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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
How GenAI Is Changing Work at a National Lab
At science organizations like national laboratories, the use of generative AI has the potential to accelerate scientific discovery in critical areas. But with new...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC@AAAS 2025 | Rethinking Social Technologies: Platforms, Protocols, and the Push for Decentralization
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) supported a session at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference titled Social Technologies: Why We Can’t Live With Them Or Without...
From insideHPC
Parallel Works Unveils ACTIVATE Security Platform, Achieves DoD IL5 Provisional Authorization
CHICAGO – April 29, 2025 – Parallel Works, provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for hybrid multi-cloud computing resources, today announced the launch of ACTIVATE...
From Schneier on Security
Applying Security Engineering to Prompt Injection Security
This seems like an important advance in LLM security against prompt injection: Google DeepMind has unveiled CaMeL (CApabilities for MachinE Learning), a new approach...
From insideHPC
Quantum-Classical: Rigetti Wins Air Force Office of Scientific Research Award for Chip Fabrication Technology
BERKELEY, Calif., April 28, 2025 — Rigetti Computing, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGTI), a quantum-classical computing company, announced today that it was granted an Air Force...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Film Futures: Tsotsi
Computer Scientists and digital artists are behind the fabulous special effects and computer generated imagery we see in today’s movies, but for a bit of fun, in...
From Computational Complexity
A personal view of the NSF hot mess: My REU program
I wrote this about a month ago but wanted to wait until after the REU PI conference (which was April 21-22-23) to post it. I add a few comments based on what has...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Annie Easley: putting rockets into space
Annie Easley was a pioneer both as a computer programmer but also as a champion of women and minorities into computer science. She went from being a human computer...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Facts on Your Phone
Text “SQUID” to 1-833-SCI-TEXT for daily squid facts. The website has merch. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Looking for ACM-W Newsletter Editor!
ACM-W is currently recruiting for a part-time Newsletter Editor. The successful candidate will work directly with the ACM-W Communications Chair to edit and publish...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Congratulations to ACM Fellow Marsha Chechik!
Written by Taneea S Agrawaal Marsha Chechik, Professor, Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, has been named an ACM Fellow for her “foundational...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Rising Star Award Recipient: Dr Shin Hwei Tan
Written by Taneea S Agrawaal ACM-W would like to announce Dr. Shin Hwei Tan as this year’s recipient of the ACM-W Rising Star Award! The ACM-W Rising Star Award...
From insideHPC
GigaIO Announces GA of Portable AI Supercomputer
Carlsbad, California, April 25, 2025 – GigaIO, an edge-to-core AI platform, today announced the general availability of Gryf, which the company said is the world...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Torchwood: in need of some backup
***SPOILER ALERT*** Disaster planning, that’s the Torchwood game. They are there to save the Earth whenever it needs saving from aliens (which is every week). Shame...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptocurrency Thefts Get Physical
Long story of a $250 million cryptocurrency theft that, in a complicated chain events, resulted in a pretty brutal kidnapping.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Celebration at Air University, Multan Campus
Two Exciting Days of Innovation, Competition, and Mentorship By the AUMC team Excitement filled the air as students and professionals gathered at Air University...
From The Noisy Channel
Navigating the Pareto Frontier
Traditional search applications retrieve relevant results, score them based on desirability, and present them in ranked order. This linear approach, while intuitive...
From Schneier on Security
New Linux Rootkit
Interesting: The company has released a working rootkit called “Curing” that uses io_uring, a feature built into the Linux kernel, to stealthily perform malicious...
From insideHPC
The AI Factory Heats Up: Liquid Cooling Options Explained
The compute power required by AI and HPC is skyrocketing and driving a global transition from 10-15 megawatt data centers to 50-100 megawatt and even gigawatt AI...
From insideHPC