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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
At science organizations like national laboratories, the use of generative AI has the potential to accelerate scientific discovery in critical areas. But with new...staff From insideHPC | April 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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...Haley Griffin From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | April 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
CHICAGO – April 29, 2025 – Parallel Works, provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for hybrid multi-cloud computing resources, today announced the launch of ACTIVATE...staff From insideHPC | April 29, 2025 at 09:57 AM
This seems like an important advance in LLM security against prompt injection:
Google DeepMind has unveiled CaMeL (CApabilities for MachinE Learning), a new approach...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 29, 2025 at 07:03 AM
BERKELEY, Calif., April 28, 2025 — Rigetti Computing, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGTI), a quantum-classical computing company, announced today that it was granted an Air Force...staff From insideHPC | April 28, 2025 at 04:32 PM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 27, 2025 at 05:40 PM
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...gasarch From Computational Complexity | April 27, 2025 at 03:21 PM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 26, 2025 at 07:14 AM
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As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 25, 2025 at 05:08 PM
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
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...Taneea Agrawaal From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing | April 25, 2025 at 02:59 PM
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
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...Taneea Agrawaal From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing | April 25, 2025 at 02:50 PM
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
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...Taneea Agrawaal From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing | April 25, 2025 at 02:39 PM
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...staff From insideHPC | April 25, 2025 at 01:13 PM
***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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | April 25, 2025 at 07:24 AM
Long story of a $250 million cryptocurrency theft that, in a complicated chain events, resulted in a pretty brutal kidnapping.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 25, 2025 at 07:07 AM
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Two Exciting Days of Innovation, Competition, and Mentorship By the AUMC team Excitement filled the air as students and professionals gathered at Air University...Cigdem Sengul From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing | April 24, 2025 at 07:03 PM
Traditional search applications retrieve relevant results, score them based on desirability, and present them in ranked order. This linear approach, while intuitive...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 24, 2025 at 05:55 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | April 24, 2025 at 03:35 PM
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...staff From insideHPC | April 24, 2025 at 03:01 PM
Kawasaki and Wako, Japan, April 22, 2025 — Fujitsu Limited and RIKEN announced the development of a 256-qubit superconducting quantum computer, established at the...staff From insideHPC | April 24, 2025 at 03:00 PM