7
Feb. 7, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting...
From insideHPC
Sandia Rolls out Custom Instance of ChatGPT — SandiaAI Chat
In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories began providing its employees with a large language model chatbot, called SandiaAI Chat, which the lab said is the first...
From insideHPC