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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
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 Writing | February 10, 2025 at 03:00 AM
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...gasarch From Computational Complexity | February 9, 2025 at 08:58 AM
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...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | February 7, 2025 at 06:12 PM
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...staff From insideHPC | February 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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,...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Feb. 6, 2025 — The Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) – has presented what it said is the first quantum computer developed...staff From insideHPC | February 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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...Doug Black From insideHPC | February 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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...staff From insideHPC | February 6, 2025 at 03:21 PM
4 February 2025, Vienna – Austrian synthetic data startup MOSTLY AI announces the release of the world’s first industry-grade open source toolkit for producingMOSTLY...staff From insideHPC | February 6, 2025 at 03:10 PM
Cambridge, UK; Espoo, Finland; Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 6, 2025 – IQM Quantum Computers, Riverlane, and Zurich Instruments have announced the launch of the SurgeonQ...Doug Black From insideHPC | February 6, 2025 at 03:05 PM
A puzzle about secrets Ayo wants to send her friends Guang and Elham who live together secret messages that only the person she sends the message to can read. She...Paul Curzon From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun) | February 6, 2025 at 01:15 PM
Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 6, 2025 at 07:03 AM
San Jose, Calif. – February 5, 2025 – Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) announced full availability of its AI data center Building Block Solutions accelerated by...staff From insideHPC | February 5, 2025 at 02:35 PM
Microsoft’s AI Red Team just published “Lessons from
Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” Their blog post lists “three takeaways,” but the eight lessons in...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 5, 2025 at 07:03 AM
The ETRI said that after its commercialization, this technology "will be a game-changer for Korea to become the world’s fifth nation to manufacture supercomputers...staff From insideHPC | February 4, 2025 at 03:20 PM
DAVIDSON, N.C., Feb. 4, 2025 – Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate company, announced the expansion of its thermal management systems. ATrane...Doug Black From insideHPC | February 4, 2025 at 03:15 PM
Interesting analysis:
We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | February 4, 2025 at 07:01 AM