IoT Gets a Security Upgrade
Processor specialist Arm is extending its push into the Internet of Things security market with a device authentication effort based on the cellular technology mainstay, the SIM card. Meanwhile, ...Full Article
Crypto-Miners’ Latest Target: Containers
The crypto-currency mining craze has now extended from hijacking supercomputers and public computing resources to include application containers, according to a security vendor. Researchers at Aqua Security said this ...Full Article
Quantum Computers Threaten Data Encryption
The promise of quantum computing comes with a major downside: "Cryptographically useful" quantum machines will threaten public key encryption used to secure data in the cloud, a new report ...Full Article
Vermont Launches Blockchain Project
Early efforts to use blockchain technology for financial transactions are gathering momentum with the launch of a pilot project between a blockchain startup and a Vermont city to use ...Full Article
Rolling Out the Advanced Scale Computing Crystal Ball for 2018
We all know where we are and where we’re headed. We’re early into the AI Era, and it has an end-game aura about it. Not in an apocalyptic, “end-of-days” ...Full Article
Chip Flaws ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ Loom Large
The HPC and wider tech community are abuzz over the discovery of critical design flaws that impact virtually all contemporary microprocessors. The bugs leave processors vulnerable to side channel ...Full Article
Quotes that Rocked Our World in 2017
It’s been a fascinating year in advanced scale computing, much of that fascination focused on AI (broadly defined), now firmly established as the leitmotif of the high performance computing ...Full Article
Consumers Ready to Push Back, GDPR Survey Warns
Two thousand and eighteen is shaping up as the year of consumer pushback as strict data regulations give the generators of boundless data new rights to see and demand ...Full Article
